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5,229 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.

5,229
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45
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3,271 h
of material
988
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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 →

77/1001:13:10AUTODebt Spiral or NEW Golden Age? Super Bowl Insider Trading, Booming Token Budgets, Ferrari's New EVB2-C2 · ~6,000 words · fastAll-In Podcast77/10014:08Why Humanity Will Never Leave The Solar SystemB2-C1 · ~7,000 words · fastKurzgesagt – In a Nutshell77/1007:33AUTOA missing link between 🇬🇧 biscuits and 🇺🇸 biscuitsC1-C2 · ~11,000 words · fastAdam Ragusea77/10050:29AUTOWhat it feels like to die | The Gray AreaB2-C1 · ~5,000 words · fastVox77/1001:10:55AUTOArena Show Part II: Brooks Running (with CEO Jim Weber)B2-C1 · ~6,000 words · fastAcquired77/1002:27:38AUTOHow to Better Regulate Your Emotions | Dr. Marc BrackettB1-C1 · ~5,000 words · fastAndrew Huberman77/10017:46AUTOSpaceX Went Public - A Disaster Waiting to HappenB2-C2 · ~8,000 words · fastColdFusion77/10020:53AUTOHow Smartphones Shrink Our BrainsC1-C2 · ~11,000 words · fastColdFusion77/1002:59:53Jeremi Suri: Civil War, Slavery, Freedom, and Democracy | Lex Fridman Podcast #354B1-B2 · ~5,000 words · fastLex Fridman77/10014:45$20K vs $2,000,000 Hybrid Car!B2-C2 · ~8,000 words · fastMarques Brownlee77/10011:57AUTOWhat Makes Crap Lumber (It's not Always Obvious)B2-C1 · ~5,000 words · fastEssential Craftsman77/1002:58:49AUTOAnti-Aging Expert: Missing This Vitamin Is Like Smoking! The Truth About Creatine! - Rhonda PatrickB2-C2 · ~10,000 words · fastThe Diary Of A CEO77/10024:34Hawaii's Logistics ProblemC1-C2 · ~11,000 words · fastWendover Productions77/10024:04AUTOThe Mercedes-AMG E53 Wagon Is a Perfect CompromiseB2-C1 · ~6,000 words · fastDoug DeMuro77/10020:12How The Channel Tunnel WorksB2-C2 · ~8,000 words · fastPractical Engineering77/10010:22Why it's called gluten, glutamate, gelatin, gelato, etcC1-C2 · ~11,000 words · fastAdam Ragusea77/1001:11:18AUTOCapital-Efficient Growth (with Zoom CEO Eric Yuan & Veeva CEO Peter Gassner)B2-C1 · ~5,000 words · fastAcquired77/10020:48The Hidden Engineering Behind Texas's Top Tourist AttractionB2-C2 · ~7,000 words · fastPractical Engineering77/1003:40:53Michael Malice: Christmas Special | Lex Fridman Podcast #347B1-C1 · ~5,000 words · fastLex Fridman77/10016:03Nintendo Switch 2 Unboxing & First Gameplay!B2-C2 · ~7,000 words · fastMarques Brownlee77/1001:05:19I Was SCARED To Say This To NASA... (But I said it anyway) - Smarter Every Day 293B1-B2 · ~4,000 words · fastSmarterEveryDay77/1007:48The World's Deadliest Mushroom is Getting DeadlierC1-C2 · ~10,000 words · fastSciShow77/10043:08In Defense of AlchemyC1-C2 · ~12,000 words · fastSciShow77/10015:14We Forgot How to Cure Scurvy 7ish TimesC1-C2 · ~13,000 words · fastSciShow

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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
5BBC Learning English07554B1-C2medium19130 h
6Speak English With Vanessa288556B1-B2fast17585 h
7Learn English with Bob the Canadian438666B1-B2fast8834 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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