How old were you when you learnt how to read?

[CitricAcid]

When I was -3.

 

[cmhardw]

I read my first book on my own at around 4 or 5-ish.

Chris

 

[TheCubeMaster5000]

I love that book! I remember my mom reading it to me practically every night!

edit: that doesn't mean I couldn't read it on my own if I wanted to.

 

[CubesOfTheWorld]

I "learnt" how to read when I was around 4.5 or 5.

 

[amostay2004]

Wow how the heck do you guys know what age you all started to read? I totally can't remember

 

[Systemdertoten]

2 or 3-ish

 

[Chapuunka]

Whenever I got Pokemon Blue.

 

[Gavin]

I was able to read when I was 2 years and 8 months old (at that time, that was an Indonesian Record)

Don't know whether thats weird or cool.

 

[blade740]

My sister taught me to read when I was 2. The first book I ever read was "Where the Wild Things are"

 

[Asianlikekevin]

I learned to read 4 or 5. I don't really remember, I just remember speech was my thing, not reading. Kindergarten and first grade is when I really started hitting reading at a decent level.

 

[MichaelP.]

I had to be around 4ish. My favorite book was the Junie B. Jones series until I was like 7 or 8.

Encyclopedia Brown FTW

Also the B. stands for Beatrice.

 

[jowe27]

I was lying in my last post, I never really learned how to read, Id just cut the corners off the pages and turn the pages really hard and sometimes the page would even fall out! Eventually Id get to the end of the book and some ******* would flip all the way back to page 1 and Id have to start over.

 

[Truncator]

I was 3.

 

[Faz]

Because I totally remember and kept a record of when I read my first book.

 

[irontwig]

You guys make it sound like learning to read is an instantaneous process.

 

[Ranzha]

I learned the alphabet at about a year, and as time progressed, into my second year I was already typing. I couldn't grasp the complexity of those huge, thick pencils and the way one's hand would move to create letters.
Thus, I learned to type before I learned to write. This was before I could even talk intelligibly.
So, I understood what was coming in, and I outputted it in the manner that I was given--typing.
There are home videos of me doing it, and it was pretty cool.

I used to spend hours a day typing the alphabet in order to learn the ABCs. Because of this, I can now speedtype the alphabet without much difficulty.

The first novel I read on my own was...owait, idr. Oh well.

 

[oprah62]

IIRC it was 743 days 8 hours and 2 minutes and 23 seconds when I had finished The Lord of the Rings series....

 

[Olji]

i learned it at four i think, and learned math at the same age, since my big brother taugth me (3 years older, first grade at that time) to make me do his homework... mom wasnt happy when she found out >.<, althought that probably helped me getting better at math, i remember outbesting some fourth graders when i started first grade, although they sucked at maths

EDIT: they had fun asking first graders what 10 times 10 was, and i answered correctly, and asked them what 9 times 11 was, and they got owned x)

 

[LNZ]

I did not go to pre-school, so I can say I learned the alphabet, counting to 10 and some words from Sesame Street as a 4 year old in 1974. And as bonus, on three such days in that year, I even got to see the replays of the Socceroos (Australia's national football/soccer team) games in the 1974 FIFA World Cup too.

 

[Hadley4000]

I'll let you know.