Discussion on: Changelog: Reading Time Now Displayed

[Meghan (she/her)]

Cool! How is it calculated?

[Ben Halpern]

  def calculate_reading_time
    word_count = @content.split(/\W+/).count
    (word_count / 275.0).ceil
  end

Contributions welcome 😄

[Vinicius Kiatkoski Neves]

Ben, just wondering, why 275 WPM?

This question came up to my mind and I decided to read a bit about it and found the following reference which recomends 200 WPM: marketingland.com/estimated-readin...

There is also this from Wikipedia where there is a nice graph with several different studies correlating WPM / age.

As I mentioned I'm just curious about the magic number (where you've found it).

[ItsASine (Kayla)]

From your Wikipedia link, this caught my eye:

reading for memorization (fewer than 100 words per minute [wpm]); reading for learning (100–200 wpm); reading for comprehension (200–400 wpm); and skimming (400–700 wpm)

I'd think most here are reading for learning, to an extent. 200 WPM sounds like it'd be a good middle between learning and comprehending, though I could just be slow since I tend to read at work while I'm watching tests run.

[Ben Halpern]

Hmm all good food for thought. We settled on this a while back and I sort of forget the exact reasoning.

We’ll make this smarter over time.

[Vinicius Kiatkoski Neves]

Just a tip (don’t wanna bother you with that) but usually when I get those magic numbers on my code I try to add comments linking to it. It might help future contributors to understand and think twice before updating it to another magic number hehehe
As I mentioned I was just curious about it!
Nevertheless I think it is a great feature and it might help engagement ✌️

[Miguel Piedrafita]

Haven't worked with Ruby a lot, but would you be open to a PR that takes images into account?