> >
> > Find something to read. Find a stop watch.
> > Mark a starting place in your thing to read. Set
> > the stopwatch for five minutes and start
> > reading. When the timer goes off, stop reading
> > and mark your place. Count the words, divide
> > by five, and there's your answer. If that's not
> > scientific enough for you, do it a whole bunch
> > of times and average the results.
> >
> > Gri"O.S.A."shny
>
> That's what I was going to say.
>
> Five minutes will probably be accurate enough.
>
> It's a good idea to read something that is the same level of difficulty as the stuff you normally read. Instead of reading "See Spot Run," try a periodical that you read on a regular basis.
> Howard

Good thoughts, from both of you. I don't have any periodicals that I read regularly, so maybe I'll just take something like a Rinkworks section (a long one, ideally) and try that. I can even copy it into Word and get Word to count my words for me. Smart, eh?

Don "The ol' noggin still has a couple of tricks" Monkey