NaNoWriMo Winners: We are the 14%!

NaNoWriMo 2011: 256,618 participants, 36,774 winners.

If you won, you’re the 14%, baby!

And if you didn’t win the 86% is still nifty too…

lettersandlight:

The end-of-event stats blog post has become one of my favorite NaNoWriMo traditions (and I derive great pleasure from looking at these stats posts from years past, too…). I hope you enjoy devouring this year’s numbers as much as I enjoyed compiling them!

General Stats Round Up!

For NaNoWriMo main:

  • 256,618 participants, up roughly 28% from 2010’s total of 200,530 writers.
  • We wrote a total of   3,074,068,446 words, up 7% from 2010’s collective word count of 2,872,682,109.
  • This averaged out to 11,979 words per person!
  • We had 36,774 winners, giving us a 14% win rate!

For NaNoWriMo’s Young Writers Program:

  • 81,040 participants, up 19% from 2010’s total of 68,710.
  • We wrote a total of 368,143,078 words up 40% from 2010’s collective word count of  262,303,074 .
  • This averaged out to 7,199 words per person.
  • We had 16,334 winners, giving us a never-before-precedented 32% win rate!

 

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