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A lifetime is a pile of ordinary days. These experiments turn sleep, work, commuting and screens into hours, days and years — using numbers you provide, not a national average pretending to be you. They are estimates, not judgements.
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- How Much of Your Life Have You Spent Sleeping? Short answer: about a third of your life. Pop in your age and your usual night to see your own years asleep.
- How Much of Your Life Have You Spent Working? Your working hours so far, turned into days and years of round-the-clock time.
- How Much Time Have You Spent Commuting? Your daily journey added up over a year and a decade.
- How Much of Your Life Is Weekends? A two-day weekend is 28.6% of your life, and bank holidays nudge it up.
- How Much Time Have You Spent on Your Phone? Your daily phone or TV minutes as hours, days and years since you started.
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How Much of Your Life Have You Spent Sleeping?
Turn a typical night into years, days and a share of the life you have already lived.
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7 interactive experiments.
How Much of Your Life Have You Spent Sleeping?
Turn a typical night into years, days and a share of the life you have already lived.
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How Much of Your Life Have You Spent Working?
Estimate hours, days and years in paid work from your age, start age, weekly hours and holidays.
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How Much Time Have You Spent Commuting?
Add up years of two-way journeys from minutes, days per week and holiday weeks.
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How Much Time Have You Spent on Your Phone?
Convert daily phone or TV minutes into hours, days and years from the age you started.
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What If You Gained One Extra Hour Every Day?
See how 30 minutes or an hour a day, gained or lost, becomes hours, days and years over a chosen horizon.
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What If You Lived to 100?
Count the years, weeks, weekends and birthdays between now and a hundred — as a remainder, not a warning.
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How Much of Your Life Is Weekends?
See the share of a lifetime that falls on rest days, with an optional UK bank-holiday boost.
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How the life calculators work
They all do the same simple thing: take a daily habit, multiply it by the days you've lived (or the days you're asking about), and show the total as hours, days and years. It's clock maths, nothing more. Your own numbers beat any average, so if you know you sleep seven hours, or your commute is 40 minutes, use that rather than the default.
Which one to try first
If you're after the big picture, start with sleep, as it's the largest slice of almost everyone's day. Then try work and commuting, because those are the hours you'd most like back. The weekends page is the cheerful one: it shows how much of your life is already yours. And if you've ever wondered about an extra hour a day or living to 100, those two turn the same maths into a what-if.
What the numbers can and can't tell you
Here's the catch: a fixed daily figure smooths out real life. Childhood, new babies, shift work and holidays all bend the pattern, so treat the results as a sense of scale rather than a precise tally. None of them is health advice or a judgement on how you spend your time. They just show you where the hours go, and you decide what that means for you.