The Reading Champion - Fajer AlKooheji - U18

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The Reading Champion – By Fajer AlKooheji

Mariam Miller; 23 yrs old girl, fastest reader in the world and the current holder of the world record of “Most Words Read in One Minute” (4000 words), for the longest time (10yrs). Let me tell you her story...

Mariam’s hobby is reading and this hobby started when she was 5 yrs. She loved reading so much that she read before school, after school, sometimes while eating lunch or dinner and she spent most of her free time reading. She would read anything, from big thick novels and encyclopedias to the backs of Cornflake packets. She especially liked to read fiction which took her to different worlds and different times. She would dream about the stories she read…

Mariam’s mom started entering her into reading competitions in school and outside school from the age of 8, and she got first place on almost every single one of them. At the age of 12 she won so many global competitions that she was on the news and she got hundreds of thousands followers on her social media. She already had a lot to start with because she was a beautiful, smart young lady, but she still was really happy with her new fans.

One day, while she was scrolling through her social media, she saw a lot of her fans sending her picture of a women who had just beaten the world record of Most Words Read in One Minute. They were all telling her that she should could totally beat it and she should at least try. At first, she wasn’t sure she would be good enough, but eventually those comments hyped her up. She’d thought of trying to beat it before but she never actually committed to it, but seeing that all her fans were cheering her on, she decided to try and to her surprise it only took her a few attempts to beat the record!

Maryam was so happy and proud of herself and so was her supportive family, not only did she beat it by a huge margin, but she was also the youngest person to get that record. And till this day, after 10 yrs she still has it. Some people came close to beating her and some just beat her by a few words, but she would always get it back as soon as she found out.

Maryam still reads every day! She has realized that however much she reads, she will never read as much as she wants to. There are millions and millions of books out there…. Maybe she will write one! About reading….

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