Growing up in a smarty-pants college town (okay, only third smartest), I received what I later realized was kind of an unusual public school education. As well as oddities like explicit sex ed in first grade (I’d love to do followup research with my peers to see how that turned out), we also benefited from things like speed reading being mysteriously integrated into our standard seventh grade English curriculum. Oye. Poor Mr. Bigler. Before I go on, I’d like to pause for a moment and apologize to the mild-mannered and patient Mr. Bigler for all the paper airplanes, thrown erasers, and smart-ass remarks. Forgive me. Phew. I feel much better now. Perhaps he can rest in peace knowing that 500 words-per-minute felt incredibly slow to me using the tool at spreeder.com. Try it for yourself. Cut and paste a body of text (just use some news or something) into the box and hit play. The default setting is 500wpm. I felt pretty comfortable at 950 (neener neener). What feels natural to you?