How long does it take to read Ready Player One?
by Ernest Cline
6h 51m
102,850 words at 250 a minute
At 30 minutes a day, you would finish in about 2 weeks.
That is 14 sessions with Ready Player One.
45 minutes a day would finish it in about 10 days.
How we worked this out
Ready Player One is about 102,850 words, estimated from its 374 pages at about 275 words a page. At 250 words a minute, that comes to 6 hours 51 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 Ready Player One, we will replace this estimate with the time they actually took.
Ready Player One at a glance
- Pages
- 374
- Author
- Ernest Cline
- Genre
- fiction
Knowing the number is the easy part.
The hours are the hard part, and they are easier with company. ReadersGuild is where people read Ready Player One alongside each other, one session at a time.
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