One word at a time.
Open a PDF or an EPUB and read it as a single stream of words, held still in the centre of the screen. Set yourself a finishing line before you start — a chapter, a percentage, twenty minutes — and stop cleanly when you reach it.
Your books are parsed here, in this tab. Nothing is uploaded.
Drop a book here
PDF or EPUB · or
Reading…
Not sure how fast to read?
A short test: five unrelated passages at five different speeds, with questions after each. It reports the fastest speed you still understood.
Your shelf
Nothing here yet. The books you open are kept on this device, with your place in each one.
Title
Where to start
How far to read
Where to stop
A finishing line in the middle of a sentence is no use. Round it off.
Pace
You can change this mid-flight with the arrow keys.
Find your reading speed
Reading faster than you understand is not reading. This finds the point where the two part company.
- Five short passages, each shown at a different speed.
- Four questions after each one. No going back.
- The passages are unrelated and invented, so nothing you already know can help you answer, and one passage cannot explain another.
- Speeds and passages are paired at random, so an awkward passage does not land on the same speed every time.
Passage 1 of 5
It starts as soon as you press the button, and runs once.
What did it say?
| Speed | Passage | Score |
|---|
Press Space to begin