Count characters
Characters, words, lines and reading time – with the limits that matter.
Room left before the limit
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How to do it
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Paste or type
The counts update while you write.
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Watch the limits
Each one shows how much room is left, or how far over you are.
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Check the limits
On the right you see how much room is left before the limits of the common fields.
What this is for
Most places you write into have a ceiling: a meta description, a post, a subject line. Counting is easy; remembering which limit applies where is not.
So alongside the plain counts you get the room left before the limits that come up most often – and once you are over, by how much.
Common questions
At roughly 200 words a minute, which is the usual figure for reading on screen.
Both figures are shown – with and without.
Here they do. Some systems count differently under the hood, because an emoji can consist of several units – but what you see is one character.
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