Book · Fantasy and science fiction
The Wise Man's Fear
by Patrick Rothfuss
Page count, estimated reading time and reading quiz: everything to know before you start The Wise Man's Fear, and the Vread challenge to get to the end.
- Pages
- 1,000
- Reading time
- ≈ 18 h 10 min
- Checkpoints
- 40
- Genre
- Fantasy, SF
Free on iPhone and Android.
How long does it take to read The Wise Man's Fear?
At 1,000 pages, The Wise Man's Fear is a doorstopper. Expect about 18 hours 10 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 37 days of reading. At the median pace of Vread readers, 72 pages per reading day, it takes 14 reading days. For a book of this length (600 pages or more), Vread readers who finish it take a median of 6.4 days between the first and the last checkpoint (Vread Reading Barometer 2026).
- 30 minutes a day37 days
- Vread median pace (72 pp./day)14 days
Estimates; see the method at the bottom of the page.
Prove you read it
The Vread challenge: 40 checkpoints
- Checkpoint 1, page 25
- Checkpoint 2, page 50
- Checkpoint 3, page 75
- Checkpoint 4, page 100
- Checkpoint 5, page 125
- Checkpoint 6, page 150
- Checkpoint 7, page 175
- Checkpoint 8, page 200
- Checkpoint 9, page 225
- Checkpoint 10, page 250
- Checkpoint 11, page 275
- Checkpoint 12, page 300
- Checkpoint 13, page 325
- Checkpoint 14, page 350
- Checkpoint 15, page 375
- Checkpoint 16, page 400
- Checkpoint 17, page 425
- Checkpoint 18, page 450
- Checkpoint 19, page 475
- Checkpoint 20, page 500
- Checkpoint 21, page 525
- Checkpoint 22, page 550
- Checkpoint 23, page 575
- Checkpoint 24, page 600
- Checkpoint 25, page 625
- Checkpoint 26, page 650
- Checkpoint 27, page 675
- Checkpoint 28, page 700
- Checkpoint 29, page 725
- Checkpoint 30, page 750
- Checkpoint 31, page 775
- Checkpoint 32, page 800
- Checkpoint 33, page 825
- Checkpoint 34, page 850
- Checkpoint 35, page 875
- Checkpoint 36, page 900
- Checkpoint 37, page 925
- Checkpoint 38, page 950
- Checkpoint 39, page 975
- Checkpoint 40, page 1000
In Vread, The Wise Man's Fear is split into 40 checkpoints, one every 25 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 40 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 The Wise Man's Fear: to avoid spoilers, the real questions stay in the app.
Answer in the app, one checkpoint at a time.
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