Do you speed read?

I've been a naturally very fast reader since childhood. I do read every word but can also skim through something like a boring work-related paper very quickly and take it all in and summarise it if need be. I went on a speed-reading workshop through work once and realised that the techniques they taught us were what I was already doing naturally (not for enjoyable books but for the boring necessary stuff).

My daughter is 7 and also seems to be a very fast reader, she gets through a chapter book in no time. For a while we thought she was just skipping to the end until we asked her a few questions about the plot and realised she had taken in every word.

@Pedalpushers I think I’m like you, you’ve explained it really well

I speed read but do read every word afaik I taught myself to read at 2 and read books - the hobbit etc in infants i read as a pp by taking in an entire chunk in one go

It takes about 2 hrs for a novel and I scroll so fast through threads on here or Twitter

I've read 10 books so far this year. I do sometimes glaze over bits where I'm bored but I'm an exceptionally quick reader, my DH suggests my brain takes in whole sentences at a time as opposed to words. Whenever we are reading something at the same time he seems excruciatingly slow. Say there is a meme which is two lines of text and a picture, he will have to read it whereas I take it all in at once and know instantly what it says, if that makes sense? Whereas if he shows me something on his phone and doesn't keep his hand still, I can't comprehend a single word.

I’m a fast reader but do read every word. Over 100 books a year usually. Mostly from the library obviously! The one thing I would say though is that I don’t retain memory about a book unless I’ve read it multiple times. I can re-read murder mysteries a couple of times for example as I can never remember whodunnit! DH reads much slower than me but retains detailed knowledge about each book.

I read quickly but I don't absorb. I enjoy re-reading books and picking up everything I missed first time around.

About 80% of the books I read are library books because it would be too expensive to be constantly buying new books.

I don't skip bits but I do read very quickly and usually get through about 50 books a year. I don't remember learning to read and was reading Famous Five books when I was 5 so I agree with @mumsiedarlingrevolta about people having their own base speed.

I read every word but I also read more than 50 books a year.

It's a pain because a new book comes out that you've been waiting years for & later that day it's done & you are back to waiting years for the next book.

I do go back & read favourites again, usually with a gap of a few years between readings & find that as I change over time I sometimes see different things in books, not because I missed them first time round but because I saw things differently at the time I read them, or have had experiences between reading that have changed my attitudes to things.

I envy slower readers because reading so fast is expensive.

I also find that if I try to read slower my mind wanders from the story rather than enjoying it.
Like trying to enjoy a film if you play it in slow motion the whole way through, for me it doesn't work.

I don't skip, I'm just naturally a very fast reader as was my mum and nan. Normal novels take me 1.5-2 hours for context

I do speed read - I unconsciously developed the skill when I was little (my mum taught me to read early) and I wanted to find out what happened at the end of a story because I was impatient.

It’s a pain in the bum. I have to really concentrate to read at a normal pace to savour the choice of words otherwise I’d just zip through to the end. I’d know the story, and what happened at the conclusion, but I’d miss out on all the little nuances.

I am naturally a very fast reader-I can remember being a small child at school when we often shared books with the person sitting beside us and no one wanted to share because I turned the pages too fast.

I think you can get faster but it's like anything that you start from your own natural base if that makes sense?