SRS Starter Kit: The Definitive Guide to Your First 10 Days in Speed Reading

You read at the speed you learned between the ages of five and eight. That speed became a habit. The habit became a ceiling. And for most adults, that ceiling has been quietly limiting every book, every report, every article they have read since — without ever announcing its presence.

That is not a criticism. It is a mechanical fact, and it is the single most important thing to understand before you start this programme. You are not a slow reader. You are a reader whose speed was set decades ago and never updated. The exercise in this programme changes that.

What happens in ten days

The SRS Starter Kit gives you one structured exercise — the Simple Speed Reading Exercise — and asks you to practise it four to five times a day, fifteen to thirty minutes total, for ten days. You use a pencil as a pacer and a fiction book you already know well. The exercise is simple enough to learn in a single session. What makes it powerful is the daily repetition across ten days.

Most students feel a measurable shift in reading speed within the first two to three days. Not because of a trick, but because the exercise shows your brain that it is safe to move faster than your current habit allows. The speed was always available. The exercise removes the brake.

Everything you need is included

This is a complete, self-contained programme — built on the principle that it should serve you entirely on its own, without requiring coaching, upsells, or further purchases.

The programme contains the complete four-step Simple Speed Reading Exercise with daily training schedules and Teacher's Notes for all ten days. Five exercise variations are introduced across the later days — each one targets a specific aspect of reading development. Four Key Habit articles build the foundation that makes the speed gains permanent. A reading comprehension test on Day 1 and Day 10 gives you hard numbers on your progress. The Day 10 Reading Diagnostic assesses where your remaining friction sits and gives you a personalised recommendation for what to do next.

Bonus articles address speed reading with ADHD and dyslexia — directly, honestly, and without overclaiming.

And if you get stuck at any point during the programme, an AI Teaching Assistant built into the course knows the complete material and can answer your questions immediately — which exercise to use, which variation fits your situation, how to interpret your diagnostic results.

What this is not

This is not a promise that you will become a speed reader in ten days. It is a structured training system that gives you every tool you need to build a permanently faster reading baseline — if you do the daily work. Results depend on where you start and how consistently you practise. I do not make specific promises about words-per-minute because every reader's starting point is different.

What I do promise is that the programme is complete. If you follow it, you will understand exactly what has been limiting your reading speed, exactly how to change it, and exactly where to go next.

"I have tried speed reading before."

Most speed reading products teach a technique and hope you apply it. This programme works differently. It starts by addressing the beliefs that hold your reading speed in place — the assumption that slower means better comprehension, that your current speed is fixed, that some people are simply slow readers. The ten-day structure dismantles those beliefs through your own daily experience, not through argument. You feel the shift yourself.

"What about comprehension?"

Speed and comprehension are not in tension. They are in sequence. The first days focus on speed only — your comprehension may temporarily dip during the overspeed exercises, and that is expected and by design. The programme then builds comprehension tools and habit work across the later days. Speed first, because without it the comprehension tools have no room to operate.

You own this for life

You pay forty-seven dollars once. No subscription. No renewal. No expiry. The programme is designed to be used repeatedly — run a fresh ten-day sprint whenever you want. The second sprint is more valuable than the first, because the mechanics are already familiar and you train at a higher level from Day 1.

The guarantee

If you follow the instructions, do the exercises for 28 consecutive days, report your progress, ask for help when you need it, and still do not double your reading speed — full refund, no questions asked. I also offer a 12-month satisfaction guarantee for students who complete the programme at least three times. Both guarantees require that you do the work — because that is how the programme is designed. Full details at speedreadingsimplified.com/guarantee.

— Jon Bjarnason, Founder of Speed Reading Simplified