Know what the count includes

This tool counts the text you enter, including Markdown markers and code. It treats whitespace-separated chunks as words, so languages without spaces need a different counting convention.

Count a short first draft

This eight-word example includes punctuation in its Unicode code point count. Reading time rounds up to one minute.

A useful first draft beats an empty page.

An estimate is not a measured reading speed

Forty words at 200 words per minute take 0.2 minutes. The display rounds up to a whole minute. Unicode code points differ from user-perceived characters.