# SOLVED: Reading Time calculation is not reasonable when content is Chinese

**URL:** <https://forum.bricksbuilder.io/t/solved-reading-time-calculation-is-not-reasonable-when-content-is-chinese/18418>\
**Category:** Bugs\
**Tags:** v1-9-4\
**Created:** [January 5, 2024, 4:07am UTC](https://forum.bricksbuilder.io/t/solved-reading-time-calculation-is-not-reasonable-when-content-is-chinese/18418 "2024-01-05T04:07:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![juan.in.camino](https://forum.bricksbuilder.io/user_avatar/forum.bricksbuilder.io/juan.in.camino/32/15764_2.png) [@juan.in.camino](https://forum.bricksbuilder.io/u/juan.in.camino)\
**Post date:** [January 5, 2024, 4:07am UTC](https://forum.bricksbuilder.io/t/solved-reading-time-calculation-is-not-reasonable-when-content-is-chinese/18418/1 "2024-01-05T04:07:00Z")

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**URL** : [https://buencamino.site/travel-costs-articles-analysis/](https://buencamino.site/travel-costs-articles-analysis/)

Words per minutes default is 200, and I change to 50, 30, Reading Time of post is always 1 minute. 🫠  
It has to be so small **such as 10 or lower** and Reading Time might change a bit.  
I guess maybe the root cause might be **traditional Chinese** , because most of SEO plugin has the same problem, and their help desk says it can’t be fixed in a short time. 😅  
Anyway, I am not sure it is a bug or not, but I would like to report it, maybe some people might need it someday!

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**Author:** ![charaf](https://forum.bricksbuilder.io/user_avatar/forum.bricksbuilder.io/charaf/32/34412_2.png) [@charaf](https://forum.bricksbuilder.io/u/charaf)\
**Post date:** [January 7, 2024, 1:31pm UTC](https://forum.bricksbuilder.io/t/solved-reading-time-calculation-is-not-reasonable-when-content-is-chinese/18418/2 "2024-01-07T13:31:23Z")

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Hi @juan.in.camino,

Thank you for your report and sharing access 🙂 Yup I can confirm there’s some odd behaviour when there is traditional Chinese text so I have added this to our internal bug tracker ✅

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**Author:** ![Matej](https://forum.bricksbuilder.io/user_avatar/forum.bricksbuilder.io/matej/32/20184_2.png) [@Matej](https://forum.bricksbuilder.io/u/Matej)\
**Post date:** [July 16, 2024, 7:55pm UTC](https://forum.bricksbuilder.io/t/solved-reading-time-calculation-is-not-reasonable-when-content-is-chinese/18418/3 "2024-07-16T19:55:28Z")

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Hi guys,

We’ve added this improvement in Bricks 1.10 beta, now available as a manual [download](https://my.bricksbuilder.io/?beta=1.10) in your account (see [changelog](https://bricksbuilder.io/release/bricks-1-10/)).

Please let us know if you are still experiencing issues.

**As with any beta release, please do not use it on a production/live website. It is only meant for testing in a local or staging environment.**

Best regards,  
M