Poll: Talking like an English machinegun.

[Segadroid]

English is my second language, but with a bit of practice I can talk like 95 words a minute. I can talk with 110 word a minute in my first language(I'm Dutch), but that's not what I'm asking.

What I'm asking is: How fast can you talk in English?

How to measure:

You need a stopwatch, 3 different kinds of text of at least 300 words and a friend.
When your friend starts the stopwatch, read the first text out loud as fast as you can in one minute. Look how far you got and count the words you've read. Then do the same thing with the second and third text.

Then there's a bit of math.

For example you got 101 words on the first text and 85 and 117 on the second and third.

(101+85+117)/3= an average of 101 words.

 

[Kaboose the Moose]

Quite fast I would imaging. It's my first language but I don't know how fast I talk, how do you even find that out?.

That sounds like an utter chore and all my friends will leave me if I ask them to time my words...but for the sake of contributing something to the OP, I shall say 100 words a minute; because a 100 is a nice round number.

 

[Shock and Awe]

I usually talk about 70 a minute, but I can talk really fast, upwards 150 or 160.

 

[Kollega]

Not sure. Even in Russian, it depends on whether i clearly know what i want to say. In English - doubly so. But if i know what i want to say, i guess i can talk pretty fast.

 

[TheNamlessGuy]

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[FactualSquirrel]

not that fast, it's just not built up like other languages which can be as fast as you like.

 

[DemonicVixen]

Quite fast I would imaging. It's my first language but I don't know how fast I talk, how do you even find that out?.

Get someone to count using a stopwatch.

OT: My natural tongue is also English. I used to be good at French until i hated the teacher in high school and stopped learning it, now i can't remember a word of it. I can also do that weird commentary thing like what you get at auctions and racecourses where the mic person talks so fast you can barely make out what he is saying (im not as fast as they can be but i can get a fair few words within a minute or less).

 

[Segadroid]

Quite fast I would imaging. It's my first language but I don't know how fast I talk, how do you even find that out?.

You need a stopwatch, 3 different kinds of text of at least 300 words and a friend.
When your friend starts the stopwatch, read the first text out loud as fast as you can in one minute. Look how far you got and count the words you've read. Then do the same thing with the second and third text.

Then there's a bit of math.

For example you got 101 words on the first text and 85 and 117 on the second and third.

(101+85+117)/3= an average of 101 words.

 

[orangebandguy]

I talk fast-ish. You know it never occured to me to stop and count.

 

[Monkfish Acc.]

I don't have a clue.
Probably under fifty, though.
Mostly because my mouth would completely ignore everything my brain is telling it to do and just garble the crap out of everything.

 

[Jedamethis]

I could count right now.

Well, I said ten in about a second, so that's around 600 a minute?

 

[Daveman]

How in the hell do you measure such things?

It depends on how fast I'm thinking that day.

 

[ChocoFace]

i honestly don't know but im thinking it's around 90-110 words.

 

[TimeLord]

I can rant forever about everything very fast

 

[GrinningManiac]

an aquaintance of mine can read so fast she's never asked to at school, because noone can understand her at those speeds

me? ridiculously fast, but I have the decency to slow down for average people

 

[Deleted]

Ababuboabuaobuboauboaoabuboaoabuobaoaoabouaboabbauoab. That's how I sound when I talk as fast as I can.

 

[Cowabungaa]

Not a lot, my verbal skills are awful compared to my writing skills. Not that thóse are fantastic, but at least somewhat grammatically correct. Spoken sentences usually come out very garbled. I need to practice.

 

[wordsmith]

What I'm asking is: How fast can you talk in English?

Your target:

 

[Cabisco]

I have no idea, and i don't think i could con a friend into timing me. But i'm safe knowing the fact that speaking quickly doesn't mean speaking well.