Reading time calculatorCalculators

Reading time calculator. Minutes to read and speak.

Paste text or type a word count, keep the published average speed or set your own, and see how long it takes to read silently and aloud. A table shows the time at other speeds. Nothing leaves your browser.

Cost to you

Free

Runs in your browser. No signup, no API call, no limit per hour.

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runs in: none
API calls: none
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Use it now

Use the Reading time calculator here

It runs in your browser. Nothing you type is sent anywhere, there is no signup and no limit.

Reading time

To read: 27 s
To read aloud: 35 s
Words: 107

Time at other speeds
Words per minute	Time for 107 words
150	43 s
200	32 s
250	26 s
300	21 s
400	16 s

Default speeds from Brysbaert (2019), a meta-analysis of adult reading rate in English. Readers vary a lot, and dense or technical text reads slower.

Runs in your browser, nothing is sent anywhere.

Run it from your agent

Copy one prompt, give it to your agent.

Fill in the placeholder, paste it, and the agent runs the same job with current data on your looot account and shows the cost.

You give it: text, or a word count.
Billed per call, nothing while your agent is idle.
The agent shows the price before it calls.

Prompt: Reading time calculator

Use looot to add a reading time to these articles: [paste the URLs]. 1. Set up https://looot.ai/skill.md. 2. Search the catalog for a web page to markdown endpoint and check its price before you call. 3. Read each article and count its words. 4. Return a table with the URL, the word count and the reading time at 238 words a minute, rounded up to whole minutes.

Give this to your agent

Setup command

set up looot for Reading time calculator - https://looot.ai/free-tools/reading-time-calculator/skill.md

What comes back

What your agent gets from reading time calculator

Field names as the providers return them. The exact set varies by endpoint, and your agent reads it from the catalog.

reading time
speaking time
word count
time at five other speeds

Providers

Who can do this job today

Your agent picks the endpoint. These providers offer one right now, with the live price of their cheapest.

Context.dev$0.0025 / call

Cheapest priced endpoint of each provider, read from the looot catalog. Cheapest overall: $0.0025 per call.

Use it for

What people do with reading time calculator

Blog posts
Show readers a minutes-to-read line that matches the real length.
Talks and videos
Turn a script's word count into minutes before you record.
Content plans
Size posts by reading time instead of word count.
Whole sites
Have your agent read each article and add its reading time to a table.

Set up once

Three steps. Your agent does the rest.

Paste one prompt into your agent

Set up looot

Done, looot is connected.

Copy one prompt from /connect into Claude Code, Cursor, or any MCP agent. No SDK, no dashboard click-through first.

Your agent finds the right operation

Hunter$0.0265

Exa$0.0090

Diffbot$0.0032

The agent finds the operation it needs and sees the price first. It calls nothing blind.

You watch what it cost

Hunter$0.0265

Exa$0.0090

Diffbot$0.0032

Total$0.0387

Every call settles for its quoted price and lands in the ledger. You always know what ran and what it cost.

Keep going

Calculators
Word counter
Words, characters, sentences, paragraphs, reading and speaking time, and your top words, as you type.
Free, no signupno limit
Validators
Readability checker
Flesch reading ease, Flesch-Kincaid grade, sentence length and the long sentences to fix, for English text.
Free, no signupno limit
Converters
Website to markdown
Any public web page as clean markdown with headings and links, to copy or download as a .md file.
Runs a real API call$0.0025 / call

FAQ

Questions about reading time calculator

Divide the word count by a reading speed in words per minute. Paste your text or type the word count here and the tool does it, in minutes and seconds.

238 words per minute for silent reading of non-fiction and 183 for reading aloud, according to Brysbaert's 2019 meta-analysis of adult reading rate in English. Fiction reads a little faster.

About 4 minutes 12 seconds at 238 words a minute, and about 5 minutes 28 seconds read aloud at 183.

About 1,830 words at 183 words a minute. Pauses for slides or questions make the real count lower, so leave room.

Yes. Type any speed in words per minute for reading and for speaking. The table under the result shows five other speeds too.

The word count works for any language written with spaces. The default speeds come from studies of English readers, so set your own speed for other languages.

Yes. It runs in your browser, needs no account and has no limit.

For agents

tool: Reading time calculator
category: Calculators
input: Text, or a word count
output: reading time, speaking time, word count, time at five other speeds
endpoint: context-dev: context-dev-web-scrape-markdown
price: per call, read live from the catalog on the web page
web tool: runs in the visitor's browser, no API call, free and unlimited
schedule: on demand
setup: https://looot.ai/free-tools/reading-time-calculator/skill.md
llms.txt: https://looot.ai/llms.txt
updated: 2026-10-14

markdown /free-tools/reading-time-calculator.md

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