Improve Podcast estimates that the average falls between 100 and 150 words per minute. But speeches are fairly often given at a quicker pace. VirtualSpeech crunched the numbers on five popular TED ...

Some participants were a lot faster than others. One person managed to type at 85 wpm, which is a lot quicker than the 52 wpm average for users of physical keyboards. Not only are there more ...

For starters, people speak much faster than they read or type. The average English speaker in the U.S. utters about 150 words per minute. Improvements in this field languished for a while but ...