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Reading and speaking time for any essay, speech or script — with Chinese, Japanese and Korean counted by character, not by space.
Paste some text and I’ll time it.
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Plain arithmetic. Nothing clever.
No AI and no guessing at difficulty. Just counting and dividing — so you can check the answer yourself.
- 01
Count words and characters
Chinese, Japanese and Korean characters are counted one by one. Everything else is split on spaces and counted as words.
- 02
Divide by a steady pace
Reading: 225 words a minute, or 500 CJK characters a minute. Speaking: 150 words or 300 characters a minute.
- 03
Round up
The total is rounded up to the next whole minute, with a one-minute floor — a 2,000-word essay is 8.9 minutes, so it shows 9.
Every article you save
gets timed for you.
My Minute Mix measures reading time when you save an article, so you never paste anything. Tell it you have 5, 15, 30 or 60 minutes — or a custom number — and it hands you a mix that fits.
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