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.
Choose how to practise
Both measure your real speaking rate. Pick one to begin.
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.
Read a script aloud
Nothing is recorded and no microphone is used — this only measures time.
The words move at your target pace and you keep up with them, which is what trains
the habit. Scroll the passage to look back — it carries on following you.
Target
140 wpm
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60
220 wpm
Start reading and your pace appears here.
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.