diff --git a/.github/workflows/main.yml b/.github/workflows/main.yml
index 443a8b33..4b35482a 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/main.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/main.yml
@@ -253,7 +253,7 @@ jobs:
           grep -q 'May not access' lib/beautiful/init.lua
 
       - name: Build
-        run: cd "${{ github.workspace }}/build" && make
+        run: cd "${{ github.workspace }}/build" && make -j3
 
       # Executable needs to be run once to provide coverage results
       - name: Install and run