The High-Performance Reading Audit™

Cognitive Performance Diagnostic

18 questions. 10 minutes. A precise map of where your reading is costing you.

Developed by Jon Bjarnason — Cognitive Performance Expert

Twenty-one years. More than 19,000 students. One pattern that never changes: most professionals are running a reading system installed at age six and never updated. The HPRAudit was built to diagnose exactly where that system is failing — and what to do about it.

Which Reader Are You?

The HPRAudit maps your answers across 18 diagnostic questions to one of four reader profiles. Each profile describes a specific relationship between your reading system and the demands your professional life places on it. These are not personality types. They are performance patterns — and every one of them is addressable.

The Overwhelmed Processor

The reading load has outgrown the reading system. You are not slow because you lack ability — you are slow because the habit was installed at age six and never updated. The material is piling up. The decisions are not waiting. The reading speed is. What you need is not more time. You need a faster system.

The Fast Skimmer

You have speed. The question is what you are taking with you. Fast readers who move across the surface of material without the techniques that anchor information at depth often have the most confident relationship with reading — and the most surprising gaps in recall two weeks later. Speed without system is exposure, not learning.

The Deep Diver

You read well when you find the right material. Finding it is the problem. You spend significant time on material that does not serve your actual priorities, while the unread list grows faster than you can address it. This is not a reading speed problem. It is a reading strategy problem — and that strategy is teachable.

The Capable but Stuck

You read well. You know it. You cannot prove it. The gap between what you read and what you can recall, apply, and build on two weeks later is wider than it should be. The argument fades. The detail evaporates. This is not a comprehension problem. It is a retention and application system problem — and that system is the final piece.

HPR Calibration Call — 30 Minutes

30 min

You have completed the High-Performance Reading Audit™. Your results have identified your reading profile and mapped where your primary friction is. This 30-minute call gives you three things: A personalised breakdown of what your HPRAudit results actually mean — not the summary you received on screen, but the full diagnostic picture behind the numbers. A clear identification of the specific reading habit, skill, or system gap that is costing you the most in your professional performance right now. A precise recommendation for your next step — whether that is a specific practice you can begin immediately on your own, or a structured programme that addresses the root of the friction your audit revealed. This call is currently being offered as a founding offer. It is normally valued at $197, but the first 10 spots are available at no charge. 8 spots remain. Once the 10 founding spots are filled, the call will move to its standard price of $197.

How This Audit Was Built

The eighteen questions in the High-Performance Reading Audit™ were not designed in a workshop. They were drawn from twenty-one years of watching professionals at every level struggle with the same recurring patterns — and from teaching every demographic in Iceland, a country small enough that the full range of human variability walks through one classroom. Jon Bjarnason has coached more than 18,000 students across that time, ranging in age from seven to ninety-four, and from every professional background including law, finance, medicine, academia, engineering, government, entrepreneurship, and the arts. The patterns that distinguish a reader whose system is keeping pace from one whose system has fallen behind are not theoretical. They are specific, recurring, and recognisable across radically different populations.

Words per minute is captured as a baseline — but it is one data point among eighteen. The audit maps seven dimensions of professional reading performance: execution speed, comprehension stability, structural awareness, attention control, endurance, adaptability, and retention style. Each dimension was chosen because it consistently predicts whether a professional reading system is producing the result the reader's role demands — not whether the reader is intelligent or well-intentioned, but whether the system they are running is adequate for the load they are carrying. Each question is calibrated to surface the honest answer rather than the flattering one. That calibration comes from twenty-one years of watching professionals at every level recognise themselves in the right framing of the right question.

The four reader profiles produced by the audit — the Overwhelmed Processor, who reads carefully and still cannot keep pace with the load; the Fast Skimmer, who moves quickly and retains less than they realise; the Deep Diver, who understands deeply but cannot sustain the volume the role demands; and the Capable but Stuck, whose system works well enough but has stopped developing — are not abstract categories. They describe four performance patterns that appear consistently across Jon's coaching practice. Each profile identifies a specific relationship between the reader's current system and the demands that system is failing to meet. Each receives a different characterisation and a different recommended next step, because the intervention that transforms one profile is not the intervention that transforms another. The instrument exists to give professionals a precise view of where their reading is costing them — and a clear direction for what to do about it.

— 1:1 Online Private Coaching —

The High-Performance Reader!

A private coaching 8-12 week programme designed to upgrade and evolve your reading skills — for life.

Over 21 years of coaching more than 19,000 students, I have developed a structured private reading coaching system that does not just teach you to read faster. It builds the complete architecture of a high-performance reader — the speed, the comprehension, the focus, the habits, and the tools to convert everything you read into retained knowledge and decisive action.

This is not a course you watch and forget. It is a live, 1-on-1 coaching programme, delivered through HPR Coaching hosted live sessions, tailored entirely to your starting point, your reading material, and your goals.

Every session is built around where you are, not where a generic curriculum assumes you should be.

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