Tools · Auditions
The Runtime.
Paste the monologue and find out what you are actually holding: the spoken word count, the honest minutes and seconds at three paces, and whether it truly fits the slot you were given, before the room finds out for you.
Type or paste the scene. Names before a colon, or all-caps names on their own line, both read fine.
Twenty-five original sides, free to rehearse. Browse the wall.
Or upload the PDF
Choose a PDF
The text is lifted from it right here and dropped in the box.
Time the Lines
The count runs on this page. Nothing you paste or upload leaves it.
How the clock thinks
- How many words is a one-minute monologue?
- About 140 to 150 words at a spoken pace, and closer to 120 when the text wants air. That is the working rule this tool runs on: a spoken monologue lands near 145 words a minute, deliberate delivery nearer 120, and a real clip around 170. A one-minute piece written at 200 words is not a one-minute piece.
- What counts toward the runtime?
- Spoken words only. Stage directions are read with the eyes, not the clock, so parenthetical lines never count. With sides, you can time one role's lines or the whole scene top to bottom; for a self-tape, remember the slate takes its own ten seconds or so before a word of text is spoken.
- How accurate is the estimate?
- It gets you in the room, not to the frame. Pauses, transitions, and the laughs you hope for all take time the word count cannot see, and a piece built on silence can run half again longer than its words suggest. Treat the number as the floor, then confirm with a stopwatch on your own out-loud read.
- What does the tool read?
- A monologue pasted straight in, sides with character names (a name before a colon, or an all-caps name on its own line), a PDF read right in your browser, or any side from our free library. Everything happens on this page; nothing you paste or upload is sent or stored anywhere.
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