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Free retention quiz
How much do you keep?
Speed is how fast the words go in. Retention is how many are still there a minute later. Pick a pace, read a short passage one word at a time, look away for sixty seconds, then answer four questions. The score is what you kept.
Read 170 words, wait 60 seconds, then answer
Pick a pace. The words come one at a time: keep your eyes on the red letter. Then look away for a minute, and see what stayed.
Look away from the screen. The questions come when this reaches zero.
| Book | At your speed |
|---|---|
| The Great Gatsby | |
| 1984 | |
| The Hobbit | |
| Pride and Prejudice | |
| War and Peace | |
| The King James Bible |
Questions
What does the retention quiz measure?
How much of a passage you still hold one minute after reading it at a set pace. Reading speed is how fast the words go in. Retention is how many are still there.
What is a good retention score?
Three or four right out of four at your chosen pace means that pace is yours. Fewer means step down one pace and train up to it.
How do I remember more of what I read?
Get asked. Memory keeps what it has to give back, so a quiz straight after reading and again later does more than rereading. Redline does both on every read.
Want your speed first? Take the reading speed test. Forgetting whole books? Read how to remember what you read.