How much of your life have you spent scrolling?

How much time do people spend scrolling?

The average adult spends between two and a half and four hours per day on their phone outside of work. That translates to roughly 900 to 1,400 hours per year - the equivalent of 37 to 60 full days. Over a decade, the number approaches an entire year of waking life spent looking at a small glass rectangle.

What does scrolling actually cost?

The real cost is not the time itself but what that time could have been. An hour of scrolling is an hour not spent reading, exercising, learning, resting, creating, or connecting. This calculator converts your daily screen time into those more tangible units so you can see the trade-off clearly: books unread, workouts skipped, sleep lost, and creative projects never started.

How many books could you read instead of scrolling?

At an average reading speed of 238 words per minute and an average book length of 75,000 words, one hour of reading equals roughly one-fifth of a book. If you scroll for two hours a day and converted half of that to reading, you could finish roughly 36 books per year - more than most people read in five years.