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Slide presentations tend to be closer to 100â125 wpm for a comfortable pace, auctioneers can speak at about 250 wpm, and the fastest speaking policy debaters speak from 350 to over 500 words per minute. Internet speech calculators show that various things influence words per minute including nervousness.
My rule of thumb is either 100 words per minute, or 1.5 minutes for every bullet point [in a longer talk]. So a talk would be a few pages long and in that time period -- with opening and conclusion -- cover only a few points with embellishment of each point. posted by jessamyn at 6:52 PM on July 31, 2005.