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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 →

91/1008:36AUTOTraditional Vented VS Unvented CrawlspacesB2-C2 · ~10,000 words · very fastMatt Risinger91/10044:59The News You Missed in 2021, From Every Country in the World (Part 2)C1-C2 · ~12,000 words · very fastWendover Productions91/10052:11Exploration & Epiphany | Guest video by Paul DancstepB2-C2 · ~8,000 words · very fast3Blue1Brown91/10010:31A Scientist’s Guide to Wrinkle-Free ClothesB2-C2 · ~8,000 words · very fastSciShow91/10012:48Framework 13 Pro: The Modular Laptop is Real!B2-C2 · ~8,000 words · very fastMarques Brownlee91/10029:38Historian Answers Cold War Questions | Tech Support | WIREDB2-C2 · ~7,000 words · very fastWIRED91/10045:59100 Best Food HacksB2-C2 · ~7,000 words · very fastJoshua Weissman91/10011:47On sage, phytochemicals and dudes who won't eat plantsB2-C2 · ~10,000 words · very fastAdam Ragusea91/1009:51Traditional 1924 caesar salad — raw eggs, tableside serviceB2-C2 · ~7,000 words · very fastAdam Ragusea91/10016:50Hamming codes part 2: The one-line implementationB2-C2 · ~8,000 words · very fast3Blue1Brown91/10034:35Olympiad level counting (Generating functions)B2-C2 · ~8,000 words · very fast3Blue1Brown91/10017:01What makes a great math explanation? | SoME2 resultsB2-C2 · ~9,000 words · very fast3Blue1Brown91/10021:45AUTOI Tested Viral Tik Tok RecipesB2-C2 · ~8,000 words · very fastJoshua Weissman91/10011:13AUTOI Made REAL Boneless WingsB2-C2 · ~10,000 words · very fastJoshua Weissman91/10013:15A pretty reason why Gaussian + Gaussian = GaussianB2-C2 · ~10,000 words · very fast3Blue1Brown91/10010:47So This is Peak FoldableB2-C2 · ~9,000 words · very fastMarques Brownlee91/10026:12I Tried Every Famous Cartoon FoodB2-C2 · ~7,000 words · very fastJoshua Weissman91/10021:13Which Country Has The Best Breakfast?B2-C2 · ~7,000 words · very fastJoshua Weissman91/10033:52I Tried Food From Every State In AmericaB2-C2 · ~7,000 words · very fastJoshua Weissman91/10034:40But what is a Laplace Transform?B2-C2 · ~10,000 words · very fast3Blue1Brown91/10011:36Top 5 Android 16 Features: Big Visuals!B2-C2 · ~8,000 words · very fastMarques Brownlee91/1005:46The best way to become good at something might surprise you - David EpsteinB2-C2 · ~11,000 words · very fastTED-Ed91/1001:29:49AUTOPeptide Expert: What Do Peptides Actually Do? (EXPLAINED) - Dr Alex TatemB2-C2 · ~7,000 words · very fastThe Diary Of A CEO91/10016:00AUTOCMU Best Practices 2025 - ALL Builders NEED TO WATCH ThisB2-C2 · ~9,000 words · very fastMatt Risinger

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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