Word Counter — Reading Time
A reading-time estimator for writers planning blog posts, scripts, newsletters, and talks. It converts your word count into minutes at roughly 200 words per minute and rounds up, so you can size a draft to a slot — a two-minute read, a five-minute newsletter — before publishing. The full word, character, and sentence counts remain on screen so the estimate has its inputs in view.
Text statistics
22
Words
134
Characters
113
No spaces
2
Sentences
1
Paragraphs
1 min
Reading time
Reading time assumes about 200 words per minute. Everything is counted in your browser — the text is never uploaded or stored.
Turning word count into minutes
Reading speed varies, but 200 words per minute is a widely used average for adult silent reading of general-interest text. At that pace a 500-word post is about a three-minute read and a 1,000-word article is about five minutes. The tool rounds up to whole minutes, which is how most "X min read" labels behave.
Use it to fit content to context: spoken delivery is slower, often closer to 130 to 150 words per minute, so a script that reads in five minutes silently may run longer aloud. For video and presentations, treat the silent estimate as a floor and rehearse for the real timing.
Questions
- How many words is a one-minute read?
- About 200 words at the average silent reading pace this tool uses. A two-minute read is roughly 400 words, and so on.
- Is reading time the same as speaking time?
- No. People speak more slowly than they read silently — often 130 to 150 words per minute — so a script will usually take longer to say aloud than the silent reading estimate suggests.