


You’re saving one-third of a year! In monetary terms, assuming the average wage is $20 per hour, you’d be saving $61,920. If you read 1 book at 4.5 hours per month but could read that book in 90 minutes, this equates to a 3-hour opportunity cost.Įxtrapolated over a single year, that’s 36 hours of saved time and in the average lifetime (86 years), that’s 3096 hours or 129 days. It sounds like a trivial improvement to your life but let’s look at the stats… You need to be pot-committed to pushing your speed-reading skills forward. When following the methods described in this article, you could easily increase your reading efficiency by 300%. So, let’s focus on getting from 200 to 600 words per minute. It’s easier to get from 200 WPM to 600 WPM than it is to get from 600 to 1000 words per minute.I myself can’t read at 1000 words per minute.However, there are two reasons it’s not the best idea: I could try to teach you all to read at 1000 words per minute. The best speed readers can reach 1000 words per minute which equates to approximately 55 minutes to read a 200-page book. That’s about 4.5 hours to read a 200-page book (55,000 words).īy increasing your reading speed to 600 words/ minute, you could read a 200-page book in 90 minutes. THE AVERAGE READER can read a book at 200 words per minute (WPM).
