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Your life in weeks

An 80-year life is about 4,174 weeks. Below, each row is one year of 52 weeks and each square is one week. Enter your birthday to fill in the weeks you've already lived. Seen this way, a week is easy to count and hard to waste.

Weeks lived
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Weeks left, to 80
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Of those, on screens
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–of 80 years lived

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Weeks lived and left, by age

Using an 80-year life of about 4,174 weeks.

AgeWeeks livedWeeks left
201,0443,131
301,5652,609
402,0872,087
502,6091,565
603,1311,044
703,653522

Where the idea comes from

The life calendar, one square per week, was popularised by Tim Urban's essay Your Life in Weeks on Wait But Why. It works because weeks are a unit you can feel: you remember last week, and you can see how few summers are left in a row of squares.

How many of your weeks go to screens

At the adult average of 6:38 a day, screens take about 28% of all your hours. The screen time calculator turns your own number into years, and Timecard measures it for real on your Mac.

Your Life in Weeks
questions

How many weeks are in a lifetime?

An 80-year life is about 4,174 weeks, since a year is 52.18 weeks. At the US life expectancy of 79, it's about 4,122.

What is a life calendar?

A grid with one square for every week of a life, usually one row per year. It became popular after Tim Urban's Your Life in Weeks essay on Wait But Why. Filling in each week makes time feel finite in a way numbers don't.

How is my number of weeks worked out?

From your birthday to today, divided by 7, rounded down. Weeks left use an 80-year grid. Nothing you enter leaves your browser.

How many of my weeks go to screens?

Enter your daily screen time and the grid colours that share of your remaining weeks. At the adult average of 6 hours 38 minutes a day, it's about 40% of your waking hours. The screen time calculator turns that into years.

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