How much time do you spend on a review?

How much time do you spend on a review usually? Ten minutes? One hour? Ten seconds? I'm just asking because I'm curious.

Personally, I spend about ten minutes per review. Sometimes I'll spend 15 minutes when I'm looking for specific articles either here on YWS or somewhere else that I think will help the author. Yet, I can never spend more than 20 minutes only because I get bored.

Depends. If I want to give my opinion, 5 to 10 minutes.
If I want to give a good, full review, I'll take between 20 minutes to half an hour.

I'm assuming you don't include actually reading the piece, which would mean only about ten to fifteen minutes. But my reading comprehension isn't so great, and it takes a while for me to read and let it sink in. With poetry, I need to read it slowly at least three times before I fully understand what's happening. And how else do you review without reading it? xD

Depending on the length of the post, anywhere from 10-20 minutes, although some have gone much longer.

It all depends on how distracted I get by other things However, I will say between 10-15 minutes on most of the reviews I do. Just because I'm terribly slow.

Fifteen to twenty minutes for prose, usually, but that depends on how long the piece is and (like Jabs said) how long it takes to read. Sometimes I start a critique in the morning and can't finish until the evening. I don't always measure by time, though-- I just end when I'm done pointing out things.

Usually about 20 minutes if it's not a request. Requests are 30 minutes to an hour, now. When I'm going into great detail then it's an hour or two.

However, the reading can take up another 10/20 minutes depending on the work, since I like to read the story once or twice.

Rosey Unicorn wrote:Requests are 30 minutes to half an hour, now.

I'm just wondering whether I should say anything?

*internal debate*

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*debate over*

That's awesome, Rosey.

I usually spend about 10-15 minutes.

Most works posted here are only a page or two in length. Ten minutes max to review. But I also like to review several chapters at a time, which could easily be 15,000 words, and that takes me hours. The more I read, the more problems I see and the more complex and interconnected they are - I might need to let it percolate for a while before I really understand the fundamental problem. Writing up a long critique can take a while as well: I might give examples, suggested revisions, rules of thumb, links to other resources, etc.

Poetry: About 10 minutes.

Fiction: 15-30 minutes, depending on length.

Art: 5 minutes ~ not because it's rushed, but because I have strong impressions and close eye for feature improvements. It's more observant... less time spent re-reading, etc.

Grin- I changed that...

Karsten- I'd almost forgotten about my reviews that went like that, haha. When I go over a lot in one chapter and see how each problem is interconnected. Weaving those out is so fun.

Five to fifteen minutes. If it takes any longer, I am severely distracted.

For me it totally depends on what it is, the length of the piece, how much improvements it needs, and how many other things I'm doing at that moment.
When I was doing the whole crazy poetry thing with the minions then my reviews took me about 7 minutes, but normally they range around the 15-20 minute mark. Obviously some take longer, and some are shorter.

An overall is 10-15 minutes. A nit pick or request is 20-45 minutes. I like my critiques to be thorough.
About reading comprehension? I generally only skim the piece before reviewing. I find critiques done as you read to be more helpful.

Depends. However, I can usually pick out all the things that bug me and give my advice the author within 20-25 minutes. If I really liked a piece, I will spend 5-10 minutes praising what I liked and helping them find a way that they could improve.