Fact · Typing and writing speed
just under 200words per minute
In the same 2015 analysis, the fastest tracks of the Hamilton score run just under 200 words per minute, while the five slowest run from 64 to 80 words per minute.
Checked against its source on October 16, 2026
In the source's own words
“the fastest tracks are just shy of 200 words per minute, while the five slowest fall in the range of 64 to 80 words per minute”
'Hamilton' Is The Very Model Of A Modern Fast-Paced Musical, FiveThirtyEight, 2015, Paragraph on pace variation in the Hamilton score.
Open the original- What it measures
- The analysis counted words for each track of the cast album, and the article notes that Hamilton probably has the fastest pace of any Broadway show, though not necessarily the single fastest song.
- What it does not show
- Each figure is the average across a whole track, from one analysis of the cast recording. It is a comparison within one show, not a record.