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> I usually listen at 1.5x passively.

Eminem's song "Rap God" has a segment where he goes at about 6 words per second (@4m23s):

Racine sings the english translation of the Disappearance of Hatsune Miku much faster:

However, there is a difference between a rehearsed and practiced performance and communication that makes these things more a feat of acrobatics.

For a time in the 1980s John Moschitta was well-known for making fast-talking commercials:

i can catch a single fastball. sometimes. i cant catch 1 per second