Your reading speed, in one minute — with proof you understood it.

Most “reading speed tests” hand you a timer and a wall of lorem ipsum. You get a number, but nobody checks whether you actually read — which makes it a skimming test, not a reading test.

This one ends differently: ten questions about the passage you just read. Score 8 or better and your WPM counts. Anything less and the run is thrown out — so the number you walk away with is the honest one.

1. A dense ~400-word passage on a real but unfamiliar topic — designed so nobody has an unfair head start.
2. A live timer while you read. Tap “done” the moment you finish the last word.
3. Ten multiple-choice questions — recall, inference, main idea.
4. Your result: words ÷ time in WPM, plus the comprehension score that decides whether it counts.

Speed without comprehension is skimming, and skimming is a skill with its own uses — but it’s not reading. The 8/10 threshold keeps the metric honest: when someone tells you they read at 380 WPM on this test, you know they understood it too. When you tell yourself that, you can believe it.

A baseline is only useful if it moves. The same drill doubles as training: paced mode pushes you through text at a target speed, and a free account tracks your best qualified WPM and streak over time. Two minutes a day is the whole program.