15-Day Speed Reading Practice Tracker
Speed reading only sticks if you practise it daily for a couple of weeks. This one-page sheet gives you the 15-day structure on paper: stick it on your desk, tick off the day's four drills, and log your reading speed so you can see it move.
- Four daily drills to tick off — eye-ball exercise, 2–3 word scanning, retention exercise, and main idea / mind map
- A daily WPM log — total words read, time taken, and your words-per-minute for each of the 15 days
- The WPM formula worked out for you — total words ÷ total minutes (300 words in 2 minutes = 150 WPM)
- Goal and best-speed boxes — write your 15-day target at the start and your best WPM at the end
Print it in landscape on A4 — the WPM table runs across the page.
How to use the tracker
The one instruction printed at the top of the sheet is the whole method: don't read by speaking the words in your head. Scan across the paragraph and hold on to the main idea instead of every word.
- Pick one book and stay with it for all 15 days. Switching books changes the difficulty and makes your WPM numbers meaningless.
- Do the four drills in order before you start reading, and tick each one on the sheet. They take a few minutes together.
- Read for a fixed time — two or five minutes, the same every day — then count roughly how many words you covered (words per line × lines per page × pages).
- Work out your WPM (total words ÷ minutes) and write it in the day's row.
- Close the book and recall the main idea in a quick mind map. Speed with nothing retained isn't reading — that's why the retention drill is on the sheet.
- Compare day 1 with day 15, not day 3 with day 4. Daily numbers bounce around; the fifteen-day trend is the real signal.
Speed will vary with how hard the text is, and comprehension matters more than the number in the box. The point of the log is to make your practice visible, not to chase a record.
E-book: “Improve Grades and Make Sharp Mind”
Abhishek's introductory e-book for students: why re-reading and highlighting feel productive but don't hold, and what to do instead — memory techniques, active recall, spaced revision and the mindset habits that keep you using them.
Also free on this site
Not downloads — these run in your browser, need no sign-up, and keep whatever you type on your own device.
- Know Yourself Better — 19 self-assessments (learning style, focus, study habits, memory, mindset) and 11 brain-training tools, including a speed reading trainer to pair with the tracker above.
- Notes PDF Generator — turns a markdown notes file into a printable, handwritten-style PDF, converted locally in your browser.
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