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[active_apathy]

A secret project is afoot! Well... partly secret. Now, for this Secret Project to work, I'm going to need a little bit of information from you, the people who read my entries. So, go and Google for a reading speed test, take it, and tell me:

[Poll #552089]

The sooner I get this information, the sooner I can start posting bits of the Secret Project, making it rather less secret and rather more fun. liadlaith, lesslikeyou and daphyn, I have electronic evidence of your excitement over the Secret Project. If you don't answer, I'm going to tickle you mercilessly.

And now that we've gotten past that bit, I have some non-sneaky research. Everyone who was interested in <lj-rp> seems to rather like sci-fi, and FATE came out rather a bit ahead of everything else. Now comes the time to find out just what kind of sci-fi you'd like, and what other genres you might be interested in throwing in with it. There's no poll for that bit, just a bit of a conversation in comments.

Comments

[active-apathy.livejournal.com]

You are worthy, so none of that. Not to mention that speed is further affected by whether it's a CRT or LCD monitor, monitor settings (esp. brightness and contrast), the background, the text colour, the text formatting, the font face (esp. serif vs sans-serif font), font weight (bold text is harder to read), column width and text alignment (justified is best, flush left next) all play their little part.

If you want to, you can try again with paper and a clock*, and then change your answer to how fast you read things that interest you. Or you could try a different online one, since they tend to give different results.

*There's two fairly easy ways to go about this. One is to time how long it takes to read a page in a book, then counting up the words and dividing to find words per minute. The other is to time a minute (or more, for a more accurate result), take note of start and end points, and then count all the words.

[one-bullet-left.livejournal.com]

500. That's with squinty, been-up-too long, no-glasses eyes, but dammit, it's a better score than on the computer. So ha. I still maintain that I usually read a lot faster than that, but I'm not about to mess with it.

[active-apathy.livejournal.com]

Ha indeed! It'll be posted here, so it should be nice and readable.

And I'll try to make it interesting.