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Comment by apaprocki

11 years ago

Worth noting -- it is roughly 38k words and is the longest piece ever published by Bloomberg.

A quick google search showed that about 300 words per minute is average for an adult reading pace. I'm a slow reader so I'm probably right around there. So that's ~127 minutes to read all of this, not including time spent playing with the great animations. Probably better for me to get a bit more work done before I tackle the rest of this one (only read section 1 so far).

Yes, it will tell you that at the end, and mock you if you arrive there too quickly to have read it all :).

  • Does this brilliant webpage not know the concept of skimming and related approaches?

    • for some readers is skimming is like just skimming but not understanding the true essence of the article...and for some readers they like to read it a loud than with eye...I believe every human has their speed and capacity to do any task..in this case some people raise their speed of reading after reading certain paragraphs(not skimming) but reading literally.....and then they skim in the middle...if the speeds drops out...they read literally again....flow goes like a pulse....