Per metric · 2026-04-27

What's a typical daily reading in the US?

Median is 15 min. Most people fall between 5 min and 40 min. Above 75 min is top-10%.

What's a typical daily reading?

The median US adult lands at 15 min for daily reading. The 25th-to-75th percentile range — what most people would call 'normal' — runs from 5 min to 40 min. Below 0 min you're in the bottom 10%; above 75 min you're in the top 10%.

How we computed this

We anchor at p1, p5, p10, p25, p50, p75, p90, p95, and p99 from public-data sources and linearly interpolate between them. See methodology for the full chain.

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