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Its videos run from 80 to 94 on a 0–100 scale, with a median of 91. That is a comparatively tight 14-point spread, so what you land on is fairly predictable. 59 of its 59 scored videos pass 40. 100% carry human-written subtitles rather than auto-generated ones.

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videos scored
91
median difficulty
8094
full range
25 h
of material
A2-B2
vocabulary range

Read the vocabulary range as the channel’s own spread: in three of every four of its videos the vocabulary demand starts at the lower level or above, and stays at the upper one or below. The upper bound is how far the rare words reach, not how hard the speech is — a channel built on one specialised subject carries a high ceiling on perfectly ordinary sentences. For whether you can keep up, read the median difficulty next to it: that one is mostly about how fast people talk.

Where its videos actually sit

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Each bar counts this channel’s videos in one ten-point slice of the scale. A median alone hides that shape, which is why the ranking shows a range rather than a single level. Bars from 40 up are dimmed because the advanced shelf begins at 43 — that is the part of the channel that stops being an easy watch.

Its hardest videos — where the channel stops being easy

Simulating and understanding phase change | Guest video by Vilas Winstein
score 94A2-C1~11,000 words41 minvery fast
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The Physics of Euler's Formula | Laplace Transform Prelude
score 93A2-C1~10,000 words28 minvery fast
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How might LLMs store facts | Deep Learning Chapter 7
score 93A2-C1~9,000 words23 minvery fast
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Answering viewer questions about refraction
score 93A2-C1~9,000 words13 minvery fast
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The AI that solved IMO Geometry Problems | Guest video by @Aleph0
score 92A2-B2~9,000 words14 minvery fast
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Where my explanation of Grover’s algorithm failed
score 92A2-B2~9,000 words16 minvery fast
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Why do prime numbers make these spirals? | Dirichlet’s theorem and pi approximations
score 92A2-B2~10,000 words22 minvery fast
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How are holograms possible?
score 92A2-B2~9,000 words46 minvery fast
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Why Laplace transforms are so useful
score 92A2-B2~10,000 words23 minvery fast
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How (and why) to raise e to the power of a matrix | DE6
score 92A2-B2~8,000 words27 minvery fast
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