Text Statistics Calculator

It assumes an average adult silent reading speed of 238 words per minute, then converts the word count into whole seconds. A short 11-word snippet rounds to about 1 second, while a 500-word article is a little over two minutes.

By counting terminating marks: periods, question marks and exclamation marks. A run of several such marks together, like an ellipsis or an interrobang, counts as one ending. Text with no terminator returns zero sentences.

Paragraphs are blocks of text separated by one or more blank lines. A single hard line break inside a block does not start a new paragraph, so a wrapped address on consecutive lines still counts as one paragraph.

A run of letters or numbers, optionally joined by one apostrophe or hyphen, so contractions like don't and compounds like well-known each count as one word rather than being split at the punctuation.

Unique words are distinct words compared without regard to case, so The and the count as the same word. In the fox sentence, the and The collapse to one, giving nine unique words out of ten total.

Average word length is the total characters across all words divided by the word count, rounded to two decimals. The longest word is the one with the most characters, and if several tie, the first one in the text wins.

Yes. Word detection and character counting are Unicode-aware, so accented letters, non-Latin scripts and emoji are handled properly. Characters are counted by code point, so an emoji counts as one character rather than several.

Characters counts everything including spaces, tabs and line breaks. Characters without spaces strips all whitespace, which is useful when a limit, such as a form field, ignores spaces or you want the pure letter and symbol count.

Yes. All statistics are computed in your browser and nothing is uploaded, so even long or sensitive drafts never leave your device.