Words
0
Chars (with spaces)
0
Chars (no spaces)
0
Sentences
0
Paragraphs
0
Lines
0
Reading Time
0 min
Speaking Time
0 min
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About Word Counter
The Word Counter is a real-time text analysis tool designed for writers, editors, students, and SEO content creators. Tracking length limits is a common requirement for essays, blog posts, social media, and ad copies. Our word counter provides a detailed breakdown of your text length, including word counts, character counts (with/without spaces), sentences, paragraphs, and estimates for reading and speaking times.
How it Works
Simply type or paste your text into the input textarea above. The application monitors the input change event and runs text-parsing algorithms in real-time. It splits words by whitespace, sentences by punctuation, and paragraphs by line breaks, updating the metrics instantly as you type.
Key Features
- Real-Time Counting: Metrics update instantly as you type.
- Detailed Metrics: Counts words, characters, sentences, paragraphs, and lines.
- Time Estimates: Calculates reading and speaking times.
- Completely Local: Your text is processed in your browser and never saved.
Technical Details
The word counter uses regular expressions to parse text. Words are split using /\s+/ to handle double spaces and tabs. Characters with spaces is the string length, while characters without spaces replaces all whitespace character classes (/\s/g) first. Reading time is calculated at 200 words per minute, and speaking time at 130 words per minute.