How long does it take to count to 1 million?

Answer 1

How rapidly do you plan to count? At one number per second, which would probably be an impossible rate to maintain, it would take about 11.57 days of nonstop counting. At 2 seconds per number on average, about 23.15 days of nonstop counting.

Just like any other job, task, project, or assignment, the time it takes to finish

depends on how fast or slow you do it.

-- The big numbers on the way to one million have rather long names ... like six hundred

seventy nine thousand seven hundred ninety six. That particular one has 16 syllables,

and if you look at all of them, from ' one ' to ' one million ', they can have anywhere from

one to 20 syllables. So it's hard to count the big numbers very fast.

-- If you averaged one count every 5 seconds from beginning to end, AND you never took

any breaks for anything, then it would take you 57days 20hours 53minutes 20seconds to finish

the whole job.

-- If you were an expert fast talker and you could average one count every second all the way,

then you could wrap it up in only 11days 13hours 46minutes 40seconds, again without any

breaks

for food, water, sleep, pits etc.