60-second speaking drill

Can you score above 70?

Record for 60 seconds. Get a score, a filler word count, and one thing to fix.

Interactive Demo

Pick an answer. See the feedback. Then try your own.

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Prompt

Describe a time you showed leadership.

Sample
66/ 100Developing
48s duration124 WPM
Coach verdict

Your core initiative was sound (clarified ownership, built a shared list, shipped on time), but filler clusters ('basically', 'um', 'kind of', 'like') diluted your executive presence.

Action Plan

One thing to remember

Replace casual qualifiers ('kind of doing their own parts') with decisive, active leadership language.

Next attempt drill

Practice delivering your opening sentence with zero filler buffers before the first verb.

Keep doing this

Direct cross-functional coordination: taking personal responsibility to sync with design and engineering leads daily.

Opening Hook

What was spoken

So basically, um, there was this time at my old company when we were working on a product launch.

Punchier rewrite

During a critical product launch at my previous company, unclear review ownership threatened our release timeline.

Top Observations (2)
Polish itemfiller cluster

So basically, um, there was this time at my old company

Triple filler buffer at the cold start burns 4 seconds without conveying information.

Fix: Open directly with context: 'During a high-priority product launch at my previous company...'
He noticedweak phrasing

people were kind of doing their own parts... nobody was really sure who owned the final review

'Kind of' and 'pretty busy' minimize the real stakes of the coordination breakdown.

Fix: Upgrade to: 'The team suffered from fragmented ownership and lacked a single point of accountability.'
Live 30s Demo

Try with your own voice: no account needed

Record 30 seconds on the prompt below. You'll get a score, pacing data, and a rewritten version of your opening hook. No sign-up required.

30-second drill prompt

Describe a time you solved a difficult problem under pressure.

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Talk for up to 30 seconds: no sign-up or credit card required

60 seconds, no restarts
Every filler word counted
Your words, timestamped
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Why not just ChatGPT

ChatGPT will tell you that was great. This won't.

Voice assistants auto-clean your transcript and let you re-record until it sounds good. That's polite. It's also why nothing changes.

Voice assistants
  • You can pause, restart, and re-record. Nothing is at stake, so nothing sticks.
  • Your transcript gets cleaned up. The filler words vanish, and so does your awareness of them.
  • The feedback is always encouraging, regardless of what you actually said.
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  • 60 seconds. No restarts. The timer pressure is the point.
  • Your exact words, every hesitation, and the timestamps to find them.
  • A score, a quote from your own answer, and one specific thing to fix.
How it works

One prompt. One minute. Then feedback.

1

You get a prompt

From a curated track or your own custom deck. No prep time. That's deliberate.

SYSTEM DESIGN · EXPERT

“Design a distributed rate-limiting architecture spanning 5 global cloud regions.”

2

You talk for 60 seconds

The timer runs. Your pauses, fillers, and pacing are all tracked. No restarts.

60s hard stop 120-160 WPM target
3

You get a score and one thing to fix

A breakdown across seven axes, your own words quoted with timestamps, and one micro-drill to practice before your next attempt.

Score: 783 ums counted1 thing to fix
Tracks

Two tracks. Pick the one that matches the pressure you're preparing for.

Technical Track

System Design & Architecture

For system design interviews, architecture reviews, and explaining technical decisions under a timer.

Sample prompts
BEGINNER

Explain what a Load Balancer is and why it's critical for scale.

EXPERT

Design a distributed rate-limiting architecture spanning 5 global cloud regions.

General Track

Impromptu & Executive Speech

Behavioral interview prep, pitch practice, impromptu speaking, or just getting comfortable thinking out loud.

Sample prompts
BEGINNER

Describe a project trade-off where you had to compromise on scope.

EXPERT

Convince an audience that privacy is more valuable than user convenience.

Available in 8 languages
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Sample feedback

Here's what a full evaluation looks like.

Your words, scored and timestamped. The evaluation quotes you directly so you can hear what worked and where you lost the thread.

Evaluation · Technical Track
78 / 100
Prompt

“Design a distributed rate-limiting architecture spanning 5 global cloud regions.”

58sDuration
3Ums counted
149WPM
Score breakdown
Content
74
Structure
80
Delivery
82
Hook
76
Observations
Needs work0:23

“...I'd probably use Redis for that...”

You named a tool without explaining why. State the failure mode before reaching for the solution.

Strength0:08

“The first question I'd ask is what's our SLO...”

Good instinct. Leading with the SLO question shows you're thinking about constraints before implementation.

Next drill

Lead with the constraint before the solution. Practice a 15-second cold open naming the multi-region sync issue, then specify Redis or Memcached.

Pricing

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