How long does it take to read The Name of the Wind?
by Patrick Rothfuss
12h 8m
182,050 words at 250 a minute
At 30 minutes a day, you would finish in about 4 weeks.
That is 24 sessions with The Name of the Wind.
45 minutes a day would finish it in about 2 weeks.
How we worked this out
The Name of the Wind is about 182,050 words, estimated from its 662 pages at about 275 words a page. At 250 words a minute, that comes to 12 hours 8 minutes.
Most reading-time sites default to 300 words a minute. The best evidence we could find, a 2019 meta-analysis of 190 studies by Marc Brysbaert, puts silent adult reading of English prose closer to 238 words a minute for non-fiction and 260 for fiction. We use 250. It is slower than the number you will see elsewhere, and it is closer to how people actually read.
This is still a model, not a measurement. When enough ReadersGuild readers have finished The Name of the Wind, we will replace this estimate with the time they actually took.
The Name of the Wind at a glance
- Pages
- 662
- Author
- Patrick Rothfuss
- Series
- The Kingkiller Chronicle, book 1
- Genre
- fantasy, paranormal
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The hours are the hard part, and they are easier with company. ReadersGuild is where people read The Name of the Wind alongside each other, one session at a time.
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