KleinerKiller wrote:I got 394 wpm, 91% comprehension.
I'm fairly certain I'm a faster reader in general, but loads of numbers and stats packed in close succession trips me up, and reading about reading as presented is less than engaging. Thus, some of the answers in the comprehension test that had to do with the numbers were lucky guesses.
I too, actually got 91%. But one of the answers was also a lucky guess, so I retook it with the wrong answer deliberately on that one for my actual answer. OTOH, there were two questions I didn't understand, even after re-reading it the second time, including the one I guessed at.
I took several other of these reading reading speed tests, getting numbers between 450 and about 900, but never above 700 for texts longer than two paragraphs. In the process I learned that if I see a number, it is important. I also learned that while I remember most numbers without trying, this is only if there is less than one number a paragraph and none of them are dates. For some reason I am
really bad at dates, and at least three numbers in one paragraph means I will probably forget at least one unless I pause reading and deliberately commit each number to memory.
Interestingly, while I can still remember several of the numbers from longer form reading test articles I read yesterday (which had only one number per paragraph), I cannot remember any of the ones where I committed them to memory. It seems like when I read, I may fix information in my long-term memory under certain conditions without trying, but if I have to commit information I wouldn't otherwise remember to my short-term memory, it doesn't take.
And I still have no idea why dates are so hard for me. I have autism. There is only one kind of date I should be messing up, and it's not this one.