Reading Time Estimator/Calculator

What is Reading Time Calculator?

Reading time calculator is an online tool for calculating estimated human reading time for the given text input.

A reading time calculator is a tool that estimates how long it will take to read a piece of text based on the length of the text and the reader's reading speed. To use a reading time calculator, you typically need to enter the length of the text (in words or characters) and your reading speed (in words per minute). The calculator will then give you an estimated reading time. For example, if you have a text that is 1000 words long and you read at a speed of 200 words per minute, a reading time calculator might estimate that it will take you about 5 minutes to read the text. Reading time calculators can be useful for a variety of purposes, such as estimating how long it will take to read an article, blog post, or other piece of written content, or for helping you plan your reading schedule. There are many different reading time calculators available online, and some word processing software, such as Microsoft Word, also includes a reading time calculator feature.

Our reading time calculator provides word reading time (word to time). That means it will tell you, how much time it will take to read your provided content. It gives words reading time in minutes. How long to read content is useful information for your content, articles, and blog post readers. So using our read time calculator you can provide timing for reading your content, article, and blog post readers. We are developing an estimated reading time calculator for pages, books, URLs, pdf, and ppt. Reading out loud time calculation may vary with regular reading time. Using our webtool, calculating reading time from word count is easy and straightforward. Reading time means how much time it will take to read on average for the given article. Our online average text reading time calculator also provides the word count. It is an English word reading time calculator. Other languages such as Chinese, Japanese, and Hindi reading time calculators will be added in a future version of our tools.

Use of reading time

You can use this reading time for your blog post, article, or email. You can give your reader an asumtion for the text reading. It may increase your readers interest for reading your content.

Read time calculator from URL

You can also calculate reading time form url. Our reading time calculator can extract text form URL. For that just type your page URL into input text box and click on Get Text button then our server will download URL content and will show word count and estimated reading time.

How reading time is calculated?

To calculate the reading time of a piece of content, you can use the following steps: Determine the length of the text: You can do this by counting the number of words in the text or by checking the word count in a word processor or other software. Determine your average reading speed: This will depend on your individual reading speed, which can vary based on factors such as your age, education level, and familiarity with the topic. As a rough estimate, many people read at a speed of around 200-250 words per minute. Divide the length of the text by your reading speed: For example, if you have a text that is 1000 words long and you read at a speed of 200 words per minute, it will take you about 5 minutes to read the text (1000 / 200 = 5). Adjust the estimate as needed: Keep in mind that this is just an estimate, and the actual reading time may vary based on factors such as the complexity of the text, the reader's familiarity with the topic, and other factors. Overall, calculating the reading time of a piece of content can be a useful way to plan your reading schedule and estimate how long it will take to read a particular piece of text.

Calculate reading time from .txt, .csv, word .docx, .ppt, .xlsx and .pdf file

For calculating reading time from a file please upload the file. Our tool will extract text from that file and analyze the word count and estimated reading time.