Paste any text to estimate reading time. Reading Time Estimator counts Chinese characters (≈300 / min) and English words (≈200 / min) separately, then combines them for a realistic total — perfect for bilingual blog posts, newsletters and docs where a single word-count rule gets it wrong.
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