18 Interesting Facts About Reading

1. While reading, the eyes look in different directions.

2. When reading, almost 50% of the time, a person's eyes look at different letters. At the same time, the lines of sight can both diverge in different directions and cross.

3. 95% of people read very slowly – 180-220 words per minute (1 page in 1.5-2 minutes).

4. With fast reading, eye fatigue is less than with slow reading.

5. The level of comprehension in traditional reading is 60%, in fast reading - 80%.

6. For an hour, the eyes of the reader are fixed on the text for 57 minutes, that is, they are in relative rest.

7. When reading, the eyes of the reader, looking at different letters, convey different images, but the brain still combines them into one picture.

8. The eyes of a person with average reading skills make 12-16 stops on one book line, and those who read quickly make 4-2 stops.

9. Traditionally, the volume of simultaneous fixation of a reading person is 10 printed characters (that is, 1.5-2 words of one line). A fast reader has 200-500 characters (this is 33-83 words of several lines).

10. With slow reading, there are 0.5-0.7 unjustified returns to what has been read per line.

11. Schoolchildren have 20 regressive movements per line, students have 15.

12. In traditional reading, 1/6 of the time spent on regressive eye movements is lost.

13. Napoleon read at a speed of two thousand words per minute.

14. Balzac read a novel of two hundred pages in half an hour.

15. M. Gorky read at a speed of four thousand words per minute.

16. N. A. Rubakin read 250 thousand books.

17. A certain E. Gaon literally remembered 2500 books he read.

18. T. Edison read 2-3 lines at once, memorizing the text for almost pages thanks to maximum concentration.