One Sentence Summary: Reading fast is a professional and personal asset, it is possible to improve your reading speed significantly by using various techniques and methods, like the use of guides (cards, fingers, pens…) or skimming, scanning and skipping … and plenty of others.
by Abby Marks Beale, 200 pages, published in 2001.
Summary and Book Report:
The first book of my personal challenge! It’s the first one on the PMBA list because it will supposedly increase our reading speed significantly. I am already a good reader with an average of 400 words per minute and a retention rate of almost 90%.
The author ranks readers in the following way:
| Words per minute | Reader Type |
| 100-200 | slow reader |
| 200-300 | average reader |
| 300-400 | good reader |
| 400-500 | excellent reader |
But do you know your reading speed? I can offer you a way to measure it: click on the "start" button below, and read the rest of this article at your normal reading speed. When you are done, click the "stop" button at the end of the article.