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Practical Engineering

Its videos run from 59 to 89 on a 0–100 scale, with a median of 75. That is a comparatively tight 30-point spread, so what you land on is fairly predictable. 144 of its 144 scored videos pass 40. 100% carry human-written subtitles rather than auto-generated ones.

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videos scored
75
median difficulty
5989
full range
42 h
of material
A2-C1
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

How Different Spillway Gates Work
score 89A2-C1~9,000 words15 minvery fast
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The Bizarre Paths of Groundwater Around Structures
score 89A2-C2~14,000 words14 minfast
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How Sensors Keep Bridges From Collapsing (and other structures too)
score 88A2-B2~8,000 words17 minvery fast
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How Do You Steer a Drill Below The Earth?
score 87B1-C1~12,000 words15 minfast
Watch on YouTube ↗
How Do We Pump Sewage?
score 86B1-C1~12,000 words12 minfast
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Why Things Fall Off Cranes
score 86A2-B2~7,000 words12 minvery fast
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The Most Mindblowing Infrastructure in My City
score 85A2-B2~9,000 words9 minvery fast
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Is the World Really Running Out of Sand?
score 84A2-B2~8,000 words20 minvery fast
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How Wells & Aquifers Actually Work
score 84B1-C1~13,000 words14 minfast
Watch on YouTube ↗
How to Clean Sewage with Gravity
score 84B1-C1~13,000 words12 minfast
Watch on YouTube ↗

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