Looked in the logbook and it took me 17 hours of trainning to get to test standard.
I can honestly say that it was one of the hardest things that I have done on aviation (along with the A320 gouund engineers course) because it was all so new to me, after the IMC the IR was just a bit more practice!
Go do it the IMC will give you a whole new perspective and improve your flying skills and don't listen to the peope who belittle the IMC rating, education is never waisted !