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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 →

90/10020:26Car Thief Gets Instant Karma (the FINAL Glitterbomb 6.0)B2-C1 · ~6,000 words · very fastMark Rober90/10018:21Car Thieves vs the Almost Final GlitterBomb 5.0B2-C1 · ~6,000 words · very fastMark Rober90/10033:20I Ate Every Famous Video Game FoodB2-C2 · ~7,000 words · very fastJoshua Weissman90/1005:45Peach cobbler that's cakey, not mushyB2-C1 · ~7,000 words · very fastAdam Ragusea90/10023:12ASK This Old House | Storm Door, Privet Hedge (S9 E8) FULL EPISODEB2-C2 · ~7,000 words · very fastThis Old House90/10010:34My best mashed potatoes yetB2-C2 · ~6,000 words · very fastAdam Ragusea90/10031:46Which Theme Park has the Best Food?B2-C2 · ~7,000 words · very fastJoshua Weissman90/10032:19Reinventing Entropy | Compression is Intelligence Part 1B2-C2 · ~8,000 words · very fast3Blue1Brown90/10014:35We Helped 100 Kids Fight CancerB2-C2 · ~5,000 words · very fastMrBeast90/10044:52How (and why) to take a logarithm of an imageB2-C1 · ~8,000 words · very fast3Blue1Brown90/10016:24AUTOI Tested Viral Food MythsB2-C2 · ~7,000 words · very fastJoshua Weissman90/1001:09:21AUTOThe State of Modern War: Palantir & Anduril Execs on Drones, AI, and the End of Traditional WarfareB2-C2 · ~7,000 words · very fastAll-In Podcast90/10011:03The Hidden Tech Behind an NBA Broadcast!B2-C1 · ~7,000 words · very fastMarques Brownlee90/10024:11The disappearing and unappreciated art of audible alertsB2-C2 · ~7,000 words · very fastTechnology Connections90/10025:53AUTO4 Things Every Well-Built House NeedsB2-C2 · ~6,000 words · very fastMatt Risinger90/10012:48AUTO3 Minute vs 3 Hour vs 3 Day Fried RiceB2-C2 · ~6,000 words · very fastJoshua Weissman90/10024:28AUTOThe Cadillac Optiq Is Good EnoughB2-C2 · ~7,000 words · very fastDoug DeMuro90/10028:20AUTONasdaq CEO Reveals the Next Era Of The Stock Market - Adena Friedman | All-In SummitB2-C2 · ~7,000 words · very fastAll-In Podcast90/10023:12ASK This Old House | Solar Hot Water, Deck Posts (S9 E21) FULL EPISODEB2-C1 · ~6,000 words · very fastThis Old House90/10011:19Spice Relief According to ScienceB2-C2 · ~10,000 words · very fastSciShow90/10023:12This Old House | Shingles, Ductwork, Lights (S32 E8) | FULL EPISODEB2-C1 · ~6,000 words · very fastThis Old House90/10014:287 First Aid Myths (And What To Do Instead)B2-C2 · ~6,000 words · very fastSciShow90/10023:12ASK This Old House | Groundcover, Electrical Box (S9 E6) FULL EPISODEB2-C2 · ~6,000 words · very fastThis Old House90/1003:09:35How to Rewire Your Brain & Learn Faster | Dr. Michael KilgardB2-C2 · ~7,000 words · very fastAndrew Huberman

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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