READING TIME · MARK TWAIN · 1889

How long does it take to read A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court?

At an average reading speed, about 7 hours 20 minutes. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court is 114,928 words long, in 44 chapters.

WORDS: 114,928
CHAPTERS: 44
READING LEVEL: About grade 8 (Flesch–Kincaid)

Reading time at different speeds

Total reading time for A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court at three reading speeds
Reader	Speed	Whole book
Unhurried	200 words a minute	9 h 35 min
Average adult reader	260 words a minute	7 h 20 min
Quick reader	320 words a minute	6 h

To finish it at a steady pace:

20 minutes a day: about 23 days
30 minutes a day: about 15 days
60 minutes a day: about 8 days

How many chapters are in A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court?

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court has 44 chapters. The longest is Chapter 43 (4,661 words, 18 min); the shortest is Chapter 1 (798 words, 3 min). The average chapter takes 10 min.

Reading times below are at 260 words a minute.

Words and reading time for each chapter of A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
Chapter	Words	Reading time	Practice in Parlor
Chapter 1	798	3 min	Check it →
Chapter 2	2,029	8 min	Check it →
Chapter 3	2,121	8 min	Check it →
Chapter 4	1,153	4 min	Check it →
Chapter 5	1,936	7 min	Check it →
Chapter 6	2,351	9 min	Check it →
Chapter 7	2,396	9 min	Check it →
Chapter 8	2,220	9 min	Check it →
Chapter 9	2,271	9 min	Check it →
Chapter 10	1,615	6 min	Check it →
Chapter 11	2,920	11 min	Check it →
Chapter 12	1,729	7 min	Check it →
Chapter 13	3,080	12 min	Check it →
Chapter 14	1,430	6 min	Check it →
Chapter 15	2,918	11 min	Check it →
Chapter 16	2,336	9 min	Check it →
Chapter 17	3,124	12 min	Check it →
Chapter 18	3,975	15 min	Check it →
Chapter 19	1,183	5 min	Check it →
Chapter 20	2,600	10 min	Check it →
Chapter 21	4,435	17 min	Check it →
Chapter 22	3,859	15 min	Check it →
Chapter 23	2,765	11 min	Check it →
Chapter 24	3,743	14 min	Check it →
Chapter 25	4,250	16 min	Check it →
Chapter 26	3,287	13 min	Check it →
Chapter 27	2,939	11 min	Check it →
Chapter 28	1,469	6 min	Check it →
Chapter 29	2,325	9 min	Check it →
Chapter 30	3,558	14 min	Check it →
Chapter 31	2,621	10 min	Check it →
Chapter 32	2,288	9 min	Check it →
Chapter 33	4,025	15 min	Check it →
Chapter 34	4,014	15 min	Check it →
Chapter 35	2,772	11 min	Check it →
Chapter 36	1,430	6 min	Check it →
Chapter 37	2,560	10 min	Check it →
Chapter 38	864	3 min	Check it →
Chapter 39	3,568	14 min	Check it →
Chapter 40	2,736	11 min	Check it →
Chapter 41	1,460	6 min	Check it →
Chapter 42	3,842	15 min	Check it →
Chapter 43	4,661	18 min	Check it →
Chapter 44	1,272	5 min	Check it →

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How these numbers were worked out

Words are counted in A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Project Gutenberg eBook #86, the edition Parlor opens, divided into chapters exactly as Parlor shows them. Project Gutenberg’s licence and notes are left out. Other editions may differ slightly.

Reading speeds follow Marc Brysbaert’s review of 190 studies, which found that adults read English silently at about 260 words a minute for fiction and 238 for non-fiction (Journal of Memory and Language, 2019). Older and more difficult books often take longer than their word count suggests.

The reading level is the Flesch–Kincaid grade, worked out from average sentence length (19.1 words) and word length. It measures how long the sentences and words are, not how hard the ideas are.

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