Reading speed test
Read a short text at your normal pace, then answer three questions about it. You get your words per minute and how much of it you kept.
- 1How fast you read
Words per minute, timed from Start to I’m done.
- 2How much you kept
Three questions about the text, right after you read it. Speed only counts if you understood what you read.
- 3How you compare
Next to the adult average for reading non-fiction in English: 238 words a minute.
300 words, about 2 minutes
Read at your normal pace, not as fast as you can. The clock starts when you tap Start reading.
How you compare
Average for adults reading non-fiction in English, from a 2019 review of 190 studies by Marc Brysbaert.Your answers
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What’s a good reading speed?
The average adult reads non-fiction in English at about 238 words a minute, and fiction at about 260. Those numbers come from a 2019 review by Marc Brysbaert that pooled 190 studies. A 2016 review by Keith Rayner and colleagues put skilled adult readers at about 200 to 400 words a minute.
Reading much faster than that usually means skimming, and you keep less of the text. That’s why this test asks three questions too: a fast score only counts if you understood what you read. For ways to get through more without losing the meaning, read how to read faster without forgetting what you read.