Words Per Minute Calculator
A speech is a pile of words and a clock. WPM is the only number that says whether they fit. If you do not know your pace, you find out in front of the room: too fast and the sentence dies, too slow and the room leaves it.
Enter your word count and how long you have to speak. That is the pace you need to finish on time.
WPM
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Enter a word count, minutes, and seconds, then calculate.
On the 100 Greatest, recorded WPM runs from 62 (MacArthur, Duty, Honor, Country) to 194 (Faulkner’s Nobel address). King’s I Have a Dream is 101. JFK’s inaugural is 100.