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On October 17 2013 13:39 MrCon wrote:

You know that to be considered an expert at anything you have to spend about 10000 hours on it. Nearly there =p

On October 17 2013 13:45 Kishin2 wrote:
Hours on dota 2 =/= hours played.

On October 17 2013 13:47 Kuroeeah wrote:

NB is on the "most played games" page in Dotabuff lol

On October 17 2013 13:53 Kishin2 wrote:

That was in response to the idea (which isn't necessarily true) that it takes 10000 hours to master something. He has 7500 hours logged on Dota 2 but 4500 matches played. If you consider each match to be 1 hour long, an overestimation, that's only 4500 hours of games played.

Edit: There's actually a "time spent playing" statistic on dotabuff. The highest on their has ~6000 matches played and ~172 days, or ~4000 hours spent playing. So the average game length is about 40 minutes.

On October 17 2013 13:44 Kuroeeah wrote:

I dont even think pros has that kind of hour count.

On October 17 2013 15:56 FinestHour wrote:
its comforting to know that no one is perfect
everyone has something that they can always improve on

On October 17 2013 16:18 rabidch wrote:

perfect is shit

On October 17 2013 13:39 MrCon wrote:

You know that to be considered an expert at anything you have to spend about 10000 hours on it. Nearly there =p

On October 17 2013 13:53 Kishin2 wrote:

That was in response to the idea (which isn't necessarily true) that it takes 10000 hours to master something. He has 7500 hours logged on Dota 2 but 4500 matches played. If you consider each match to be 1 hour long, an overestimation, that's only 4500 hours of games played.

Edit: There's actually a "time spent playing" statistic on dotabuff. The highest on their has ~6000 matches played and ~172 days, or ~4000 hours spent playing. So the average game length is about 40 minutes.