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This snippet returns an integer, for the estimated reading time for a piece of text. Think of the avg time on most blog posts.
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Estimated Reading Time
Str::macro('readingTime', function (...$text) {
$totalWords = str_word_count(implode(" ", $text));
$minutesToRead = round($totalWords / 200); // Avg WPM of adult
return (int)max(1, $minutesToRead);
});
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tfevens commented May 5, 2021

Credit to @marcelpociot

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