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How to calculate words per minute reading fluency

How is typing speed measured? I know about wpm but... what is a word exactly in this context?
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I take many typing test and get my result in wpm but... how is that measured exactly?
Martín Dragón
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To calculate words per minute reading fluency you have to divide total characters typed / word
Pablo Dávila Herrero
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In this case a word would be 5 characters (we just use the average)
Pablo Dávila Herrero
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Yep tests are very different. They are usually simple words with no meaning, but that's not real world at all, so hard to measure!
KingTyping