On average I can knock out 100 pages an hour.  Banned for not living up to my example.

-Twilight Storm

Banned because I took the liberty of formatting that novel I'm writing to the exact size, margins, and font of a paperback book, and it came out to about 420 pages, at a little over two thirds completion.

Banned for leaving out some pages.

I can read up to 500 pages an hour, if the book is interesting and the type is relatively large.

And dense books with tiny text, (Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad, for example) I can read about 100 pages an hour, give or take 10 or 20.

I average out at about 250 pages an hour. My mother wonders how in the world I remember anything I read.

As always, banned for KEEPING THIS FRICKIN' THREAD ALIVE.

Banned for insinuating that you want this thread to die.

Banned because mods don't like active forums. Think of each active forum topic as another piece of paperwork in a mod's intray.

That's why they don't like forum games.

That or this is a load of bull I came up with off the top of my head.

Banned for making things up.

They have a place for your kinds of people, you know.

Banned because how do you know I'm not already there?

Banned because that place is England, and you can't possibly be...wait... OH NO!!!! IT'S THE END OF THE WORLD!!!!

Just. As. Planned.

And you're banned.

Banned for being afraid of the end. To answer your question last page; my skills are limited but I first worked in retail and then went on to serve in the USAF in Signals Communication Intelligence. Anyone who tells you that military service looks good enough on paper to get you hired more quickly is dead wrong or a liar. England is banned for calling cookies "biscuits" and biscuits "crumpets".

Banned because England is all for the laughs.

People who live there have all kinds of staphs.

Rhyming?

Why must they call them crumpets?

If they really taste kinda like trumpets.

Banned for trumpeting it.

KrdaxDrkrun banned for tempting the wrath of Limey Man...May god have mercy on your...nah, throw the book god, he asked for it. 

-Twilight Storm

banned for being scared of a lime  man.

*Backs away while pointing at danielost*

"He said it."

-Twilight Storm

Banned for apparent fear of lime. Lime brings good things to life; key lime pie, margaritas, pad thai, the ninth boy at a nine-boy curry...

banned for listing things.

Aside from the fact that I am well aware of how crappy a time vets have getting a job (sorry, man), I also know I read slow as shit. It's not that I have some 'disability', I just tend to picture things and thus move in a realtime fashion. Even when there's nothing physically going on, I have all these little thoughts going on inside my head about the stuff. So I read pretty damn slow (no way I would get those books done in a day... assuming I ever had a whole day) but I not only remember a lot of the stuff in the books, but can also point out allusions and tie together allegorical concepts really quick. I completely destroyed a piece by Kirkegaard although my teacher read it several times over and I read it once.

Meh, everyone's different.

Banned for pomophobia. Lists have been an 'art form' since the at least the 1980s.

Banned also for lack of brevity. The point for the speed-reading braggarts is that, when it comes to reading, there is no direct correlation between quantity and quality, no matter how you vainly try to cobble some pseudo-math together to justify your arguments.

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banned for a lot of letters.

So are you trying to say that I'm just unjustifiably slow or speed doesn't count for jack? I've never played with pseudo-math. Bad at math in general.

I can sort of understand this.

Banned because your teacher said that if you keep the first and last letters of a word but change those inbetween it is still legible. Once you get the context this stuff is easy.

Banned for making it easy

it's no fun when it's easy.

Xer0 \^/

banned cause he's halfway right. In this case, you have to get the context. If you keep the original letters and just switch them around (not counting the first and last), then it flows much better for most people. If you want a guaranteed success, then keep the first and last letters, jumble those in the middle, and keep any letters with high or low points, such as j or l, as close to their original placement as possible. Yes, most people really skim words rather than read them.

Bnaend for dniog it rihgt.