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5,230 videos from 45 channels, each scored from its own subtitle track — vocabulary load and speaking pace. Filter to your level, then watch it on YouTube.

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The number on each thumbnail is its difficulty score out of 100: mostly speaking pace, partly vocabulary load. How it is measured →

92/10027:40AUTOPerfect Plumbing Plan | Ep.6: The Testing One! Water Quality Testing, FiltrationB2-C2 · ~8,000 words · very fastMatt Risinger92/1007:20Chocolate custard marshmallow swirl 'ice cream'B2-C2 · ~9,000 words · very fastAdam Ragusea92/10013:55AUTOSecret Food Hacks I Learned In RestaurantsC1-C2 · ~9,000 words · very fastJoshua Weissman92/10037:01AUTOI Tried Breakfast From Every State In AmericaB2-C2 · ~8,000 words · very fastJoshua Weissman92/10030:38I Tried The Best Taco In The WorldB2-C2 · ~9,000 words · very fastJoshua Weissman92/10012:16Why charcoal is the first great cooking fuelB2-C2 · ~9,000 words · very fastAdam Ragusea92/1001:51:15Control Your Vagus Nerve to Improve Mood, Alertness & NeuroplasticityC1-C2 · ~14,000 words · very fastAndrew Huberman92/10016:23Where my explanation of Grover’s algorithm failedB2-C2 · ~9,000 words · very fast3Blue1Brown92/10022:20Why do prime numbers make these spirals? | Dirichlet’s theorem and pi approximationsB2-C2 · ~10,000 words · very fast3Blue1Brown92/10046:23How are holograms possible?B2-C2 · ~9,000 words · very fast3Blue1Brown92/10023:05Why Laplace transforms are so usefulB2-C2 · ~10,000 words · very fast3Blue1Brown92/10039:44The Scariest Chart in Electrical EngineeringB2-C2 · ~9,000 words · very fastVeritasium92/10032:157 Days Stranded in The ArcticB2-C2 · ~8,000 words · very fastMrBeast92/10015:54AUTOCooking For The World’s Strongest Man (10,000 Calories)C1-C2 · ~9,000 words · very fastJoshua Weissman92/1006:04AUTOToad in the hole (personal pan puddings)C1-C2 · ~8,000 words · very fastAdam Ragusea92/1001:15:32AUTOAnti-Aging Expert: Creatine Is The Fat Loss Secret Doctors Don’t Tell You - Dr. Darren CandowB2-C2 · ~10,000 words · very fastThe Diary Of A CEO92/10030:15Making Celebrity Chefs' Best Recipes But BetterB2-C2 · ~9,000 words · very fastJoshua Weissman92/10027:07How (and why) to raise e to the power of a matrix | DE6B2-C2 · ~8,000 words · very fast3Blue1Brown92/1008:17Lemonade, six slightly different waysC1-C2 · ~10,000 words · very fastAdam Ragusea92/10010:06Why We Can’t Find a Legal Limit for WeedB2-C2 · ~12,000 words · very fastSciShow92/10028:32I Tried Every Famous Mexican FoodB2-C2 · ~9,000 words · very fastJoshua Weissman92/10014:30AUTOTop 5 Dumb Foundation MistakesB2-C2 · ~9,000 words · very fastMatt Risinger92/10017:46AUTOWhy it's called devil's/angel's food cakeB2-C2 · ~9,000 words · very fastAdam Ragusea92/10018:48How to lie using visual proofsB2-C2 · ~10,000 words · very fast3Blue1Brown

English channels, ranked

Ranked by median difficulty, easiest first. The bar is a range, not a label — a channel typically spans a wide stretch of the scale, so one level would be false for its own hardest videos.

#ChannelLevel range (0–100)MedianVocabulary rangePaceVideosHours
1Easy English64831B1-B2medium13837 h
2English with Lucy88141B1-C2medium15049 h
3Learn English with Papa Teach Me107142B1-C1medium10620 h
4Rachel's English58849B1-C2medium14068 h
5TED-Ed279150B2-C2medium19219 h
6BBC Learning English07554B1-C2medium19130 h
7Speak English With Vanessa288556B1-B2fast17585 h
8National Geographic278957B2-C2medium6581 h
9TED228758B1-C2fast6916 h
10Essential Craftsman338763B1-C2fast13739 h
11Real Engineering478664C1-C2fast7630 h
12Learn English with Bob the Canadian438666B1-B2fast8834 h
13Technology Connections569067B2-C2fast8947 h
14Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell138868B2-C2fast6013 h
15Veritasium489269B2-C2fast11856 h
16Lex Fridman278970B1-C1fast127377 h
17StarTalk409170B2-C2fast10998 h
18Acquired339171B2-C2fast86221 h
19Yes Theory288772B1-B2fast9048 h
20ColdFusion558672B2-C2fast11838 h
21Vox439072B2-C2fast9351 h
22First We Feast399772B1-C1fast12241 h
23Andrew Huberman459574B2-C2fast145238 h
24Practical Engineering598975B2-C2fast14241 h
25Johnny Harris499075B2-C2fast11762 h
26Wendover Productions529176B2-C2fast12947 h
27SciShow559676B2-C2fast19748 h
28Jimmy Kimmel Live368776B1-C1fast19742 h
29WIRED269177B1-C2fast7328 h
30Vanity Fair389178B1-C1fast9628 h
31The Diary Of A CEO389279B1-C2fast152316 h
32All-In Podcast459081B2-C2fast132143 h
33PowerfulJRE409081B1-C1very fast99269 h
34Matt Risinger559283B2-C2very fast14054 h
35Doug DeMuro659083B1-C2very fast141100 h
36The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon408984B1-C1very fast326 h
37Drew Binsky409785B1-C1very fast13272 h
38SmarterEveryDay599186B1-C2very fast5432 h
39Adam Ragusea249687B2-C2very fast18654 h
40Marques Brownlee539287B2-C2very fast12728 h
41MrBeast759487B1-B2very fast9234 h
42This Old House589488B1-C2very fast9046 h
43Mark Rober729589B2-C2very fast4315 h
44Joshua Weissman649690B2-C2very fast11745 h
453Blue1Brown809491B2-C2very fast5824 h

The vocabulary range is each channel’s own spread, not a single verdict: in three of every four of its videos the vocabulary starts at the lower level or above and stays at the upper one or below. Its top end tracks how far the rare words reach, so a channel devoted to one subject sits high on it without being hard to follow — the median score is the column that answers that.

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