User blog comment:Latias1290/(Poll) How fast have you ever made progress?/@comment-24136443-20140224220450

For me, I've done about 10 different characters and about 30 different worlds, it usually only takes me about 3 1/2 to 4 hours to get into hardmode. Depending on what kind of class I'm going for, once in hardmode, it can take a while. The hardest part in my opinion is finding and mining all the ore needed for hardmode armors. From there its just a matter of how hard you want to work to "complete" the character. All in all a full playthrough of the game if going as fast as I can usually takes about 8-12 hours.