How to find out how many blocks left to sync?

Question

When syncing with geth, how do you know how many blocks are left to be fully in sync?

see also this https://ethereum.stackexchange.com/a/5761/820 – Lee Aug 25 '17 at 12:08 — Lee, Aug 25 '17 at 12:08

score 3 · Answer 1 · answered Aug 25 '17 at 02:26

From the console, you can check the syncing info with:

eth.syncing

Which will return something like this:

{
  currentBlock: 4036471,
  highestBlock: 4200826,
  knownStates: 0,
  pulledStates: 0,
  startingBlock: 4028732
}

Pro tip: try the following to get the number without having to do any maths:

eth.syncing.highestBlock - eth.syncing.currentBlock

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