How long does it take to read The Pyramid Principle?
logic in writing and thinking
The Pyramid Principle by Barbara Minto takes about 3 hours 15 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 3 hours 15 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1978. 177 pages, about 48,675 words.
7 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 5 hours 25 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 3 hours 15 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 2 minutes |
The page count is the median across 13 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
The Minto Pyramid Principle: Logic in Writing, Thinking and Problem Solving explains a technique for working out your thinking on any subject, so that you can present it clearly to someone else. It explains: Why organizing your ideas into a pyramid structure will make them easy for someone else to grasp How to use the pyramid rules to help you discover and develop your thinking How to focus the thinking to be compelling to your audience.
Subjects: Business English, Business writing, Rhetoric, Thought and thinking, Writing, Problem solving
