I don't think I can even read 1000 words in my native tongue, Dutch. But let me test.... I did 145 on this wiki text below. In German I did 142. In Dutch, my native tongue, I did the same as English, 145.

The Free State of Saxony (German: Freistaat Sachsen [ˈfʁaɪ̯ʃtaːt ˈzaksən]; Upper Sorbian: Swobodny stat Sakska; Czech: Sasko) is a landlocked federal state of Germany, bordering the federal states of Brandenburg, Saxony Anhalt, Thuringia, and Bavaria, as well as the countries of the Czech Republic and Poland. Its capital is Dresden.

It is the tenth-largest German state in area, with an area of 18,413 square kilometres (7,109 sq mi), and the sixth most populous of Germany's sixteen states, with a population of 4.3 million.

Located in the middle of a former German-speaking part of Europe, the history of the state of Saxony spans more than a millennium. It has been a medieval duchy, an electorate of the Holy Roman Empire, a kingdom, and twice a republic.

The area of the modern state of Saxony should not be confused with Old Saxony, the area inhabited by Saxons

Okay..., now officially is proven that Muslims are morons. If you deliberately start to follow me and thumb down all entries I make, just because I have 'insulted the prophet', how obsessed and frustrated are you?

Okay, that is 40 seconds for me. But I must say, I just got out of bed. :-)

What about the wiki text above, how much time does that take?

If you want to test your reading skills you might also take a look at these exams:

http://www.examenblad.nl/9336000/1/j9vvhinitagymgn_m7mvi7dmy3fq6u9_n11vg41h1h4i9qe/vhi1nc4phqyb?topparent=vg41h1h4i9qe

Okay some of the questions are in Dutch. So you can skip them. But, if you do 50 questions and only have one or two errors, you should be on C1 level. If you have 3 to 10 on B2. Mind the time limit there too. You got two and a half hours for a full exam I think. Check it.

Well I can read Holly's 144-word comment comfortably in about 30 seconds.

For me, it would really depend on the words.  For example, I could read an easy novel very quickly (the type you would buy in an airport to read on the beach!) but it would take a little longer for me to read a more complex novel that required concentration.  An academic piece about a subject I was familiar with would take longer to read but if it were about a subject I had no knowledge of, I would be quite slow.

I would judge your reading fluency by comparing how long it takes you to read something in the foreign language to the amount of time it would take to read a similar piece in your native language.

1,000 words is a lot to read in one minute and I doubt you would really be able to absorb anything in that time!