There are all these age polls on the forums, but one never really knows if the results are due to more young people voting or less old people being online or what. And of course, all those amusing geezer threads where the elders complain about all those whippersnappers taking over the whole thing.
So, being the crazy person that I am, I decided to look up everyone's ages via the handy-dandy Nano search. Bear in mind that the following chart does not take into account people who lie about their ages or the numerous youngsters taking part in the Young Writers Program. Total number of Nanowrimo participants as of today: 35312; Number of people with age in their profile: 20565; Number of people with unreported/other ages: 14747.
What a nice distribution! And notice the spike at age 18. So there definitely are a bunch of teenagers running the board. Which sort of makes sense. The younger you are, the more likely you're willing to do something as crazy as writing a novel in a month.
In December, watch for another graph showing the age distribution of the winners.
