READING SPEED

In English, reading is more like saccades which means when people is reading English, their eyes usually spring quickly along the lines. A lines is perceived in a series of saccades, followed by a large saccade as the eye jumps back to the left to start the next line. Hence, people usually read English faster, because people read English words with a full sentence rather than every single word. 

But it takes longer time to read in Chinese characters because they have more than thousands of characters and each character has its own meaning. Therefore, people take longer time to understand the meaning of the character.