Mostly just copying Medium’s implementation, which seemed to be what most people were familiar with. I think they now use the slightly lower 265WPM, which they list as the “average reading speed of an adult”, and I do expect readers of LW and the EA Forum to have a slightly higher reading speed than average.
Mostly just copying Medium’s implementation, which seemed to be what most people were familiar with. I think they now use the slightly lower 265WPM, which they list as the “average reading speed of an adult”, and I do expect readers of LW and the EA Forum to have a slightly higher reading speed than average.