Reaction Time Statistics
The whole distribution, not just the average. Find where your number sits, and see plainly where these figures come from.
The distribution
Reaction times are not spread evenly. They pile up between about 200 and 300 milliseconds and then trail off slowly to the right, because there is a hard floor near 100 ms set by nerve conduction but no ceiling at all on being tired or distracted.
Percentile table
Read this as: a score of X beats this percentage of people.
| Average | Beats | How it reads |
|---|---|---|
| 120 ms | 99.9% | Elite |
| 150 ms | 99.5% | Elite |
| 170 ms | 97.5% | Excellent |
| 200 ms | 86% | Fast |
| 230 ms | 65% | Above average |
| 250 ms | 49% | Above average |
| 280 ms | 30% | Average |
| 300 ms | 20% | Below average |
| 340 ms | 8% | Slow |
| 380 ms | 4% | Slow |
| 450 ms | 1.5% | Slow |
Look up your own score
Type any time in milliseconds to see where it falls.
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Where these numbers come from
The curve is a reference distribution for a simple visual reaction with a button or mouse press, assembled from published population figures: a median in the mid 250s, a floor near 100 ms set by nerve conduction and muscle latency rather than by effort, and a long right tail. It is the same table the tests on this site use to work out a percentile, and it lives in one file so the number you see on a result screen and the number you see here cannot drift apart.
Two caveats travel with every figure on this page. The first is equipment: a browser measurement includes your monitor, your input device and your operating system, which is commonly 10 to 40 ms before your nervous system is involved at all. The second is that a percentile is a comparison against a population, not a verdict about you. The average reaction time page goes through both properly, and reaction time by age covers how the curve shifts across a lifetime.
Why we do not publish visitor data
We could label this chart as our own data and almost nobody would check. We have not, because it would not mean what it appears to mean. A distribution built from site traffic is shaped by how many people mistapped on a phone, how many were testing the page rather than their reflexes, and how many retried until they got a number they liked.
Nothing you do here is uploaded, so there is no visitor database to publish even if we wanted one. Your scores stay in your browser, which is also why the table above can only show what this device has seen. It is the same reason there is no leaderboard: on a test this easy to fake, a public ranking would measure persistence rather than reflexes.
Ready to add a number to it? The reaction time test takes about twenty seconds.
All the tests
Reflex and speed
- Reaction time Click the moment the screen turns green. Five rounds, averaged.
- F1 start lights Five red lights out, then go. The Formula 1 start procedure.
- Sound reaction React to a tone instead of a colour. Eyes closed if you like.
- Aim trainer Thirty targets, as fast as you can hit them.
- Clicks per second How many times can you click in ten seconds.
- Frame timing Hit a one frame window. Precision rather than reaction, scored in frames.
- Peek reaction (Valorant) React to an enemy peeking a random angle at head height. Built for Valorant.
- Peek reaction (CS2) The same peek reaction test, framed around sub-tick and why one-taps reward reaction more than sprays.
- Peek reaction (Apex Legends) The same peek reaction test, framed around third-person peeking and third-partying.
- Peek reaction (Fortnite) The same peek reaction test, framed around why building decides more fights than reaction does.
- Typing speed Words per minute and accuracy over sixty seconds.
Memory and attention
- Number memory One more digit every level. Most people stop around seven.
- Visual memory Remember the pattern of squares as the board grows.
- Sequence memory Repeat the order the tiles light up in.
- Verbal memory Seen this word already, or is it new? The list grows every time you are right.
- Chimp test The number test chimpanzees beat humans at.
Reading
- Average reaction time What the typical human reaction time actually is, and where the 250 ms figure comes from.
- Reaction time by age How reaction speed changes from childhood through older age.
- World records The fastest reaction times ever measured, and which claims hold up.
- Pro player reaction times TenZ, Shroud and the numbers people quote, with where each one actually came from.