I was just under two minutes and I'd have added the following by memory: - Spanish readers are faster than English - A key reason for the discrepancy between

I was just under two minutes and I'd have added the following by memory: - Spanish readers are faster than English - A key reason for the discrepancy between previously measured reading speeds and the new results is recreational vs test-style assessment. Basically it sounds like people read faster when they are being assessed on their reading. - It should take about 2 minutes and 30 seconds to finish reading the article. And then doing a 30 second skim a second time I would have added the following: - Reading speed depends on if the text is long or short. Shorter text can be much slower. - Reading speed declines with age. A third skim and I'd add: - this is important for assessors, who shouldn't expect everyone to read at 300wpm. Looking back and comparing my notes across the three reads I actually remember recognizing each one of those points the first time through, but I didn't reliably remember them all after each run. I almost think this might have more to do with the way that memory works than the way reading works.