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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 →

71/1007:06A Bold Idea to Rebuild the Working Class | Molly Hemstreet | TEDB2-C1 · ~5,000 words · fastTED71/1006:48Anok Yai Gets Ready for the Met Gala | Vanity FairB1-C2 · ~4,000 words · fastVanity Fair71/1007:21Do Glass Bottles Shed More Microplastics Than Plastic?B2-C1 · ~6,000 words · fastSciShow71/1009:32The Genius Spiders Changing How We Think About BrainsC1-C2 · ~11,000 words · fastSciShow72/1005:32Hudson Williams Gets Ready for the Oscars | Vanity FairB2-C1 · ~6,000 words · fastVanity Fair72/1008:24Many Crystals Take Millions of Years to Form, Not TheseC1-C2 · ~19,000 words · fastSciShow72/1007:28How to Turn Cancer Into Brain CellsC1-C2 · ~10,000 words · fastSciShow72/1006:14Are plant-based substitutes healthier than meat? ⏲️ 6 Minute EnglishB2-C2 · ~9,000 words · fastBBC Learning English72/1009:45The Disappearing Star and The Oldest Story Ever ToldB2-C1 · ~5,000 words · fastSciShow72/1009:06Scientists Can't Explain Why Bird Nests Are So DifferentB2-C2 · ~10,000 words · fastSciShow72/1004:26The solution to our energy problems is … a toaster - Rachel YangB2-C2 · ~9,000 words · fastTED-Ed72/1009:17What Dinosaurs, Pyramids, and the Atomic Bomb Have in CommonB2-C2 · ~9,000 words · fastSciShow72/1008:11AUTOImportant Daily Life English: Gas Station VocabularyB1-B2 · ~3,000 words · fastSpeak English With Vanessa72/1008:15Mirror Bacteria Could Destroy All Life As We Know ItB2-C2 · ~9,000 words · fastSciShow72/1008:48Why store-bought baked goods taste so differentC1-C2 · ~10,000 words · fastAdam Ragusea72/1008:44The Earth Keeps Making Mountains in Colorado and Scientists Don’t Know WhyC1-C2 · ~12,000 words · fastSciShow72/1007:33Inside the mind of a drummer | Think Like A MusicianB2-C2 · ~6,000 words · fastTED-Ed72/1006:06Rebuilding A Forest? Just Add TermitesC1-C2 · ~14,000 words · fastSciShow73/1008:25How Dogs Can Help Us Prevent Cleft PalatesC1-C2 · ~17,000 words · fastSciShow73/1008:39There Are Two Kinds of CuriousB2-C2 · ~10,000 words · fastSciShow73/1008:03AUTOThe House of Representatives is too small. Here is one way to fix it.B2-C2 · ~8,000 words · fastVox73/1008:47AUTOJeff Ross on Healing Through Roasting, Performing with His Dog & Schwarzenegger at the OscarsB1-B2 · ~3,000 words · fastJimmy Kimmel Live73/1008:20'Fuzzy teeth' feeling from spinach EXPLAINEDC1-C2 · ~12,000 words · fastAdam Ragusea73/1006:22Spaghetti pomodoro vs Italian FascistsB2-C2 · ~8,000 words · fastAdam Ragusea

Which English channel to start with

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.

6 of these 7 channels carry the same vocabulary band (B1-B2), and their scores still run from 0 to 88. That gap is pace: what separates the easiest of these channels from the hardest is how fast people talk, not which words they use. How that is measured →