NaNoWriMo 2018: By the Numbers

Check out our statistics for NaNoWriMo 2018! Our writers continue to write and achieve great things; in fact, more novelists reached 50,000 words than last year! Writers in our Young Writers Program also continued to crush it, with an overall win rate of over 40%. Read on for more information about this November’s numbers, leaders, and chart-toppers.

NaNoWriMo Breakdown:287,327 participants (that’s more than the population of Toledo, Ohio)35,387 winners (that’s nearly 29% of writers who started novels!) 2,791,454,312 words (that’s more than three times as many words as the average person supposedly speaks in their lifetime)
22,871 words written on average by those who started novels 
YWP Breakdown64,374 novels started
26,183 winners (that’s almost 41%!) 
11,820 classrooms participatedWebsite activity849,540 unique visitors (that many people would fill the University of Michigan Stadium—the largest in the U.S.—almost eight times) 
22,338,654 pageviews 
Top Ten Countries (by visits)Top Fifteen Regions (by word count)Genre Popularity by Novels Started