Auctioneers are in a class of their own, clocking roughly 250 words per minute. And commentators, who need to keep up with fast-paced play, may even outpace auctioneers.

A decent typist can do 80 words per minute. Mark Kislingbury can hit more than four times that speed. He’s the fastest in the world, and getting faster. The 53-year-old Texan holds the world ...

The average person reads between 120 and 200 words per minute according to Squirt, and the Huffington Post reports that a typical college level reader can absorb between 200 and 400 words each minute.

"You have to graduate with 225 words a minute, with 95 percent accuracy," said Merilee. "That's the standard." Merilee has even had quick bursts of up to 400 words per minute.

'How Many Words Per Minute Do You Type?' -- And Other Debate Questions For Clinton - 09/24/2016. He has weird, wayward hair, a bottomless need for attention, and lives to be politically incorrect.

A study this season by The Count looked at every major NFL announcing outfit and counted how many words-per-minute the play-by-play and color men said. Hats off to CBS's Kevin Harlan and Solomon ...

Fivethirtyeight did some calculation and the total count of words of Hamilton is 20,520. Which means, the show throws an average of 144 words per minute. Which is HUGE!

Our clear winner is Twista, who puts away 1,287 words in 4 minutes 36 seconds in the song “Mista Tung Twista.” That’s an average of 280 words per minute (wpm), or four times faster than Jay Z.

This test offers an idea of how many words per minute you read, and based on that number, the site then tells you approximately how long it will take you to read that particular book.

To give it a spin for myself, I grabbed some Well+Good content I need to catch up on, set my pace to 325 words per minute, and kick back in my desk chair for a few minutes of reading about whether ...