# Is there any way to show approximate reading time in the topics list?

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**Created:** [2015 年2 月 26 日 01:12 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-there-any-way-to-show-approximate-reading-time-in-the-topics-list/25710 "2015-02-26T01:12:48Z")\
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作者： ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)\
发布日期： [2015 年2 月 26 日 07:17 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-there-any-way-to-show-approximate-reading-time-in-the-topics-list/25710/7 "2015-02-26T07:17:47Z")

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Yes, there is a minor disconnect between:

- 60 posts that are 2 lines each
- 10 posts that are 3,000 lines each

But it’s negligible in practice; most posts are small to extra small, and those that aren’t are extreme outliers.

We do estimate read time in the topic summary, of course, as previously noted – but that read time estimate doesn’t show up in the topic list.

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