I was so excited for this chair, but it took me around 3 hrs to assemble this abomination of a chair. It was notoriously difficult to assemble! For some perspective, it took me 4 hrs to assemble my bedframe and a desk from ground up. The parts didn't fit right, the screws too were short, and every moment I was cursing whoever designed those parts--it felt as if they wanted to make the assembler suffer. The instructions also didn't make sense, given the part design. So I simply ditched them and somehow managed to assemble the chair. The chair itself feels nice, so I am giving it 3 stars.