The yappers / One of five
The Fast Talker
Says everything. Twice as much as anyone else, in the same 45 seconds.
The tell: No gaps. None.
What it does well
- Covers enormous ground. You finish the thought before the timer does.
- The energy is contagious and nobody is ever bored.
- No gap to fill, so nothing gets filled with “um”.
What it costs
- The audience is one sentence behind for the whole 45 seconds.
- Consonants collapse. Miss one clause and you have missed the next three.
- Reads as panicked even when you are not. Pace is how people guess at nerves.
How the app spots it
A pace well past the top of the comfortable band, and almost no silence anywhere in the clip.
- Talking speed
- Dead air
A yapper is a label on a score, never part of it. The same round always names the same one, and a round that sits in the middle of every band names none.