Words per minute is a common metric for assessing reading speed and is often used in the context of remedial skills evaluation, as well as in the context of speed reading, where it is a controversial measure of reading performance. A word in this context is the same as in the context of speech. The average adult reads prose text at 250 to 300 words per minute. While proofreading materials, people are able to read at 200 wpm on paper, and 180 wpm on a monitor. [Those numbers from Ziefle, 1998, are for studies that used monitors prior to 1992. See Noyes & Garland 2008 for a modern tech.
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Definition of fundamental. 1  1 : something fundamental; especially : one of the minimum constituents without which a thing or a system would not be what it is. 2  2a : the principal musical tone produced by vibration (as of a string or column of air) on which a series of higher harmonics is basedb : the root of a chord.