Matteo

One word in twenty unknown is roughly one per two lines of a paperback. Much harder than it sounds when you check.

I counted mine and it was the most useful thing I did in four years. Rough total across three years of "studying": about 340 hours. I had been telling people I had studied for three years, which is true and completely uninformative.

The people I know who got past the plateau were all at four figures. Not because they are different, because they did more hours. That is a much less interesting explanation than talent and it fits the evidence better.