Text Speed

Data Gathered by various runners

Will be updated with more cutscene data

Informations

Since most of ALBW's text is not autoscrolling and can be mashed through very fast, the only way to tell what language has the fastest text speed is by counting how many text boxes there are in a cutscene.

Below is a table showing how many text boxes were counted in a certain cutscene for multiple languages.

Totals

This data was gathered using the current Any% route. For the sake of this table, the lowest numbers are used for the cutscenes where you rent items.

Language	English	Italian	German	Spanish †	Japanese	Korean	French
Total Textboxes	545	569	595	619 (Plus 0-7)	631	More info needed	648

† Spanish has 1 more textbox per Heart Container than all the other languages. The 0-7 additional boxes depend on how many Heart Containers you grab excluding the one in House of Gales, because grabbing it makes the Pendant appear faster, so skipping it is not worth it.

Notes

• English is the fastest language overall. It has the lowest percent of text boxes covering all the cutscenes.
• Quite a few languages item descriptions have more than one text box unlike other languages which only use one per item.
• The text said by Ravio after you've rented an item (that you paid for, which excludes the Tornado Rod in current any%) can vary in length. Most of the time it will be a single textbox, but sometimes it can go all the way up to 3.
• Some numbers for Japanese and Korean might be a bit off, because those were counted using either a speedrun video with an old route (Japanese) or videos of a Let's Play (Korean).

Detailed breakdown of the number of textboxes

Cutscene	English	Italian	German	Spanish	Japanese	Korean	French
Gulley inside house	7	7	8	7	8	7	8
Gulley outside house	8	8	10	8	10	10	9
Gulley at blacksmith	1	1	1	1	1	1	1
Inside blacksmith house	21	21	23	24	25	25	25
Ravio after Death Mountain	28-30	29-31	31-33	32-34	31-33	No reliable source	35-37
Castle Guard	7	8	8	7	10	10	9
Seres and Dampe at Sanctuary	25	24	25	25	25	25	28
Lamp Chest	1	1	1	2	1	1	1
Ravio after Sanctuary	30-32	36-38	31-33	38-40	37-39	No reliable source	36-38
Yuga in Eastern Palace (Including Bracelet)	10	12	12	11	12	12	12
Sahasrahla after Eastern Palace	32	34	32	34	35	35	35
Irene	17	16	19	19	21	21	19
Shady Guy at Zora River	4	4	4	4	4	4	4
Kakariko Vendor	7	7	8	8	8	8	9
Shady Guy in Kakariko	12	14	13	15	15	15	16
Queen Oren (With Fish Skip)	16	17	16	19	18	18	20
Ravio to get Hammer	7-9	7-9	7-9	8-10	7-9	No reliable source	7-9
Pendant Of Wisdom	1	1	1	2	1	1	2
Pendant Of Power	1	1	1	2	1	1	2
Sahasrahla after Tower Of Hera	5	7	7	6	7	7	7
Lost Woods	11	9	10	9	9	9	9
Sahasrahla at Master Sword	5	5	6	6	5	6	7
Ravio before Hyrule Castle	33-39	41-48	35-41	40-46	35-41	No reliable source	45-51
Sahasrahla at Hyrule Castle	8	8	9	8	8	7	8
Guard and Impa at Hyrule Castle	14	17	16	20	20	19	18
Impa inside Hyrule Castle	2	3	3	3	3	3	2
Zelda	24	29	34	27	34	34	34
Zelda and Yuga	24	24	26	27	26	26	27
Yuga fight (Before and after)	9	9	9	9	9	9	8
Inside Lorule blacksmith house	5	4	5	5	5	4	5
Hilda near Blacksmith	13	8	10	13	13	13	11
Hilda near Turtle Rock	4	5	5	5	5	5	5
Turtle Rock Sage	7	6	7	7	7	7	7
Hilda near Ice Ruins	5	4	6	6	6	6	6
Ice Ruins Sage	5	3	5	4	6	8 (Might be off)	6
Hilda and Zelda 1	5	2	3	5	2	2	4
Hilda near Dark Palace (Rock field and Maze)	8	10	12	11	12	12	13
Dark Palace Sage	5	4	5	4	5	5	5
Big Bomb Vendor	15	17	20	19	20	21	22
Swamp Palace Sage	4	6	6	5	7	7	7
Hilda and Zelda 2	4	3	3	4	3	3	4
Hilda near Desert Palace	7	4	6	5	5	5	5
Desert Palace Sage	5	5	6	7	7	7	9
Irene after Desert Palace (First Warp)	5	7	8	7	9	9	7
Hilda near Skull Woods	5	5	6	6	6	6	6
Skull Woods Sage	4	4	4	4	4	4	5
Hilda and Zelda 3	2	4	4	2	4	4	4
Thieves' Hideout Door	6	7	7	7	9	9	9
Thieves' Hideout Guard	4	4	4	4	5	5	5
Meet Thief Girl	8	9	8	7	8	5	8
Thief Girl in Zazak Room	3	3	3	3	3	3	3
Thief Girl in main room	1	1	1	1	1	1	1
Thief Girl entering boss room	2	2	2	2	2	2	2
Thief Girl after boss	8	8	7	7	9	9	7
Thieves' Hideout Sage	14	13	14	13	14	14	14
Hilda at Lorule Castle	3	3	4	5	5	5	5
Zelda during Yuganon fight	7	8	7	10	10	10	10
Zelda in Sacred Realm	11	10	11	11	13	13	10

Items and misc.

Item	English	Italian	German	Spanish	Japanese	Korean	French
Small Key	1	1	1	1	1	1	1
Big Key	1	1	1	2	1	1	1
Heart Container	1	1	1	2	1	1	1
Rupee Chest	1	1	1	1	1	1	1
Energy Potion	1	1	1	2	1	1	1
Monster Part	1	1	1	1	1	1	1