Cover of Project Hail Mary
Reading time

How long does it take to read Project Hail Mary?

by Andy Weir

At an average pace

8h 44m

130,900 words at 250 a minute

At 30 minutes a day, you would finish in about 3 weeks.

That is 17 sessions with Project Hail Mary.

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45 minutes a day would finish it in about 12 days.

This estimate uses a representative 476-page edition. Page counts can differ between editions, formats, and printings.

How many words is Project Hail Mary?

Project Hail Mary is about 130,900 words, estimated from its 476 pages at about 275 words a page. At 250 words a minute, that comes to 8 hours 44 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.

How many pages is Project Hail Mary?

Catalog page count
476
Edition ISBN
9780593135204
Author
Andy Weir
Genre
science fiction

These details come from the ReadersGuild catalog. Look up this edition on Google Books. The word count is estimated from pages, not counted from the text. Introductions, notes, and layout can affect the estimate.

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