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Brits are the ultimate keyboard warriors, playing video games hours longer than their global rivals, virtual private network provider听NordVPN听can reveal.

Brits typically spend a colossal听4hrs 36mins听a week gaming, playing听98.6%听longer than other countries 鈥� the equivalent of five extra days of solid playing per year.

They battle it out online nearly twice as long as international opponents, with overseas game players clocking up听2hrs 19mins听on average.

surveyed more than 15,000 people from 16 of the world鈥檚 most advanced digital economies.

While Britain tops the table, it鈥檚 the Swedes who spend the least time gaming, dedicating just 30mins to it each week.

The only things Brits spend more time doing online are watching TV/films (7hrs 55mins), using social media (4hrs 57mins) and listening to music (4hrs 42mins).听[see full table and top 5 hacked games below]

However, Brits slip to fourth in the table when it comes to the total proportion of their lives spent online.

Despite putting in an eye-watering 58hrs 45mins into their digital lives each week, they are eclipsed by Brazilians who rack up a staggering 91hrs 24mins. That鈥檚 equivalent to 218 days a year or 88% of their waking lives.

At the other end of the scale, people in Japan 鈥� a country that created some of the world鈥檚 best-known video game companies like Sega and Nintendo 鈥� spend just 22hrs 38mins online each week, and only 55mins of that gaming.

Previous NordVPN听research听revealed the five most hacked games, based on the volume of videos featuring in-game hacking uploaded to YouTube². Fortnite came top followed by听Overwatch, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, Call of Duty: Warzone and Destiny 2.

Marijus Briedis, CTO and digital privacy expert at听NordVPN, said:

鈥淏rits were big early adopters during the computer game revolution at the end of the last century and they鈥檝e been in love with gaming ever since.

鈥淭he UK was an important market for games manufacturers in the 1990s. It was bursting at the seams with young fans with plenty of pocket money to spend and, with a cooler climate keeping Brits indoors for much of the year, it meant a nation of gamers was born.

鈥淭his infatuation with an ever-expanding universe of games has become a national pastime and has been passed down from generation to generation.鈥�

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