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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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3,271 h
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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 →

88/1007:02Buttery sweet dinner rollsB2-C2 · ~8,000 words · very fastAdam Ragusea88/1001:17:28Why NASA's Next Space Suits are not Pressurized to 14.7psi - Smarter Every Day 296B2-C2 · ~6,000 words · very fastSmarterEveryDay88/10010:27AUTOWhat To Salvage vs. Demo | Colorado Rehab - Episode 1B2-C1 · ~5,000 words · very fastMatt Risinger88/10010:27AUTOZero Thermal Bridging? UNBELIEVABLE Window performanceB1-C1 · ~5,000 words · very fastMatt Risinger88/10020:48AUTOI Tried Every Fast Food Burger In AmericaB2-C1 · ~5,000 words · very fastJoshua Weissman88/1001:33:27AUTOMercedes Unimog Returns! New Porsche Cayman? Can Nissan Save Itself? THIS CAR POD! EP91B1-C1 · ~4,000 words · very fastDoug DeMuro88/1002:01:47AUTOInsulin Expert: How To 'Drain' Your Liver of Fat (Do This!)B2-C2 · ~9,000 words · very fastThe Diary Of A CEO88/1001:30:32AUTOLucid In Trouble, Altima Is Dead, Volkswagen Makes Cuts, The LFA Is Electric! THIS CAR POD! EP120B2-C2 · ~5,000 words · very fastDoug DeMuro88/10020:11AUTOAdam Richman Works 12 Hours on a Maine Lobster Boat | Pro MovesB2-C1 · ~4,000 words · very fastFirst We Feast88/1007:42Chimps Love "People Watching" TooB1-C1 · ~7,000 words · very fastSciShow88/10017:07How Sensors Keep Bridges From Collapsing (and other structures too)B2-C2 · ~8,000 words · very fastPractical Engineering88/10020:00AUTOI Tried The Best Sandwich In AmericaB1-C2 · ~5,000 words · very fastJoshua Weissman88/10016:20AUTOThe Airtightness Test Every Builder Should Be Doing Mid-BuildB1-C2 · ~5,000 words · very fastMatt Risinger88/10015:43Why Recessions HappenB2-C1 · ~6,000 words · very fastJohnny Harris88/1001:39:01AUTOFerrari's Gated Manual, Fiat Topolino & Why Doug Won't Buy a Supercar! THISCARPOD! EP119B2-C1 · ~5,000 words · very fastDoug DeMuro88/1003:21:04AUTOAtheist vs Christian vs Spiritual Thinker: Is Not Believing In God Causing More Harm Than Good?!B2-C1 · ~5,000 words · very fastThe Diary Of A CEO88/1001:22:01AUTOAmerican Dynamism (with Katherine Boyle)B2-C1 · ~5,000 words · very fastAcquired88/1008:25AUTOHow to eat in a blackoutB1-C1 · ~6,000 words · very fastAdam Ragusea88/10020:36World's Fastest Car Vs Cheetah!B2-C1 · ~4,000 words · very fastMrBeast88/1009:21Every Phone Should Copy This!B2-C2 · ~7,000 words · very fastMarques Brownlee88/10043:21AUTOEntering America’s Most Religious CommunityB2-C2 · ~5,000 words · very fastDrew Binsky88/10021:47I Went To The Poorest Slum In The PhilippinesB1-C1 · ~4,000 words · very fastDrew Binsky88/1001:03:42AUTOLVPs are breeding rot...UNLESS you do this!B2-C2 · ~6,000 words · very fastMatt Risinger88/10017:22How Parmesan Cheese Is MadeB1-C1 · ~5,000 words · very fastJoshua Weissman

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
1TED-Ed279150B2-C2medium19219 h
2National Geographic278957B2-C2medium6581 h
3TED228758B1-C2fast6916 h
4Essential Craftsman338763B1-C2fast13739 h
5Real Engineering478664C1-C2fast7630 h
6Technology Connections569067B2-C2fast8947 h
7Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell138868B2-C2fast6013 h
8Veritasium489269B2-C2fast11856 h
9Lex Fridman278970B1-C1fast127377 h
10StarTalk409170B2-C2fast10998 h
11Acquired339171B2-C2fast86221 h
12Yes Theory288772B1-B2fast9048 h
13ColdFusion558672B2-C2fast11838 h
14Vox439072B2-C2fast9351 h
15First We Feast399772B1-C1fast12241 h
16Andrew Huberman459574B2-C2fast145238 h
17Practical Engineering598975B2-C2fast14241 h
18Johnny Harris499075B2-C2fast11762 h
19Wendover Productions529176B2-C2fast12947 h
20SciShow559676B2-C2fast19748 h
21Jimmy Kimmel Live368776B1-C1fast19742 h
22WIRED269177B1-C2fast7328 h
23Vanity Fair389178B1-C1fast9628 h
24The Diary Of A CEO389279B1-C2fast152316 h
25All-In Podcast459081B2-C2fast132143 h
26PowerfulJRE409081B1-C1very fast99269 h
27Matt Risinger559283B2-C2very fast14054 h
28Doug DeMuro659083B1-C2very fast141100 h
29The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon408984B1-C1very fast326 h
30Drew Binsky409785B1-C1very fast13272 h
31SmarterEveryDay599186B1-C2very fast5432 h
32Adam Ragusea249687B2-C2very fast18654 h
33Marques Brownlee539287B2-C2very fast12728 h
34MrBeast759487B1-B2very fast9234 h
35This Old House589488B1-C2very fast9046 h
36Mark Rober729589B2-C2very fast4315 h
37Joshua Weissman649690B2-C2very fast11745 h
383Blue1Brown809491B2-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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