So to clarify querido amigo:

I have two lists curated and non curated, and I keep tracking the per minute read solely based on total member reading time and how much I was paid...I don't ever look at views/reads (I do log them and I keep an average of those too - but medium support told me and confirmed - those have nothing to do with how I get paid).

As the time increases and the system updates, I log in the total member reading time and my total earnings. (I've done this for 60 articles)

The rates are all different at the thousandth digit...so I average all of these - and right now the average on both lists is: 0.030 per minute

I wouldn't say I'm rocking kind friend - I keep improving (my average reads are about 45 (52 on the curates) and the average length of my articles is 4.5 minutes)

...but to your point: it's all about those internal readers - and having them drink the full cup of coffee! ☕️☕️☕️😀😀😀

Hope that clarifies! ;-)

PS two articles came out to .05 and for the life of me it makes ZERO sense! It's so weird it bothers me and both paid me total about $5, and those aren't my highest earned articles and to tell you how poor they do compared to others: My average total read time is about 3.64 hours and those two had a total of 1.5 and 1.75 hours....articles I wrote when I first started...

Weird - I've double and triple checked because it was that odd. so I ascribe to a fluke of the system -and too bad it didn't fluke when I finally got over 6h on one article! 😂😂

anyhow...hope that helps!