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Check out our statistics for NaNoWriMo 2013! Our writers rocked this year as hard as usual—beating 2012’s winner number and words per person. And the Young Writers Program program continues its hot streak of 20%-and-up win rates. See below for even more facts and stats, including our website visitors (nearing a milli) and top NaNoWriMo cities.

And thanks for contributing to these awesome, humbling numbers!

NaNoWriMo by the Numbers

• 310,095 participants
• 3,520,123,164 total words
• 11,352 words per person (on average)
• 42,221 winners (14%)

The Young Writers Program by the Numbers (Note: This includes only our online participants; classroom students are not included.)

• 89,500 participants
• 444,585,841 total words
• 4,967 words per person (on average)
• 18,670 winners (21%)

Website Activity (during November)

• 949,147 unique visitors
• 36,680,504 pageviews

Top 50 NaNoWriMo Cities (based on visits during November)

1. London
2. New York
3. Los Angeles
4. Seattle
5. Sydney
6. Toronto
7. Chicago
8. Melbourne
9. Denver
10. Brisbane
11. Portland
12. San Francisco
13. Houston
14. Austin
15. Calgary
16. Minneapolis
17. San Diego
18. Helsinki
19. Phoenix
20. Boston
21. Ottawa
22. Albuquerque
23. San Antonio
24. Philadelphia
25. Perth
26. Washington
27. Dallas
28. Nashville
29. Montreal
30. Vancouver
31. Edmonton
32. Dublin
33. Columbus
34. Adelaide
35. San Jose
36. Colorado Springs
37. Auckland
38. Atlanta
39. Tucson
40. Boise
41. Stockholm
42. Indianapolis
43. Berlin
44. Leeds
45. Madison
46. Alexandria
47. Manchester
48. Charlotte
49. Singapore
50. Salt Lake City

Top 50 NaNoWriMo Countries and Territories (based on visits during November)

1. United States
2. United Kingdom
3. Canada
4. Australia
5. Germany
6. Netherlands
7. France
8. Sweden
9. Finland
10. Brazil
11. New Zealand
12. Norway
13. Ireland
14. Spain
15. Philippines
16. Denmark
17. India
18. South Africa
19. Japan
20. Belgium
21. Austria
22. Mexico
23. Singapore
24. Italy
25. Poland
26. Switzerland
27. Malaysia
28. South Korea
29. Hungary
30. Portugal
31. Indonesia
32. Israel
33. China
34. Russia
35. Czech Republic
36. Croatia
37. Latvia
38. Romania
39. Hong Kong
40. Thailand
41. Greece
42. Argentina
43. Puerto Rico
44. Turkey
45. United Arab Emirates
46. Estonia
47. Slovenia
48. Taiwan
49. Chile
50. Bulgaria

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