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One flew over the cuckoo's nest
by Ken Kesey
Page count, estimated reading time and reading quiz: everything to know before you start One flew over the cuckoo's nest, and the Vread challenge to get to the end.
- Pages
- 325
- Reading time
- ≈ 5 h 50 min
- Checkpoints
- 11
- Genre
- Classic
Free on iPhone and Android.
How long does it take to read One flew over the cuckoo's nest?
At 325 pages, One flew over the cuckoo's nest is a fairly long book. Expect about 5 hours 50 minutes of reading to finish it, based on 250 words per page and an average reading speed of 230 words per minute. A fast reader will go quicker; a careful read (or reading in a second language) will take longer.
At 30 minutes a day, that is about 12 days of reading. At the median pace of Vread readers, 72 pages per reading day, it takes 5 reading days. For a book of this length (250 to 399 pages), Vread readers who finish it take a median of 4.7 days between the first and the last checkpoint (Vread Reading Barometer 2026).
- 30 minutes a day12 days
- Vread median pace (72 pp./day)5 days
Estimates; see the method at the bottom of the page.
Prove you read it
The Vread challenge: 11 checkpoints
- Checkpoint 1, page 30
- Checkpoint 2, page 59
- Checkpoint 3, page 89
- Checkpoint 4, page 118
- Checkpoint 5, page 148
- Checkpoint 6, page 177
- Checkpoint 7, page 207
- Checkpoint 8, page 236
- Checkpoint 9, page 266
- Checkpoint 10, page 295
- Checkpoint 11, page 325
In Vread, One flew over the cuckoo's nest is split into 11 checkpoints, one every 30 pages or so. At each checkpoint, a question covers the passage you have just read: a correct answer validates the step, and your progress moves forward like a training plan.
The challenge: validate all 11 checkpoints through to the last page. No giant quiz at the end, no summary to copy out: short questions along the way that prove the book was actually read. It also works as a reading quiz to check your understanding before a test.
Also available in French on Vread.
Illustrative example
What a checkpoint looks like
A short, precise question about the pages you have just read: a character, a place, a choice.
The answer is in the text: reply in the app.

This is not a question from One flew over the cuckoo's nest: to avoid spoilers, the real questions stay in the app.
Answer in the app, one checkpoint at a time.
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