How long does it take to read 20 pages?
A short story, or a single chapter of a long novel.
22m
5,500 words at 250 a minute
At 30 minutes a day, you would finish in about a day.
That is 1 session with 20 pages.
Read it with the GuildHow many words is 20 pages?
20 pages is about 5,500 words, at the trade-paperback average of 275 words a page. At 250 words a minute, that comes to 22 minutes.
We use 250 words a minute, not the 300 most calculators assume. A 2019 meta-analysis of 190 studies puts silent adult reading nearer 238 for non-fiction and 260 for fiction.
Words per page move with font and trim size, so treat this as a good estimate rather than an exact figure.
- Slower (150 wpm)
- 37 minutes
- Average (250 wpm)
- 22 minutes
- Faster (400 wpm)
- 14 minutes
What 20 pages a day gets you
20 pages a day is about 22 minutes of reading. Keep it up and an average 300-page novel takes 15 days. Here is what that looks like against books people are actually timing.
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