The blind version of weightlifters asking… how much vcan you even lift bro?

Sometimes out of curiosity. Sometimes out of competition. Gamers compare pings. Petrolheads compare cars. Men and women compare... sizes. Ever study the cold war or the space race? Same thing. Humans love to flex on their sapient peers for the sake of flexing. It is what it is.

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I'm reminded of that one clip of two Looney Tunes characters pulling out progressively larger guns and raising themselves up on higher and higher platforms in order to get advantage over the other one.

I’ve noticed that people who run their screen reader super fast will go and listen to the same sentence a couple times. Kind of defeats the purpose if you have to listen to it a couple times. Are usually run my iPhone between 60 and 70 but turn it down if there are civilians listening in as they can’t understand even that speed

A perceived sense of superiority that one can listen faster than one's fellow blind friend maybe?

I've never used JAWS, so I have no clue how fast that actually is. In my experience speed rate percentage has differed a lot on the eloquence addons on NVDA throughout the years, so I just calculate speed rate in words per minute. For me, when reading in English, it's aproximately 1100 words per minute casual reading speed, browsing stuff on the web and the like, and down to 1k or thereabouts if I'm reading a text that I need to concentrate on. I might lower it down to the mid 900s if I'm dealing with unfamiliar terminology.

Competitiveness.

For me, jaws at about 60 with eloquence, voiceover on computer at 100 and on phone 100 as well, though its slightly slower there for some reason. Ah well.
Would be nice to be able to see how many words per minute each reader is speaking though, but theres not really a way to tell. Guess I could always set it to read an essay or something and set a timer for a minute maybe? Any ideas??

I don't think I have ever talked about this with anyone. Maybe because most of my friends are sighted.

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I can see two purposes to it. One is to feel superior to others, the other just as a conversation starter, like, maybe someone want's to start a thread on a group or something and can't find a particular topic to disgust, so asks that. Kind of like talking about the weather.

English is my second language and I'm hearing impaired, so the rate I use with Eloquence both on NVDA and JAWS is a crawling 40 percent. Sometimes, like when I'm reading a particularly complicated piece of text I bring it even lower. I suppose I'm a loser in this regard. lol.