Just curious how much reading you guys do on average.

Hello 

I'm not much of a reader. My only exposure is through my anki decks. From that, I probably read in the ballpark of 500 non-unique characters a day.

Bearing in mind I'm studying Chinese rather than Japanese, and my reading skills are not high enough to understand native material anyway.

Hmm, roughly estimating from the book I'm currently reading it looks like about 1000 characters per day on a workday (reading just for a bit at bedtime and on my break at work), but it would be a lot more than that on a day off, 3000ish if I just read for awhile and 10,000ish if I make reading a major activity. That's strictly a count of 'characters', only a tenth of those are kanji, the rest are kana (I didn't count punctuation for anything, since linguistically those aren't 'characters' even if in computer terms they are).

Oh, hmm, that's just progress in my book, though. But you asked about reading, what I see in various computer interfaces is probably not relevant. It also isn't that much currently, since I haven't been able to get my Android into a Japanese interface the way my iPhone was. Some of my programs and web pages are in Japanese, some aren't. No idea how to count that stuff.

Thanks for the responses. Sorry for the odd question. The reason I was asking is I started reading something on aozora bunko today that was fairly challenging for 90 minutes and I checked how many characters (including kana) and it ended up being 10,000. I was just curious how that stacks up against other readers.

(2015-11-19, 9:32 pm)kameden Wrote: I was just curious how that stacks up against other readers.

Long term this is a seriously bad idea. Keep statistics about how much your reading is improving but comparing yourself to others, especially self reported results on the internet, is the path to the dark side.

It's kind of unfortunate that the Tadoku Challenge has died. Perhaps a few of us web peeps can come together and throw together the smallest possible working app to continue that in an automated way indefinitely.

Aw man, Tadoku died!? I liked that one...
A more minimalist web app would be fairly easy (well, except for user data, because I know nothing about multi-user systems... or network programming in general), but the Twitter bot... Well, I never did use that thing directly anyway. Security would be a pain anyway, so maybe a less connected site would be better anyway...
(That's for another thread, if Tadoku doesn't pop back up in the next couple months.)

@OP
Frankly, I have no idea. Maybe 4000 per hour? That's using the 400 character per page calculation from Tadoku and a memory I have of recently reading what amounted to five pages (~2000 characters, including punctuation) in about thirty minutes. It's not particularly fast, but I wasn't trying to go fast (not that I could go much faster while retaining accuracy).

EDIT: fixed a 'word' to 'character'

(2015-11-19, 10:01 pm)tokyostyle Wrote: Long term this is a seriously bad idea. Keep statistics about how much your reading is improving but comparing yourself to others, especially self reported results on the internet, is the path to the dark side.

I wasn't comparing to try to compete, my result is from something I was reading pretty slowly actually because it was difficult. I think for easier stuff I could even be twice as fast. But it's less about speed and more about how much people read. I'm looking to be motivated by others.

50-100words per day.