How long does it take to read When the Game Was Ours?
Larry Bird
When the Game Was Ours by Larry Bird takes about 6 hours 14 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 6 hours 14 minutes
A weekend read
First published 2009. 340 pages, about 93,500 words.
13 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 10 hours 23 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 6 hours 14 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 3 hours 54 minutes |
The page count is the median across 5 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
With intimate, fly-on-the-wall detail, "When the Game Was Ours" transports readers to an electric era of basketball and reveals for the first time the inner workings of two players--Larry Bird and Earvin "Magic" Johnson--dead set on besting one another.
Subjects: Basketball, Basketball players, Biography, History, Basketball, history, Basketball, biography
