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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.

5,230
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45
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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 →

92/10032:01AUTOEssentials: The Science of Eating for Health, Fat Loss & Lean Muscle | Dr. Layne NortonC1-C2 · ~11,000 words · very fastAndrew Huberman92/10010:04How To Get The Worst Sunburn Of Your LifeC1-C2 · ~13,000 words · very fastSciShow92/10010:32How the Fall of the Roman Empire Made Animals SmallerB2-C2 · ~10,000 words · very fastSciShow92/10023:02AUTO47 Food Hacks To Make Your Food HealthierC1-C2 · ~10,000 words · very fastJoshua Weissman92/10021:33How wiggling charges give rise to lightB2-C2 · ~9,000 words · very fast3Blue1Brown92/10011:48I Tried Samsung's Secret Android XR Headset!B2-C2 · ~9,000 words · very fastMarques Brownlee92/10013:37AUTOThe 300 Hour Beef WellingtonB2-C2 · ~10,000 words · very fastJoshua Weissman92/10014:02AUTOThe 5 Meals Anyone Can MakeB2-C2 · ~10,000 words · very fastJoshua Weissman92/10013:12A quick trick for computing eigenvalues | Chapter 15, Essence of linear algebraB2-C2 · ~10,000 words · very fast3Blue1Brown92/10026:09Attention in transformers, step-by-step | Deep Learning Chapter 6B2-C2 · ~10,000 words · very fast3Blue1Brown92/10012:33AUTOThe 100 Layer LasagnaB2-C2 · ~10,000 words · very fastJoshua Weissman92/10037:20But how do AI images and videos actually work? | Guest video by Welch LabsC1-C2 · ~10,000 words · very fast3Blue1Brown92/10021:57Group theory, abstraction, and the 196,883-dimensional monsterB2-C2 · ~11,000 words · very fast3Blue1Brown92/1006:21Could We Hibernate All the Way to Mars?B2-C2 · ~10,000 words · very fastSciShow92/10014:18AUTOCan Mythical Chef Josh Create the ULTIMATE Spicy Burrito? | Heat EatersB2-C2 · ~8,000 words · very fastFirst We Feast92/10017:24AUTOZIP System R-Sheathing ON THE ROOF!? Exterior roof insulation demystifiedC1-C2 · ~10,000 words · very fastMatt Risinger93/10027:49The Physics of Euler's Formula | Laplace Transform PreludeC1-C2 · ~10,000 words · very fast3Blue1Brown93/10018:28AUTOI Made The Best Chinese Takeout Meal EverC1-C2 · ~9,000 words · very fastJoshua Weissman93/10011:05AUTORadioactive glassware of the early 20th centuryC1-C2 · ~9,000 words · very fastAdam Ragusea93/10041:37Every Way To Cook An Egg (100 Methods)C1-C2 · ~9,000 words · very fastJoshua Weissman93/10022:42How might LLMs store facts | Deep Learning Chapter 7C1-C2 · ~9,000 words · very fast3Blue1Brown93/10013:24Answering viewer questions about refractionC1-C2 · ~9,000 words · very fast3Blue1Brown93/10011:20AUTOI Made The Spiciest Foods In The WorldC1-C2 · ~10,000 words · very fastJoshua Weissman93/10033:13AUTOI Tried The Best Croissant in The WorldC1-C2 · ~11,000 words · very fastJoshua Weissman

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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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