Words per minute

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Words per minute (commonly abbreviated as WPM and sometimes lowercased as wpm) is a measure of words processed in a minute, often used as a measurement of the speed of typing, reading or Morse code sending and receiving. The first researcher who took notice of differences in reading speed and extensively wrote on the matter was George Romanes, he went on to claim in his book Mental Evolution in Animals that he found readers who read four times as fast as others of, apparently the same intelligence.. Johann Joachim Quantz who came across his work, decided to write a study and went on to publicize his works, he made a distinction between very slow and very rapid readers. The former had a reading rate of 3.9 words per second (234 wpm), the latter a rate of 7.3 words per second (438 wpm). Moreover, he also noted that quickness of perception, with its large physiological element, is an important factor in deciding one's rate of reading and that speed reading ultimately results in a sacrifice (or exactness) of intelligence. He however attributed these findings to general intelligence, which would later become g Due to the fact that Quantz didn't publicize his methodology, Edmund B. Huey wrote a separate article on reading speed, and came up with a series of tests, where eleven pages, containing 405 words were selected from an interesting novel which would be read by the readers. Huey would then measure the time with a stopwatch and find that the average silent reading speed, using Huey's standardized method is 5.91 words per second (355 wpm), Auditory was at 5.12 (307 wpm) and reading aloud 3.55 words per second (213 wpm). The slowest reader had a segmental affection of the retina, which undoubtedly affected his speed. The next slowest reader was a Japanese student. Miles Tinker was the first psychologist to publish multiple articles on reading speed and reading comprehnesion, he used the Chapman-Cook Speed of Reading test.