I’m building a Flash application for a client which displays a question, waits for the user to absorb it, then disappears, finally showing the various answer choices.

Its been difficult coming to a happy medium when deciding how long it should display the question and make sure the user has enough time to read and absorb its information.

I’ve come to the conclusion that it takes a person one tenth a second for each character to properly read and absorb the sentence before it disappears.

Therefore, you should have taken no longer than 57.5 seconds to read this blog post!