How long does it take to read The Complete Sherlock Holmes?
The Complete Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle takes about 20 hours 34 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 20 hours 34 minutes
A long haul
First published 1900. 1,122 pages, about 308,550 words.
42 days (about 6 weeks) at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 34 hours 17 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 20 hours 34 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 12 hours 51 minutes |
The page count is the median across 118 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
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