Lightning Bolt

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Advertisement from the local newspaper. I think they were trying to sell fast broadband or something. Although it’s nice and catchy but it’s not quite scientific. I figured I read (and understood) the sentence in about 2 seconds. Google tells me that Bolt’s 100 metres stands at 9.58 seconds. The average reading speed according to here is 200 to 400 words per minute. Taking the low end divided by 6 is still about 33 words every 10 seconds. So more accurately, by the time most people finished reading that line, Bolt would have been halfway through the race and given his “slow” reaction time, just about behind everybody else.

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