Reading time
calculator
Give your words a little room.
Estimate reading time from your text
and chosen words-per-minute pace.
Your text
How it works
Paste your text
Paste the passage you want
to read or speak aloud.
Choose a pace
Enter the words per minute
you want to assume.
Read the estimate
We estimate the duration and
round up to a whole second.
Letter/number groups count; internal apostrophes stay; hyphens split. Pace is an assumption.
Questions, Answered.
Is 200 WPM my personal reading speed?
No. It is the example assumption. Enter a pace you want to model; this estimate does not measure comprehension, fluency or your personal speed.
How are words counted?
Unicode letter/number runs count as groups, allowing internal straight or curly apostrophes. Hyphens split: self-paced counts 2. Decimal 2.5 counts 2. This is an estimator rule, not linguistic segmentation for every language.
How is the duration rounded?
Raw duration is 60×words/WPM. The main headline rounds upward to a whole second. Empty text gives 0 words and 0 seconds; no delivery pauses are added.