How many words can a person say in one minute? Find out now, you will be surprised to learn the answer

Unless you work in radio or give lectures often, you may have no idea how many words a person can say in a minute. First of all, it depends on exactly what you are saying. A presentation, a formal discussion, etc. But even if we divide it into categories, the number of words per minute varies.

If you are talking to a friend, you may be speaking anywhere between 100 and 130 words per minute, while others say the number is between 120 and 150. However, the company Successful Speaking says that this number is higher and is between 150 and 180 words.

Whatever the average of a conversation, presentations should usually be a little slower. This is somewhere between 100 and 150 words per minute. The lecture, on the other hand, has a faster pace. VirtualSpeech analyzed 5 TED talks and reported that they ranged from 154 to 201 words per minute, an average of 173.

Audiobook broadcasters and radio producers speak around 150 to 160 words per minute. If you want to know who was the fastest talker of all, then it was Sean Shannon, who is also in the Guinness Book of Records.

In 1995, he managed to say 260 words of Shakespeare's monologue "To Live or Not to Live" in 23.8 seconds. Which means he could say 655 words in a minute.