話し方がちょっと速すぎて私には分かりません。

For some reason it feels strange to me to go right from すぎて to 私.
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What does には do in this sentence, and which part is responsible for the "for me" nuance?
Judging from your comment I think your main problem with understanding this
sentence is in identifying the hidden pronoun/name. It sounds like you want it
to say that the act of talking fast is difficult for you to understand, but
this is not the case.

In fact 話し方がちょっと速すぎて is an abbreviation for something like 彼の話し方がちょっと速すぎて
(insert name/pronoun of your choice in place of 彼). As usual Japanese omits
reference to the subject when it is obvious from context. So the whole
sentence is

> 話し方がちょっと速すぎて私には分かりません。  
>  His/her/Tanaka's way of talking is too fast, and it's incomprehensible
> to/for me.

So the て form just joins the two clauses with 'and' in the usual way.

I think the は acts as a contrast marker in this context. Most people can
understand him but **to me** he is incomprehensible.

**Edit:** Another thought on what may be confusing you is that に is often used
with すぎる. For example 私 **に** は高すぎる = It's too expensive **for** me. This に is
not the に used in your sentence. That に is associated with 分かる and not with
すぎる. If you wanted to use this construct you could say something like
話し方が私にはちょっと速すぎる, though I can't see a way to fit the verb 分かる into this
construction.
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