Speaking Rate & Learner Engagement Test @ 165 wpm

An excerpt from Steve Job's 2005 Stanford commencement speech was slowed down to 165 words per minute from the original 203 words per minute.
According to the studies by Guo (2014), 185-254 wpm rate led to the highest learner engagement among five different wpm ranges (i.e., 48-130, 130-145, 145-165, 165-185 & 185-254 wpm).
Listen to the different speaking rates:
■ 145 wpm version: • Speaking Rate & Learne...
■ 185 wpm version: • Speaking Rate & Learne...
■ 254 wpm version: • Speaking Rate & Learne...
■ 203 wpm (original): • Speaking Rate & Learne...
Source:
■ Guo, P. J., Kim, J., & Rubin, R. (2014). How Video Production Affects Student Engagement: An Empirical Study of MOOC Videos. In Proceedings of the First ACM Conference on Learning @ Scale Conference (pp. 41-50). New York, NY, USA: ACM. doi.org/10.1145...

[@nate-endo]

using this to see how long my debate will take to say-needs to be