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Carl’s Doomsday Scenario

Matt Dinniman

At your speed≈ 7½ hrs

Pages385

Audiobook≈ 13 hrs

Times shown for 250 words a minute (average)

385 pages works out to roughly 116,000 words. At an average 250 words a minute that is 7½ hrs — a weekend's reading.

Readers on Hardcover rate it 4.37 out of 5, from 3,097 ratings.

Worth-it score 8.4/10 — Well worth the time. Readers 8.5 (Hardcover's 4.37★ from 3,097 ratings) − length 0.1 = 8.4. How the score works →

Book 2 of 8 in Dungeon Crawler Carl — see the reading order

How long does it take to read Carl’s Doomsday Scenario?

Carl’s Doomsday Scenario is 385 pages, or roughly 116,000 words. How long that takes depends on how fast you read:

Estimated reading time for Carl’s Doomsday Scenario at three reading speeds.
Your paceWords per minuteTime to finish
Slow17511 hrs
Average2507½ hrs
Fast4005 hrs

Estimated at about 300 words per page. Most adults read between 200 and 300 words a minute — set your own pace and every time on the site adjusts. Prefer to listen? At a typical narration pace of 150 words a minute the audiobook runs about 13 hrs — an estimate from the word count, since narrators vary.

Common questions

How long does it take to read Carl’s Doomsday Scenario?
About 7½ hrs at an average reading speed of 250 words per minute. Carl’s Doomsday Scenario runs 385 pages, roughly 116,000 words — so at a slower 175 wpm it is nearer 11 hrs, and at 400 wpm closer to 5 hrs.
How many pages is Carl’s Doomsday Scenario?
385 pages, which is about 116,000 words and 7½ hrs of reading. Editions vary, so we use the figure two of our sources agree on.
Is Carl’s Doomsday Scenario worth reading?
We score it 8.4 out of 10 for the time it takes — well worth the time. Readers on Hardcover rate it 4.37 out of 5 from 3,097 ratings, which counts for 8.5; at about 7½ hrs at an average pace it gives back 0.1 for its length.
How long is the Carl’s Doomsday Scenario audiobook?
About 13 hrs, estimated from the 116,000 words at a typical narration pace of 150 words a minute. Real editions vary by narrator, usually by well under an hour.

From the publisher

The ratings and views are off the chart. The fans just can't get enough. The dungeon gets more dangerous each day. But in a grinder designed to chew up and spit out crawlers by the millions, Carl and Princess Donut need to work harder than ever just to survive. They call it the Over City.…

A sprawling, once-thriving metropolis devastated by a mysterious calamity. But these streets are far from abandoned. An undead circus trawls the ruins. Murdered prostitutes rain from the sky. An ancient spell is finally ready to reveal its dark purpose. Carl still has no pants. They call it Dungeon Crawler World. For Carl and Donut, it's anything but a game.

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