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See also: http://norvig.com/21-days.html (Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years by Peter Norvig)

I did some napkin math on the 10,000 hour thing.

10,000 hours is N hours daily for M years

3 hours for 10 years.

4 hours 15 min for 7 years

5 hours for 6 years

6 hours for 5 years

7 hours 30 min for 4 years

10 hours a day for 3 years

15 hours a day for 2 years

Just incase somebody wants to pick up a new skill =).

Thanks. And that is "deliberate practice" which is a whole other magnitude of difficulty from just practice or play.