Was it hard to keep up with subtitles when you started watching Anime.

i was a pretty slow reader until i got into anime actually

nope, it's easy for me because I read a lot of books before watching anime, also I speed read

not at all, i think it just depends on your reading speed honestly

maybe it would get better with the more shows you watch with subtitles on, but personally I've never really felt behind on subtitles at any point

not for me

I didnt find it hard to keep up with because I first strated watching anime in sub. Got to the point where dub sounded kinda cringe, but I guess these days they are better. But when I first was still new to anime and tried to watch Bakemonogatari, it definitely was too fast for me, so fast that I had to quit it and come back to it later on when I was more experienced.

You get use to it with time, just like you get use to riding a bicycle without training wheels.

i'm usually pretty good at reading the sub without any issues, but recently when i was watching the fate series i did have to rewind like 10 seconds a few times to reread some things. I know some people have adhd and cant focus too much on sub but i'm perfectly fine with sub and dub and don't usually have any issues

I've always been a fast reader but I didnt watch sub until like my 20th anime, I just didnt want to but it took no time to get used to.

English isn't my native language so I'd been watching stuff with subtitles for years before my English was good enough, so I was pretty used to reading subs and it didn't bother me.

I got used to subs after 3 episodes of bgs. Also I find it easier to subs on mobile compared to pc or laptop

It was a lot of years ago, I probably was like 12 or lower, but I don't remind having any problems
I also watch everything in the original language, and I'm a native spanish speaker, so I also use subs in series in english and basically in everything, so I'm pretty used to it

Was pretty easy

depending on the show sometimes i still will have to pause to read, like if they're talking really fast or there's a lot of text on-screen but generally it's not a problem

first time i ever watched subbed anime i was so slow at reading it my dad had to read the subtitles out loud for me (i was babby) but i think that's how i got faster at reading so u definitely do get better at it with experience

It depends on the show for me. I watch mostly dub too but that's because I typically dislike Japanese voice acting. But there are a few exceptions for me so I'll talk about those. There are many where I don't have any issues whatsoever. Hunter x Hunter, Neon Genesis Evangelion, and Grave of the Fireflies are good examples of those. It feels no different to me than watching something in English with English subtitles on. It takes me like 5 minutes to get used to it if I haven't watched anything with subs in a while, but then I'm fine after that. However, there is stuff like The Tatami Galaxy where I actually can't even watch it. Those subs move so freaking fast. I'm a slow reader so I couldn't watch anything happening on the screen when they were talking. I couldn't even read all the lines of dialogue. That severely hindered my enjoyment of the series which was frustrating because I liked a lot of stuff about it. So the rule for me is 5 minutes. If I can't do it well by that point, then the subs will get in the way of my enjoyment.

When I started watching anime, I paused a lot cuz I can’t keep up with the subs. But now, the subs seems slower to me, hell I can even catch all of the monogatari series dialogues, lol

People who watched Monogatari & The Tatami Galaxy

If it's some sci-fi, deep, psychological mumbo jumbo dialogue, then it's hard to follow, even though I'm not really sure if I fully understand that. Otherwise, NO. I got pretty used to them.

I found it a bit difficult and very distracting when I started and watched dub until I got into AOT at which point I switched, some pausing was utilized but I think it got pretty natural after a few shows and now I only watch subbed.

Usually no, it's not hard for me. However I think there's some anime where things move pretty fast so the subtitles will move quickly as well. When I was watching Saiki K there would be times where I had to rewind a few times and watch scenes again because everyone talks so fast in that anime lol

I've always watched sub no matter what i was watching, so it wasn't hard for me at all

I actually started with dubs around the time i first got into anime (like 6-7 yo) and then moved to subs once i got into anime again a few years later. I will rewatch a show if the dub is available because i like to see the difference in translations but I've gotten so used to it, I'll always go with the sub first. For me, subs have always been a common thing since I enjoy english content far more than spanish content so since very early on I got used to reading subtitles + observing a scene at the same time. It's a little harder with anime since I don't speak japanese but still pretty manageable.

Nope, I always watched subbed disney movies

i read books pretty fast and have spent about a month with a deaf person before (close friend of my family) so i'm pretty good at reading subs

nope. no matter how big the screen, no problems at all

i had to pause in the beginning and read the fast subs
rest was easy

I only struggle to keep up when I'm not paying attention, including when I was watching anime from the full ep videos people upload on youtube.
I tend to pay a lot of attention to whatever I'm watching, though.

That being said, I tend to read a lot even outside anime, and subtitles often go significantly slower than I can read them so I have the opportunity to have a short lapse of attention (or 3-4s) without missing much.

nah ive always kinda been a fast reader

Not really, since I already got used to reading subtitles of movies and tv series back when I barely knew english. (I'm not considering myself a fast reader though, when it comes to books for example I prefer to read then slowly)

No not really

Not really. Although, I do rewind sometimes to try understand something that was said pertaining to the anime itself though, not because they spoke too fast.

Not really