1000 hours would mean (someone check my math here, think I missed something) you play an average of 4 and a half hours of Skyrim per day since release.

Wut da hell man.

around 350

The time is split into 6 different chars.... Thanks for the all those who had kind words and IMHO, it was time well spent....

between all of my characters, i have logged between 1100 and 1200. but i have 4 characters currently, and deleted 1 to make space for the latest. Sweetpea the Blind, a fine specimen of a redguard asskicking apparatus.

Ugh... yeah. I broke the 200 hour mark a week ago. Think of all the books I could have read. Oh well, back to playing Skyrim.

after all the DLC's come out and i've beaten the pantaloons off of those, i think i'll be close to 5000 hours.

Congrats to op!

this is the only game i play since its release and im about 300 so far...i dont know how some people can spend hours and hours playing in 1 sitting, dont you need food and rest?

And I thought I played too much Skyrim. 1000 is unhealthy.

As great as the game is, wouldn't it be overwhelmingly boring to play that long?

I've clocked a little over 180 hours across two characters.

Aha!~ I see that you did there! =)

Oh my, i've played far too many hours of Oblivion. Far too many. 3,000 hours and up. After a certain point you just stop tracking or being able to count those. In my defence the game did come out in 2006.
I've managed to split my game time between Skyrim on xbox 360 and Skyrim on the PC. Be patient, you'll love those mods. As for agorophobia and anxiety good job you found Tamriel! It's such a relaxing place!
A lot of people like to just re-play it and many more just enjoy spending time in Tamriel and role playing. Sure you've maybe 100 hours gameplay just doing everything in the game but there are so many different ways to do things, to see things. That's part of why you'll hear of people consitently playing these games for hundreds of hours.

I think I've got around 500 hours across 3 characters

It's funny how many people are clearly mad at themselves for some reason related to playing video games so they make comments like, "You wasted those 800 hours."

It's okay guys. You spent time playing video games. So long as you don't live in a third world country, it's called 'free-time'. (Instead of, you should be hunting for food or walking to the well for your daily supply of water) It first appeared many hundreds of years ago, and has allowed the invention of many key things in the world. Without it, we wouldn't be where we are a world. You spend your's playing video games, for entertainment, so that you may focus and work hard elsewhere. It's okay. You don't have to be mad at yourself.

I noticed that too, we're gamers here, most of us at least. We understand the enjoyment of playing games and games are not just 'kids stuff'. If anything here I would expect people to be proud of that effort they put into the game. Some people must be in denial that they enjoy games! That is a bad place to be

I played about 600h not counting with the characters I deleted and my first save that was overwritten by the second one I created which had a little more than 100h in it

That does rather depend on how long one spends at it, whether one does meet one's other obligations, whether one could relax more creatively, etc. I'm sure that at least some of the time I've spent playing Skyrim could have been better spent. Just saying.

120 hours is enough time to do every quest on the game and dive every dungeon, twice.

I haven't quite reached that mark yet.

I'm pretty sure people who play online games such as COD, gears of war etc. has pretty much put hundreds of hours into it and they just dont know it. Its funny how some peoples perspective are on things. They would bash you for playing Skyrim for hundreds of hours but then dont realize they put that same amount of time into gaming in general. Also who really cares if you put a lot of hours in the game. That doesnt mean that every single day you sit down and play for 15 hours. All it means is that those hours you put in accumulate over time.

Maybe doing a speed run, where you already know where everything is and exactly where to go.

And if you DO already know these things, it means you've clearly invested even more time than that.

I spend entire evenings just leveling skills and doing maintenance/crafting/shopping/etc. I may not even delve a dungeon for several play sessions.

Gladly, the show doesn't have as much impact over there. Culture difference I suppose. I prefer him shouting at english people.
And i'd like to add with things like Steam it's always counting your time, even when you've popped away to do something random. Same for Xbox or PS really, the gametime is always being logged. You do make a point about online games, I wonder how many hours would those players who have maximum points on CoD have? Especially if they were able to calculate their gametime over the last 4 years.

Are you crazy? Do you play on easy and fast travel every where? I bet you do lol.

I play on Novice But I really really svck at games. Imagine you let an old person, or a 5 year old play, then imagine... worse. That's me. Still 500+ hours in. I roleplay.

You're good at maths, aren't you? I've played 928 hours and I've got the game on the 16th of November; how much of my life did I spend on it?

To those who are ashamed to play; why do you do it then?