Paste what you plan to say. Because we know exactly how many words it contains,
we can measure your real speaking rate while you read it aloud — no transcription, no guessing.
That is the difference between this and a stopwatch: a stopwatch tells you how long you took,
this tells you how fast you were.
1. Your answer
Type it, paste it, or use the transcript from one of your sessions.
Words
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Sentences
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At 130 wpm
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the comfortable middle
Range
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110–150 wpm
2. Or just speak — we will count the words
Record yourself, and the words are counted from what you actually said.
Transcribed on our server with an open-source model — it never goes to a third party,
and it costs nothing, so practise as often as you like. Nothing is kept unless you ask.
3. Or read a script aloud
Press start, read the whole thing, press stop. Nothing is recorded and no
microphone is used — this only measures time.
0.0s
60
220 wpm
Start reading and your pace appears here.
4. Or follow a pacer
A quiet visual beat at your chosen rate. Read along with it until the speed
feels normal — that is how pace becomes a habit rather than something you think about.
Beats once per word.
Why 110–150. It is the band interview boards and audiences find easy to
follow — fast enough to hold attention, slow enough to be understood. Below it you sound
laboured; above it listeners stop retaining and start bracing. It is a range, not a target: the
aim is to sit inside it comfortably, not to hit a number.
Pace against speaking time, not wall-clock. Your session scorecard measures pace only
while you are actually voicing, so pauses do not make a fast talker look measured. This page
measures wall-clock across the whole reading, so if you pause a lot the two will differ — and
that difference is itself worth noticing.