Reading Challenges

The Bible Reading Challenge

Challenge Rules

Read the entire Bible in under 24 hours.

You must read 1,189,000 words in 24 hours. That's approximately 50,000 words per hour.

You are only allowed to take a 10-minute break for each of the 66 books of the Bible.

Read more about the rules

Challenge History

The challenge was created by a group of sadistic librarians who wanted to see how much suffering we could endure.

The first person to complete the challenge was a man who was secretly a hermit living in a cave.

Read the legend of the first challenger