Terms of Service & Conditions of Use

1. Agreement to Terms and Binding Acceptance

Welcome to OnlineReadingSpeedTest.com ("the Website," "the Platform," "we," "us," or "our"), an independent educational web application created and maintained by Gourav Das. By accessing, browsing, interacting with, or taking reading speed assessments on OnlineReadingSpeedTest.com, you ("the User") agree to be bound by these Terms of Service, all applicable laws and regulations, and agree that you are solely responsible for compliance with any applicable local, national, or international laws.

If you do not agree with any of these terms, conditions, or disclaimers, you are prohibited from using or accessing this site. Your continued utilization of our diagnostic timers, WPM calculators, reading comprehension batteries, or embeddable widgets constitutes an irrevocable acceptance of these terms.

2. Educational Purpose & Non-Clinical Diagnostic Disclaimer

The reading speed assessments, comprehension quizzes, Words Per Minute (Gross WPM) metrics, Effective Reading Speed (EWPM) throughput calculations, and normative population percentile curves provided on OnlineReadingSpeedTest.com are designed strictly for educational, informational, and self-assessment purposes.

While our methodology is grounded in published peer-reviewed reading research literature—including Marc Brysbaert’s 2019 meta-analysis (Journal of Memory and Language), Keith Rayner’s 2016 eye-movement research (Psychological Science in the Public Interest), and Ronald Carver’s 1990 standardized word-length theory—our assessments do not constitute medical, psychological, psychiatric, or clinical diagnostic instruments.

• No Medical Diagnosis: This platform cannot diagnose developmental dyslexia, reading disorders, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), visual convergence insufficiency, or sensory processing deficits.
• Professional Consultation Required: Individuals seeking formal cognitive, psycho-educational, or clinical diagnostic evaluations must consult a licensed educational psychologist, speech-language pathologist, or board-certified medical specialist.
• Hardware & Environmental Variance: Test scores can fluctuate depending on client device display quality, refresh rate, ambient lighting, screen glare, ocular fatigue, and emotional focus. Scores should be treated as contextual estimates rather than immutable cognitive traits.

3. Permitted Educational, Classroom & Personal Use License

We grant you a non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable, worldwide license to access, view, and interact with the materials, assessment engines, and calculators on OnlineReadingSpeedTest.com for personal development, academic study, and classroom instruction, subject to the following express conditions:

• K-12 & University Classrooms: Educators, school teachers, university professors, and literacy tutors are encouraged to use the website and its embeddable widgets with students without payment or written permission, provided that the original branding, attribution, and links to OnlineReadingSpeedTest.com remain intact.
• Non-Commercial Restriction: You may not sell, sub-license, commercialize, or bundle our assessment algorithms, reading passages, or scoring sheets into any paid product, SaaS subscription, or commercial test-preparation curriculum without prior written authorization.
• Attribution Standard: Any academic research, syllabus, or educational curriculum that cites our data models or normative distributions must provide appropriate citation referencing Gourav Das and OnlineReadingSpeedTest.com (see our Methodology Citation Guide).

4. Platform Integrity, Anti-Cheating & Prohibited Conduct

To protect test reliability, comparative validity, and server availability for all global learners, you agree that you will not:

• Deploy automated scripts, bots, spiders, crawlers, headless browsers (e.g., Puppeteer, Playwright, Selenium), or AI scrapers to systematically harvest, extract, or reproduce our passage libraries, comprehension questions, or underlying JavaScript logic.
• Artificially manipulate client-side JavaScript execution, modify performance.now() timestamps, or tamper with browser localStorage payloads to generate fraudulent assessment cards or falsify personal best records.
• Attempt to bypass, disable, or deconstruct the passage-locking mechanism that unmounts reading texts during comprehension question evaluation.
• Launch Denial of Service (DoS) attacks, automated rapid-fire HTTP requests, or any network flood designed to impair the availability, speed, or stability of our edge infrastructure.

5. Intellectual Property Rights & Passage Originality

All intellectual property rights in and to OnlineReadingSpeedTest.com—including its proprietary software code, visual design system, custom CSS styling, user interface architecture, interactive test island components, computational scoring formulas, and informational articles—are owned by Gourav Das.

The reading passages hosted within our assessment batteries are either:

• Original educational texts authored specifically for this platform, calibrated to exact Flesch-Kincaid grade levels and syllable distributions; or
• Public domain literary, historical, and scholarly texts edited and standardized to 5-character word benchmarks; or
• Brief, highly transformative educational excerpts referenced under the fair use doctrine for the sole purpose of assessing reading fluency and comprehension.

We strictly respect the intellectual property of third-party authors and test organizations. If you believe that any text on this website infringes upon your copyright, please notify us immediately with full statutory documentation via our designated copyright agent email below.

