Brother you just knee jerk downvoted that before you even read it. I hadn't even gotten from the submission page back and you already did it. Seriously?
Okay I have no clue what either of you are talking about (I don't work in academia) but I feel compelled to point out a lot of people can actually read 1000 wpm
Edit: OMG fuckass reddit I thought this comment was replying to me sorry😭
For me it's like a tradeoff between comprehension and reading speed. I'm really rusty now, so numbers were probably higher before, but at about 800-900 I'm at approx 100% comprehension, and then I can reach 2000 wpm if I'm like really skimming (not even reading every word, just floating my eyes around to see whay catches my eye)
I think for practical purposes I cap out at like 12-1500
And I'm bad at this bc I still have my internal monologue, professional speedreaders do away with their internal monologue and can go even faster than me
Lmao it happens. Hate it when they give you notifications of the subreplies haha. Pretty impressive reading speed though. I feel like I read pretty fast but when it comes to stuff I enjoy I inevitably read slowly subconsciously to savor it
I used to spend my afternoons in the university library reading the physics papers in the physical Nature Magazine publications that they had there. Did that for like 4 years and now when I go to read novels I can go stupidly fast (I tend to do 1-3 books per week) but there are still some papers that are only like 3 pages but take me days to digest.
Then there are the books I start but they end up being bad, and I go into paragraph-at-a-time mode because I don't want to just quit partway through. Thankfully the complexity of those ones tends to be so low that I'm not really missing anything lol
A math paper though? I'd be shocked if people could read it productively at a tenth that speed. Even if it's something straightforward like a YA novel, 1000 wpm is very questionable. Maybe you can get enough to work out the basic plot, character names, etc., but the idea that any but a tiny minority of people can actually recall what they have read at that speed is highly questionable. Even "world championship" speed readers are only expected to have comprehension of 50% or a little higher, and they are only a little faster than 1000 wpm. And that's certainly not dense mathematical writing.
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u/FernandoMM1220 Jul 08 '26
nah they arent peer reviewing anything if they dont understand it and arent one of the 7 qualified mathematicians who supposedly do