What's Your Reading Speed?

• The average person in business reads no faster than people did 100 years ago.
• The average reading speed is 200 – 250 words a minute in non-technical material – roughly 2 minutes per page.
• In technical material, the average reading rate is approx 50 – 75 words a minute – roughly 5 – 6 minutes per page.
• Total information is doubling every 9 months.
• Therefore we have to process information faster and faster just to maintain our existing knowledge level.
• 360 000 new titles are published each year in the English language alone.
• However, the average American college graduate only reads 5 books in his/her post-college lifetime.
• We therefore end up knowing more and more about less, and less and less about just about everything else.

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