Count words, characters, sentences, and reading time as you type.
This free word counter online tallies words, characters with and without spaces, sentences, and paragraphs the moment you type or paste text, and it also estimates reading time and speaking time. There is no submit button and no page reload, the seven counters update live with every keystroke.
Writers use a character counter to stay inside hard limits: meta descriptions truncate around 155 to 160 characters, X (Twitter) posts cap at 280, and many forms enforce their own maximums. Students and editors check word counts against essay or article targets, while speakers use the speaking-time estimate to fit a talk into its slot. The reading-time figure is based on 250 words per minute, a common average for adult silent reading, and speaking time uses 130 words per minute, a comfortable presentation pace.
Your text never leaves the browser. The counting happens entirely on your device with no upload, no account, and no storage, so it is safe to paste drafts, confidential documents, or unpublished work. Clear the box and the counts reset to zero instantly.
Put your draft into the Text box. You can paste an entire document or type from scratch, the counters track every change.
Words, characters with spaces, characters without spaces, sentences, and paragraphs update instantly below the text box.
Reading time assumes 250 words per minute and speaking time assumes 130 words per minute, so you can size an article or rehearse a talk against its slot.
Trim or expand the text directly in the box and watch the counts move, no need to re-paste or recalculate.
At a typical presentation pace of about 130 words per minute, a 5 minute speech is roughly 650 words. Most speakers land between 600 and 750 words depending on pauses and delivery speed.
This tool shows both figures: characters with spaces counts every character you typed including whitespace, while characters without spaces strips all whitespace first. Platform limits like the 280-character cap on X count spaces.
Reading time divides your word count by 250 words per minute, a widely used average for adult silent reading, and rounds up to the next whole minute. Dense or technical material will take longer in practice.
About 4 minutes of silent reading at 250 words per minute, or roughly 8 minutes spoken aloud. As printed text, 1000 words is around two pages single-spaced or four pages double-spaced in a standard 12-point font.
Yes. All counting runs locally in your browser, the text is never uploaded, logged, or stored, so unpublished drafts and confidential documents stay on your device.
Sentences are detected by terminal punctuation such as periods, question marks, and exclamation points, and paragraphs are separated by blank lines. Unusual formatting like abbreviations or single line breaks can shift the counts slightly.
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