Staples came up with this awesome marketing gimmick that tests the speed at which you read and then compares your results to the rest of the population. Reading comprehension is also an important part of this quiz, as you are asked some questions after reading the excerpt.
The results are SUPER cool. You are given an average words per minute score and then this is transformed to indicate how much better or worse you are than the national average (percent-wise). Based on your results, you are then placed on a spectrum of reading abilities ranging from a 3rd grade student reading level (150 words per minute) to the World Speed Reading Champion (4700 words per minute.)
THEN, based on your score, you can see how long it would take you to read some of the classics, like Tolstoy’s War and Peace. For me, it would take just over 21 hours of straight reading to finish War and Peace based on my score.
The marketing gimmick kicks in at the end where the quiz provides a breakdown of how each of the biggest e-readers on the market would perform for you based on your reading score.
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