I don’t suggest paying attention to reading speed for newer learners and I it doesn’t seem like more advanced people on here really care…BUT, I figured I’d share this just in case someone could get use out of it. I’ve been using this extension while reading
With the way I have it set up, it looks like this
Now, at first I thought it wasn’t as useful because it only stepped by words, and its not really built for japanese so it doesn’t parse words correctly and there was no cpm option. However, after some testing, I realized that it averages out basically to the same speed every page anyways. Using:
Steps/min: 250
Step: 1 word
I get about 22,000 ch/hour for my book, and I can’t imagine it would be terribly different for other books. In other words, multiply the steps/min by 88 and you will get the characters per hour. For someone wanting to read at 10k an hour, you would set it at 113, for example.
Downsides/notes:
So a couple things about using this with ttu ereader like I do.
- even if you set your reader to paged mode, it will still keep track of the position, so no need to worry about going much faster and getting a lead on the pacer (as seen here)
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Blurring pictures seems to be the exception for whatever reason to the above rule. It will automatically start at the netabare tag.
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It can be distracting having this on your page, so you can either change to color, or do what I do and just start it at the start of the first page you finished. This means that your goal is not necessarily to keep pace with the red text, but to make sure it never appears on your screen. I find this a lot more exciting and makes me keep reading at a high speed even when I get a massive lead on the pacer, since I can’t actually see that I have a massive lead and let my guard down.
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Using yomichan starts the pacer at that point in the text. Can be annoying, but not a huge deal for people who don’t actually have to use yomichan in the first place I guess.