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How Fast Can You Read?

2008-09-05 17:30:39 | ウエブサイト
How fast can you read? An average university student in America can read about 250-350 words per minute (1分間に250-350単語). It's difficult to read fast in a foreign language, but you can learn to read faster with training. I found a useful homepage that helps you to read faster. It's called Spreeder.com.

You can enter in some text by cutting and pasting (コピー・アンド・ペーストする), and then practice reading it on the homepage.
When you enter the homepage, you will see a window like this. Just paste your text in the box:

Next, push the "s" key for the settings (設定). You can choose the speed (maybe 100 is good at first) and the number of words (the "chunk size").
Click the "save" command, and you're ready to start practicing! I think if you read some text with Spreeder every day, you could really improve your speed.