How long does it take to read The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes?
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle is about 104,000 words long, so it takes about 6 hours 41 minutes to read at the average adult reading speed for fiction (260 words a minute). On Scrolls it is 3,320 short chunks across 12 stories; at 10 minutes a day you would finish it in 41 days.
How many days will it take to read The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes?
It depends on how many minutes a day you read. At 260 words a minute:
| Reading a day | Days to finish |
|---|---|
| 5 minutes | 81 days |
| 10 minutes | 41 days |
| 15 minutes | 27 days |
| 20 minutes | 21 days |
| 30 minutes | 14 days |
About The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Arthur Conan Doyle’s 1892 collection of twelve Sherlock Holmes stories, narrated by Dr Watson, including A Scandal in Bohemia, The Red-Headed League and The Speckled Band.
It opens:
To Sherlock Holmes she is always the woman.
Stories and reading times
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes has 12 stories. The longest takes about 38 minutes; the shortest about 27 minutes.
| # | Story | Words | Time | Chunks |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A Scandal in Bohemia | 8,518 | 33 min | 281 |
| 2 | The Red-Headed League | 9,106 | 35 min | 280 |
| 3 | A Case of Identity | 6,975 | 27 min | 220 |
| 4 | The Boscombe Valley Mystery | 9,616 | 37 min | 310 |
| 5 | The Five Orange Pips | 7,314 | 28 min | 228 |
| 6 | The Man with the Twisted Lip | 9,200 | 35 min | 280 |
| 7 | The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle | 7,809 | 30 min | 244 |
| 8 | The Adventure of the Speckled Band | 9,805 | 38 min | 315 |
| 9 | The Adventure of the Engineer’s Thumb | 8,283 | 32 min | 268 |
| 10 | The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor | 8,102 | 31 min | 240 |
| 11 | The Adventure of the Beryl Coronet | 9,679 | 37 min | 326 |
| 12 | The Adventure of the Copper Beeches | 9,944 | 38 min | 328 |
How to read The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes on Scrolls
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is free to read on Scrolls, the whole book. Scrolls shows it one short chunk per screen: swipe up for the next, the way you move through a feed, and your place syncs across devices.
How we worked this out
We counted the words in the edition you read on Scrolls, then divided by 260 words a minute, the average adult silent reading rate for English fiction in a review of 190 studies: Brysbaert (2019), “How many words do we read per minute? A review and meta-analysis of reading rate”, Journal of Memory and Language 109. Fast readers will take less time and careful readers more; a Scrolls chunk averages about 7 seconds at that speed.
Other books on Scrolls
- How long does it take to read Alice's Adventures in Wonderland? About 1 hour 41 minutes.
- How long does it take to read A Study in Scarlet? About 2 hours 46 minutes.
- How long does it take to read The Innocence of Father Brown? About 5 hours 3 minutes.
- How long does it take to read The Extraordinary Adventures of Arsène Lupin? About 3 hours 27 minutes.
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