About

The Reading Speed Test lets you see how quickly you read a short passage and how much of it you took in. It is free and you do not need an account.

The passages

All 30 passages were written originally for this site. There are 10 each at Easy, Medium and Hard, covering short stories, how everyday things work, and ideas from language, philosophy and statistics.

How passages are picked

The daily passage follows a fixed shuffled order and moves on one step each date, so no passage returns until all 30 have been used. Start test picks at your chosen difficulty, favoring passages you have not read yet. The set of passages does not change day to day.

What this is not

This is a casual reading exercise, not a medical, educational or diagnostic assessment. The speed bands it shows are approximate and are not taken from a published study.

Your results

Your history and personal bests are stored in your own browser. There is no leaderboard and no profile. The privacy page has the details.

The Reading Speed Test is a Cain Brands site.