Everything runs in this tab. Nothing is sent anywhere, and your scores are stored on this device under whichever account is signed in — your account page explains that arrangement.
Six numbers, and whether they moved.
A drill you don't score is a way of feeling productive. Each of these is a personal best you can beat, and each one is measured the same way every time so the comparison is honest. Speeds only count when the comprehension check passed — a pace you can't answer questions at isn't a reading speed.
Kept on this device only. Reading sessions with a comprehension score are also filed on your account page.
Each one removes a different bottleneck.
These aren't six flavours of the same exercise. Reading slowly is usually four separate problems wearing one coat — the eyes land too often, take in too little per landing, jump backwards, and wait for an inner voice that can't keep up. One drill each, plus a test that tells you where the ceiling actually is.
Six drills is a toolbox.
A series is a plan.
A drill on its own gives you a number. A series is the part that moves it: the same six drills in an order that builds, at speeds worked out from the ceiling you actually proved rather than one you picked off a menu. Each session is three or four drills and runs about ten minutes. Leave a day between them — the consolidation happens between sessions, not during them.
Progress through a series is stored on this device under whichever account is signed in, exactly like your personal bests. A series makes you better at the series; whether it reaches your reading is checked in the reader, on your own documents.
Four rules that decide whether this works.
Ten minutes, five days
Perceptual learning consolidates between sessions rather than during them, so short and frequent beats long and rare by a wide margin. The workout button runs a full set in about twelve minutes; do that, then stop, even if you feel fine.
Drill above, read below
The uncomfortable pace is the training stimulus. Your actual reading should happen 50–100 wpm underneath it, in the reader, on documents that matter. Never do real work at your drill speed.
Take the check
Four of the six drills end with a recall check, and the pace only enters your record if the check passed. Comprehension feels fine at speeds where it isn't — that feeling is the single reason speed reading has the reputation it has.
When recall drops, drop the pace
A failed check is information. Fall back 50 wpm, repeat until it passes twice, then step up again. Progress here is a staircase with landings, and the people who refuse the landings are the ones who plateau and quit.
The gym trains, the Academy programmes, the reader does the work. If you want a fourteen-unit course with a placement test and pass marks rather than six loose drills, that's Reader Academy — it uses the reader on real text and this gym as the warm-up.
Drills train drills. Transfer is the part you have to check.
Grid-search tables and flashed word groups reliably make you better at grid-search tables and flashed word groups. Whether that carries over into reading a contract is the honest open question, and the evidence for transfer is thinner than the people selling it usually admit. We think the eye-movement drills earn their place because regression and over-fixation are measurable costs in ordinary reading — but a gym score is not a reading score, which is exactly why four of these six end with a comprehension check on real prose rather than a number on its own.
The one that transfers most reliably is the least impressive-looking: reading forwards without going back. It costs nothing in comprehension and it is available on day one.
Nothing here is a treatment, a therapy or an assessment for any reading difficulty. If reading is affecting your education or your work, a qualified specialist assessment is what helps, and this is not a substitute for one. The science page sets out what the research does and doesn't support, including the parts that argue against us.
Nothing to import.
Nothing to set up.
Pick a drill and start. Your first session gives you six numbers you didn't have, and one of them — your verified ceiling — decides where every other session begins.