About ReadWizzard
ReadWizzard is a reading-training app built in Romania. This page says who makes it, what the exercises are based on, and why our blog also carries the findings that do not help us.
What ReadWizzard is
ReadWizzard is a reading-training programme built as twelve modules and thirty-two interactive exercises: a baseline speed measurement, finger pacing, cutting regressions and subvocalisation, reading in word groups, widening the visual span, skimming, and structuring what you read. Every exercise times you, measures the result and stores it, so progress is a series of numbers rather than a feeling.
You train on real texts, not on lab sentences: the app ships with its own library and accepts your own books (EPUB, PDF, MOBI, DOCX). After a reading session you can answer a set of comprehension questions, so speed is weighed against how much you kept - the metric we track is effective speed, raw speed corrected by the share of correct answers.
Who builds it
ReadWizzard is developed and operated by ASHA NEW EVO SRL, a limited liability company registered in Romania. We are a small team: the same people write the code, the exercise texts and the blog articles. We do not outsource content and we do not publish mass-generated articles - every text on this site has a person behind it who can answer for it.
What the exercises are based on
We lean on the research literature about eye movements and reading rate, not on the folklore of the niche. The references we use most often are Keith Rayner's review of eye movements in reading (1998) and the 2016 paper on the limits of reading speed, together with Marc Brysbaert's 2019 meta-analysis, which pools 190 studies and 18,573 adults and lands on an average of 238 words per minute for non-fiction.
The uncomfortable part comes from the same literature. PhotoReading, with its claim of 25,000 words per minute, has been independently evaluated exactly once, in a report commissioned by NASA Ames (McNamara, 2000), and the result was negative. We do have a photoreading module in the app, because people arrive asking about it; we teach it with the finding of that report written into it.
Our editorial line
The rule we write by is simple: we publish what the research shows, including when the result is commercially inconvenient for us. We do not invent numbers, we do not use fabricated testimonials, and we list the sources at the end of every article, with author and year, so you can check them yourself. When a study is missing - for instance, there are no published reading-rate norms for adult speakers of Romanian - we say it is missing instead of filling the gap with a guess. The articles live on the blog.
What we do not promise
We do not promise thousands of words per minute, and we do not promise reading without comprehension. Technique training can cut regressions, wasted fixations and the inner voice, and the difference shows up in the numbers - but it has a ceiling, and that ceiling sits far below what the ads in this niche sell.
Contact and documents
Write to us at support@readwizzard.com. Our company details are on the contact page, the rules of use in the Terms and conditions, and how we handle data in the Privacy policy.