6. Standardized Test Trademarks & Nominative Fair Use

OnlineReadingSpeedTest.com provides pacing guides, reading simulations, and timing strategies for various standardized examinations. Any standardized test names, acronyms, or corporate trademarks referenced across this website—including but not limited to:

Comprehensive Non-Affiliation Declaration: OnlineReadingSpeedTest.com is an independent educational website created and operated solely by Gourav Das. This website is not affiliated with, endorsed by, authorized by, sponsored by, or in any way officially associated with the College Board, Educational Testing Service, the British Council, Cambridge Assessment, ACT Inc., GMAC, AAMC, LSAC, Instituto Cervantes, or any of their subsidiaries or affiliates.

All references to these examination names and acronyms are made strictly for nominative identification, educational commentary, and comparative guidance under the nominative fair use doctrine of United States trademark law and applicable international legal equivalents. No trademark holder has reviewed, authorized, or approved our assessment passages or pacing calculations.

7. Academic Literature Fair Use Commentary

Citations of peer-reviewed reading psychology, psycholinguistic, and educational literature—including but not limited to publications by Marc Brysbaert, Keith Rayner, Ronald Carver, and S. Keshav—are incorporated for educational commentary, scholarly reference, and scientific context under Section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Act.

OnlineReadingSpeedTest.com is an independent educational web tool. We do not claim any official partnership, joint venture, institutional affiliation, or endorsement from the aforementioned researchers, journals, university faculties, or academic publishing houses.

8. Disclaimer of Warranties

THE WEBSITE AND ALL MATERIALS, ASSESSMENT ENGINES, CALCULATORS, ARTICLES, AND EMBEDDABLE WIDGETS ARE PROVIDED ON AN "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE" BASIS WITHOUT WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED.

TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, GOURAV DAS AND ONLINEREADINGSPEEDTEST.COM DISCLAIM ALL WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE, ACCURACY, TIMELINESS, OR NON-INFRINGEMENT. WE DO NOT WARRANT THAT THE WEBSITE WILL OPERATE UNINTERRUPTED, SECURE, OR ERROR-FREE, NOR DO WE GUARANTEE THAT TEST RESULTS OR TIMING METRICS WILL BE ABSOLUTELY ACCURATE ACROSS EVERY CLIENT BROWSER CONFIGURATION.

9. Limitation of Liability

TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, IN NO EVENT SHALL GOURAV DAS, ONLINEREADINGSPEEDTEST.COM, OR ITS CONTRIBUTORS, HOSTING PARTNERS, OR CONTENT PROVIDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES (INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, DAMAGES FOR LOSS OF DATA, REVENUE, PROFITS, EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES, STANDARDIZED TEST SCORES, OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) ARISING OUT OF THE USE OR INABILITY TO USE THE MATERIALS ON THIS WEBSITE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.

BECAUSE ONLINEREADINGSPEEDTEST.COM IS PROVIDED 100% FREE OF CHARGE AND YOU HAVE PAID ZERO DOLLARS ($0.00 USD) TO ACCESS OR USE THIS SERVICE, YOU EXPRESSLY AGREE THAT OUR TOTAL AGGREGATE LIABILITY TO YOU FOR ALL CLAIMS, DISPUTES, OR DAMAGES IS STRICTLY ZERO DOLLARS ($0.00 USD). UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCE SHALL YOU BE ENTITLED TO CLAIM, DEMAND, SUE FOR, OR RECEIVE ANY MONETARY COMPENSATION, DAMAGES, REFUND, OR FINANCIAL PAYMENT WHATSOEVER FROM GOURAV DAS OR ONLINEREADINGSPEEDTEST.COM.

10. Third-Party Links & Advertising Partners

OnlineReadingSpeedTest.com may display outbound hyperlinks to third-party websites (such as official university publications, research repositories, dictionary resources, or educational partners) and may integrate certified advertising networks (including Google AdSense). We have not reviewed all content on external third-party sites and assume zero responsibility for their availability, editorial accuracy, or privacy practices.

The inclusion of an outbound hyperlink or advertisement does not imply endorsement by OnlineReadingSpeedTest.com. Your interactions with third-party sites or advertisers are governed entirely by their respective terms of service and privacy policies.

11. Governing Law, Severability & Terms Modifications

These Terms of Service shall be governed by and construed in accordance with generally accepted international web standards and the principles of commercial contract law, without giving effect to any choice of law rules. If any provision of these terms is deemed invalid, void, or unenforceable by an authoritative tribunal, that specific provision shall be severed without affecting the validity and enforceability of the remaining provisions.

We reserve the exclusive right to amend, revise, update, or replace these Terms of Service at any time without prior notice. Any changes will be posted directly to this page with an updated "Effective Date." By continuing to use the Website after updates are published, you agree to be legally bound by the revised Terms of Service.

12. Official Contact Information & Legal Notices

OnlineReadingSpeedTest.com was created and is actively maintained by Gourav Das as an independent open educational resource. For inquiries concerning these Terms of Service, copyright clearance, classroom licensing, or legal notifications, please reach out via our dedicated channels: