It really depends on the kind of text. the perl tool I linked allows adapting the speed in 10% relative jumps with [ and ], so if the paragraphs weren't already skimmed just by looking at them regularly, I'd usually start with 500 and accelerate.

I triaged^[1] over 1000 reports for the Erowid Experience Vaults and for some of those I'd reach over 1000WPM in long paragraphs. Some of those are incredibly verbose, and unfortunately the prose quality isn't high enough to justify reading them slowly...

1. there is ridiculously wide variety of quality^[3], including some that is just spam, so they slightly crowdsourced the reviewing process and split off initial triage as a volunteer activity not requiring pharmacological expertise. I honestly encourage anyone who likes the site and wants to support [in ways other than the obvious donations[2]...] to consider volunteering for experience triage, as there is lots of burnout from the admittedly tedious activity. ↩

2. yes, they accept donations in a slightly amusing variety of shitcoins; I've discussed this with them often over the years, and they prefer Bitcoin. they are old-school maximalists, however they run a non-profit requiring donations, so the range of coins they accept is those that donors have actually sent over the years. ↩

3. suffix &Cellar=1 to the URL of report lists for the really weird/bad reports to get included, then go to the last pages of results... there are sometimes reports that are "so bad it's good". ↩