NaNoWriMo 2013: By the Numbers
Check out our statistics for NaNoWriMo 2013! Our writers rocked this year as hard as usual—beating 2012’s winner number and words per person. And the Young Writers Program program continues its hot streak of 20%-and-up win rates. See below for even more facts and stats, including our website visitors (nearing a milli) and top NaNoWriMo cities.
And thanks for contributing to these awesome, humbling numbers!
NaNoWriMo by the Numbers
- 310,095 participants
- 3,520,123,164 total words
- 11,352 words per person (on average)
- 42,221 winners (14%)
The Young Writers Program by the Numbers (Note: This includes only our online participants; classroom students are not included.)
- 89,500 participants
- 444,585,841 total words
- 4,967 words per person (on average)
- 18,670 winners (21%)
Website Activity (during November)
Between us and the kids, that’s nearly four billion words.
Congratulations to everyone who took place and had more words at the end of November than they did at the start! \o/
