I have put a lot of office chairs together in my day so when I say this is the easiest chair I've put together I truly mean it. The pictured instructions were excellent. Everything lined up perfectly and I didn't need any help from my husband to put the seat on the base. I just closed up the box it came in and set the seat upside-down on the end of the box picked the base up and joined them flip the chair upright read the instructions for loosening the tension on the back and that was it! I didn't time myself but it took way less time that I could ever have imagined that it would take. I couldn't be happier that I purchased this chair.