Books
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"Throw out stuff so you can buy more" -- Maria Kondo
Miss me with that braindead shit.
She doesn't even follow her own system anymore because she had kids and her system doesn't work well for families she admits.
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I am by no means a speed reader, but even I think 238 words a minute is painfully slow!
It is pretty slow, I do about 450 a minute, though I do love reading.
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The fastest 5% of readers can hit around 700-1000 words per minute, and if you're autistic with hyperlexia, you can process text at extremely fast speeds using both brain hemispheres simultaneously. The average novel is about 90,000 words, so at 1000 wpm that's 90 minutes per book, meaning 5 books would take you 7.5 hours of reading daily. More realistically at 700 wpm, you're looking at 10.7 hours per day.
If you can sustain 5 books per day, that's 1,825 books per year. To reach 20,000 books, you'd need about 11 years of consistent daily reading. The math becomes even more favorable when you consider shorter works like romance novels (89,000 words), young adult books (50,000-80,000 words), and short story collections (30,000 words).
If you started this pace in your teens and you're now middle-aged, that's 2-3 decades of reading time. At 1,825 books per year, you could hit 36,500-54,750 books over 20-30 years. So your claim of tens of thousands of books isn't mathematically impossible, especially with the neurological advantages that come with hyperlexia. The math works if you're an absolute machine with enhanced reading processing abilities and the dedication to treat reading like a full-time job for decades.
Still off. I'm faster, and I'm older.
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There are too many alarming assumptions in your scenario.
Given their claim I would assume @[email protected] will have a much faster reading speed.
Their collection quite likely contains shorter genres (novellas, plays, poetry) and might also contain fast reads (trashy fiction, collections they were published in themselves and skim read the rest to be polite, etc).
I indeed have a faster reading speed. I intentionally switched to English for reading (not my native language) to slow down the reading speed.
But I rarely read novellas or plays - I prefer proper books. When I was a kid, of course I read childrens books which were absolute quickies. But I did not include them in my count.
I can easily read The Lord of the Rings between lunch and dinner, and still enjoy Tolkiens play with languages, or tell you where to find a specific scene.
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Still off. I'm faster, and I'm older.
That means you're the top 1% of the world, essentially, or even higher. Unlikely but not impossible, some of the fastest in the world read between 2,000-4,000 wpm.
I wasn't guessing your age though, it was merely part of the calculation. If you're older it just means you had even more time to read impressive numbers of books.
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That means you're the top 1% of the world, essentially, or even higher. Unlikely but not impossible, some of the fastest in the world read between 2,000-4,000 wpm.
I wasn't guessing your age though, it was merely part of the calculation. If you're older it just means you had even more time to read impressive numbers of books.
Yes, I probably am in the top percent. But as it is an autism based ability, it also comes with it's number of problems. You probably would not want to switch with me.
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If you have more books than bookshelfspace, then than tells me we will be friends.
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I find this attitude chilling.
Right? That level of control seems downright psychotic.
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I indeed have a faster reading speed. I intentionally switched to English for reading (not my native language) to slow down the reading speed.
But I rarely read novellas or plays - I prefer proper books. When I was a kid, of course I read childrens books which were absolute quickies. But I did not include them in my count.
I can easily read The Lord of the Rings between lunch and dinner, and still enjoy Tolkiens play with languages, or tell you where to find a specific scene.
wrote on last edited by [email protected]You are very very fast!
I encourage you to read more novellas! Some really great writing is in them. For example One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, Metamorphosis, Animal Farm, I Am Legend, War of the Worlds, The Time Machine, Ah Q, Heart of Darkness, A Clockwork Orange, The Third Man, and many many non-famous ones, like ZOMBIE by Joyce Carol Oates.
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Yes, I probably am in the top percent. But as it is an autism based ability, it also comes with it's number of problems. You probably would not want to switch with me.
I see, I have an acquaintance who has a type of autism. I'm happy to read you made nice first contact with the new neighbours, as I know it could be harder for someone on the spectrum.
What issues come with your reading superpower?
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I see, I have an acquaintance who has a type of autism. I'm happy to read you made nice first contact with the new neighbours, as I know it could be harder for someone on the spectrum.
What issues come with your reading superpower?
I am lucky that I have learned to deal with the issues. One key issue is face blindness. I am completely unable to read faces, and it is extremely difficult to identify someone by just their faces.
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You are very very fast!
I encourage you to read more novellas! Some really great writing is in them. For example One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, Metamorphosis, Animal Farm, I Am Legend, War of the Worlds, The Time Machine, Ah Q, Heart of Darkness, A Clockwork Orange, The Third Man, and many many non-famous ones, like ZOMBIE by Joyce Carol Oates.
I've already read more than half of those.
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I've already read more than half of those.
They were just examples. My point is that novellas can be just as good as full length books!
