Reading Speed Calculator

This works out how fast you actually read, in words a minute, from a passage you time yourself on. Paste the text, or enter a word count or a number of pages, add the minutes and seconds it took, and it returns your speed, where that sits against the 238 words a minute average for adult silent reading, and how long a novel would take you. Add a comprehension score and it also gives the effective reading rate, which is speed multiplied by how much you retained. Speed alone is easy to inflate by skimming, so the two figures belong together.