Wisconsin is the fifth most solitaire obsessed state, playing 3 hours and 23 minutes per year on average
- Wisconsin takes 5th place.
- Arizonans spend the most time playing online solitaire, clocking in 4 hours 2 minutes per year on average.
- California, Alaska, Colorado and Wisconsin are among the states that spend the most time playing the online card game.
A new study reveals the states that are spending the most time playing online Solitaire.
Solitaired, one of the world’s largest online solitaire sites, analyzed the average amount of time people from each state spent on their site over the past year, based on data for 9.4 million American users.
Arizonans were found to spend the most time playing online solitaire, with the average user logging an impressive 4 hours and 2 minutes on the site between October 2022 – 2023.
With 146,578 users residing in the Grand Canyon State, this means that Arizonans play a whopping 592,107 hours of online solitaire per year on average. Arizona also has the equivalent of 199 online solitaire players per 10,000 residents, based on the data.
Californians are the second biggest solitaire lovers, with the average user spending an average of 3 hours 51 minutes on the site each year, or 2.2 million hours across all users. More than half a million Solitaired users (575,136) were found to reside in California, which is the equivalent of 147 players per 10,000 residents.
Alaska ranks in third place. Given its smaller population of around 733,000 residents, the state understandably has fewer users than larger states, at just 10,371 overall. Despite this, the average Alaskan user was found to have spent 3 hours 46 minutes playing online solitaire over the past year, the equivalent of 39,207 hours in total across all users.
Colorado places fourth, with the average user logging 3 hours 31 minutes over the past year. Colorado was found to have the largest percentage of new users during this period, with 16.7% of users visiting the site for the first time.
Wisconsin places fifth, with each user averaging 3 hours 23 minutes per year.
Vermont was found to spend the least amount of time playing online solitaire, with a paltry 1 hour 14 minutes on average per user over the past year. Despite this, Vermont had the second largest proportion of its population using the site, with 887 users per 10,000 residents.
States ranked by average amount of time users spent playing online solitaire each year
|
Rank |
State |
Number of users |
Average number of hours all users spent playing online solitaire per year |
Average user duration per year (HH:MM:SS) |
|
1. |
Arizona |
146,578 |
592,107 |
4:02:22 |
|
2. |
California |
575,136 |
2,215,542 |
3:51:08 |
|
3. |
Alaska |
10,371 |
39,207 |
3:46:50 |
|
4. |
Colorado |
136,706 |
479,754 |
3:30:34 |
|
5. |
Wisconsin |
175,382 |
593,867 |
3:23:10 |
|
6. |
Texas |
476,256 |
1,596,125 |
3:21:05 |
|
7. |
Utah |
61,356 |
204,846 |
3:20:19 |
|
8. |
Florida |
524,350 |
1,702,079 |
3:14:46 |
|
9. |
New Jersey |
169,069 |
547,171 |
3:14:11 |
|
10. |
Hawaii |
27,001 |
87,104 |
3:13:33 |
|
11. |
Washington |
221,848 |
711,171 |
3:12:20 |
|
12. |
Minnesota |
164,850 |
515,834 |
3:07:45 |
|
13. |
Illinois |
360,600 |
1,121,094 |
3:06:32 |
|
14. |
Maryland |
136,048 |
418,763 |
3:04:41 |
|
15. |
Missouri |
178,487 |
542,950 |
3:02:31 |
|
16. |
Oregon |
139,050 |
417,893 |
3:00:19 |
|
17. |
Pennsylvania |
355,737 |
1,057,111 |
2:58:18 |
|
18. |
New Mexico |
51,012 |
149,570 |
2:55:55 |
|
19. |
Massachusetts |
254,205 |
704,519 |
2:46:17 |
|
20. |
Oklahoma |
112,766 |
300,595 |
2:39:56 |
|
21. |
Ohio |
391,270 |
1,015,074 |
2:35:40 |
|
22. |
New York |
549,672 |
1,417,234 |
2:34:42 |
|
23. |
Alabama |
124,597 |
310,216 |
2:29:23 |
|
24. |
Connecticut |
123,274 |
300,841 |
2:26:26 |
|
25. |
Montana |
48,681 |
118,574 |
2:26:09 |
|
26. |
North Carolina |
341,838 |
831,455 |
2:25:56 |
|
27. |
Michigan |
343,636 |
834,424 |
2:25:42 |
|
28. |
Rhode Island |
37,215 |
88,382 |
2:22:30 |
|
29. |
Iowa |
141,750 |
333,415 |
2:21:08 |
|
30. |
Nevada |
89,222 |
205,997 |
2:18:32 |
|
31. |
Wyoming |
26,265 |
59,855 |
2:16:44 |
|
32. |
Louisiana |
117,713 |
267,920 |
2:16:34 |
|
33. |
Idaho |
76,109 |
171,282 |
2:15:02 |
|
34. |
Arkansas |
97,249 |
213,777 |
2:11:54 |
|
35. |
Nebraska |
95,182 |
207,406 |
2:10:45 |
|
36. |
Indiana |
257,662 |
552,308 |
2:08:37 |
|
37. |
Georgia |
426,371 |
910,026 |
2:08:04 |
|
38. |
Kansas |
122,697 |
258,449 |
2:06:23 |
|
39. |
Tennessee |
235,937 |
496,045 |
2:06:09 |
|
40. |
Virginia |
436,132 |
904,401 |
2:04:25 |
|
41. |
South Carolina |
193,400 |
384,242 |
1:59:12 |
|
42. |
South Dakota |
56,318 |
103,268 |
1:50:01 |
|
43. |
Kentucky |
197,789 |
359,484 |
1:49:03 |
|
44. |
Mississippi |
89,605 |
161,005 |
1:47:49 |
|
45. |
Delaware |
50,010 |
84,541 |
1:41:26 |
|
46. |
North Dakota |
47,726 |
73,234 |
1:32:04 |
|
47. |
Maine |
125,857 |
188,446 |
1:29:50 |
|
48. |
New Hampshire |
102,367 |
146,744 |
1:26:01 |
|
49. |
West Virginia |
120,803 |
156,772 |
1:17:52 |
|
50. |
Vermont |
57,418 |
70,623 |
1:13:48 |
Neal Taparia, one of the co-founders of Solitaired commented:
“It’s fascinating to see such large disparities in how long users from different states spend on our site. The odd game here and there quickly add up, with the average American user spending more than 2.5 hours a year playing solitaire online, according to our findings.
“It’s worth noting that these figures represent the average duration each user spends on the site, which means there will be a number of people who greatly exceed this playtime, while others may visit the site and never return.”
ENDS
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Methodology:
Google Analytics 4 was used to find how long the average user spent on Solitaired.com between 18 October 2022 and 18 October 2023, for each American state. Census Bureau’s state population estimates (2022) were then used to find the number of Solitaired users per 10,000 residents in each state. Data correct as of 18 October 2023.
Author: David Keech
David Keech is a retired teacher and works as a sportswriter, sports official and as an educational consultant. He has reported on amateur sports since 2011, known as 'KeechDaVoice.' David can be reached at [email protected]
