How long does it take to read The Scorch Trials?
by James Dashner
6h 38m
99,550 words at 250 a minute
At 30 minutes a day, you would finish in about 2 weeks.
That is 13 sessions with The Scorch Trials.
45 minutes a day would finish it in about 9 days.
How we worked this out
The Scorch Trials is about 99,550 words, estimated from its 362 pages at about 275 words a page. At 250 words a minute, that comes to 6 hours 38 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 Scorch Trials, we will replace this estimate with the time they actually took.
The Scorch Trials at a glance
- Pages
- 362
- Author
- James Dashner
- Series
- The Maze Runner, book 2
- Genre
- young-adult
Knowing the number is the easy part.
The hours are the hard part, and they are easier with company. ReadersGuild is where people read The Scorch Trials alongside each other, one session at a time.
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