Character Counter

Eight Stats From One Paste

This counter goes deeper than a plain word count. As you type it reports characters (everything, including spaces), characters without spaces, words, sentences, paragraphs, lines, reading time (200 wpm) and speaking time (130 wpm) — all at once. Below the stats, a frequency panel shows your ten most-used letters and digits.

Example: "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog." gives 44 characters, 36 without spaces, 9 words, 1 sentence — and the frequency panel shows o ×4 and e ×3 at the top.

Character Limits That Actually Matter

Most platforms enforce character limits, not word limits — which is why "characters with spaces" is usually the number you need:

Writing to a word budget instead? The word counter presents the word-level stats in a simpler layout.

Reading Time vs. Speaking Time

The two time estimates use different speeds because reading and speaking are different activities. Silent reading averages ~200 words per minute; a comfortable presentation pace is ~130 wpm. So an 800-word script is a 4-minute read but a 6–7 minute talk. If you're timing a speech, wedding toast or video voiceover, use the speaking figure — and add a buffer for pauses and audience reaction.

What the Frequency Panel Tells You

The Top Characters panel counts letters a–z and digits 0–9 (case-insensitive; spaces and punctuation are ignored). In normal English text, e, t, a and o dominate — if your top character is something unusual, that's often a sign of repeated boilerplate, encoded data, or a stuck key. It's also a quick classroom demo of the letter-frequency analysis used to break simple substitution ciphers.

Privacy

Everything runs entirely in your browser — nothing is sent to a server, so drafts, credentials-adjacent text and confidential documents never leave your machine.