# Text Statistics Guide

Count characters, words, sentences, lines and reading time.

- Tool: https://ilham.dev/tools/text-statistics/
- Guide URL: https://ilham.dev/guides/text-statistics/
- Tool guides index: https://ilham.dev/guides/tools/
- Broader guide: Text Formatting and Cleanup (https://ilham.dev/guides/text-formatting-and-cleanup/)

## What it does

Count characters, words, sentences, paragraphs and lines, with and without spaces, plus an estimated reading time. Useful for checking a draft against a length limit.

## Use the tool

Open https://ilham.dev/tools/text-statistics/, add the input the tool asks for, run it, and check the output before using it elsewhere.

## Input and output

- Input: text.
- Output: text.
- Category: Text.

## Privacy and processing
Processing happens locally in your browser. This tool does not upload the input to ilham.dev.

## Questions

### How is the reading time worked out?

Words divided by a fixed reading speed. It is a rough figure — technical material with code reads considerably slower than prose.