RSVP
Words appear one at a time in the same spot. Your eyes stop jumping and you set the pace. It is the drill running in the meter on the home page.
effective wpm
Reading: speed that only counts if you understood it
The figure most apps show you is raw words per minute. That one is easy to inflate — just skim. Here the only figure that raises your level is effective speed.
words per minutequiz accuracyeffective speed
Read at 500 wpm and score 40% on the quiz and your effective speed is 200 wpm. The app shows you all three numbers, not just the flattering one.
The drills
Schulte tables
A grid of scrambled numbers you find in order while staring at the centre. Trains peripheral vision and is measured in seconds.
Gear shifting
You alternate fast stretches and comfortable ones inside the same text. Like fartlek for a runner: the high gear stops being scary.
Tachistoscope
Word groups flash for shorter and shorter windows. Widens how much you take in per fixation.
Pacer and zero regression
A guide sets the pace along the line so you stop going back. Regression is the habit that costs the most speed.
Flash comprehension
Whole sentences in a flash, questions afterwards. The proof that the speed did not eat the meaning.
Pyramid and columns
Lines that grow wider, and text in narrow columns. Both widen how much text lands in one fixation, from opposite directions.
Eye movement and visual search
Saccades, tracking and timed scanning. This is the warm-up: move the eye before you ask it for speed.
Eidetic
Visual memory of flashed digits. It is the bridge to the memory pillar and it lifts your perceptual span.
Marking the page
The pencil-and-paper exercise, done in the app: you tap the line each time your eye goes back, or mark where you stop. You leave with your own regressions and fixations per line.
Your library
Your own books, inside — and staying on your device
Training on sample texts is fine for a week. After that what you want is to read YOUR book faster. So you import it and read it here, with the training on top.
Import EPUB, PDF, DOCX or TXT
It joins your library, marked as read or to read. The file is processed in your own browser: it is never uploaded to a server.
A real reader
Chapter index, bookmarks, page jump, eight reading themes, text size, line height, margins, justification and bionic mode.
With the training on top
Read it straight through, or push it through the RSVP reader and the drills, without changing book or losing your page.
An automatic quiz
When a session ends, the app generates questions on what you just read and computes your effective speed on THAT text, not on a sample one.
Make items as you read
You mark something worth remembering — a fact, a quote, a term — and save it right there with its cue and its answer. Drop it into a system you already have, or create a new one without leaving the book.
And it flows into memory
What you saved joins your flashcards and gets scheduled by spaced repetition along with everything else. Reading and remembering stop being two separate apps.
01
The Path: technique first
The Reading Path is short chained lessons that teach the technique before asking for speed: what a fixation is, why you go back, how the span widens. You read one idea, try it in a drill, and move on. The opening lessons are free.
02
The Ladder: climbing 50 at a time
The Speed Ladder is a full routine per rung, and a rung is not passed by showing up: you have to hold the speed with comprehension above the threshold. Before each drill there is a technique card saying what it trains, how to do it and what to watch. And if one drill feels easy and another hard, you set the level of each one separately.
Fifteen minutes. Today.
The first number you'll see is your own, untrained. It's the only one you need to start comparing yourself to yourself.
Two minutes, no signup, no email.