Average Reading Speed For Adults. Its a scalar quantity which means it is defined only by magnitude. Given the distance travelled and the time it took to cover that distance you can calculate your speed using this formula.
Distance travelled is measured in metres m average speed is measured in metres per second ms time is measured in seconds s.
Plug the time into the formula. As noted above make sure you convert the units appropriately first or use our speed calculator which does that automatically. The average reading speed for an adult is around 200-300 wpm. The fastest readers in the world claim to read more than 25000 words per minute.