diff --git a/.github/workflows/examples.yaml b/.github/workflows/examples.yaml
index 8fb312b1..df96a9e3 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/examples.yaml
+++ b/.github/workflows/examples.yaml
@@ -35,10 +35,11 @@ jobs:
           key: readme-${{ hashFiles('pyproject.toml') }}
 
       - name: Install dependencies
-        run: python -m pip install -e '.[readme]'
+        run: python -m pip install -e ".[readme]"
 
       - name: Run examples in the README
-        run: python -m pytest --codeblocks .github README.md documentation
+        run: >-
+          python -m pytest --codeblocks .github README.md documentation -n auto
 
   examples:
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 78a008d0..27711b04 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -68,6 +68,7 @@ optional-dependencies = {dev = [
     "pdoc3",
 ], readme = [
     "pytest-codeblocks",
+    "pytest-xdist",
 ]}
 readme = "README.md"
 requires-python = ">=3.10"