Reaction Time Benchmark
Complete 5 rounds and see your average reaction time in milliseconds, benchmarked against other players.
Test your reaction speed. Click the amber area as fast as you can when it appears.
- Wait for the amber stimulus to appear
- Click as fast as you can
- Complete 5 trials for your average score
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Average reaction times
Where does an average land? As an external reference point, Human Benchmark — a popular public reaction-time site — reports a median of about 273 milliseconds across millions of attempts at the same click-when-it-changes task. We calibrate this benchmark against our own anchor, a mean of 280 milliseconds with a standard deviation of 60, chosen to sit close to that public figure. The table below is our scale, not a measurement of the world: it shows the share of people each average would beat on that calibration.
| Average reaction time | Faster than |
|---|---|
| 200 ms | 91% of people |
| 240 ms | 75% of people |
| 280 ms | 50% of people |
| 320 ms | 25% of people |
| 360 ms | 9% of people |
What your screen and mouse add
A benchmark like this never measures your reflexes alone — it measures your whole setup. A 60-hertz display can hold a frame back by up to about 16 milliseconds before you even see the change, and a wireless mouse or keyboard can add several more between your click and the browser hearing it. Those tens of milliseconds inflate everyone's number, which is why a result is only fair to compare against another taken on similar hardware — and why chasing a personal best is more meaningful than measuring yourself against someone else's rig.
How reaction time changes with age
Reaction time is quickest in the late teens and twenties and slows gradually across adulthood — a general, well-replicated finding rather than a precise clock. The drift is slow and varies a great deal from person to person, and staying rested and active blunts it, so treat age as a gentle tendency in the background, not a verdict on any single result.
Frequently asked questions
Is a faster reaction time a sign of higher intelligence?
Only loosely. Processing speed correlates with general intelligence, but the relationship is weak — plenty of very sharp people have unremarkable reflexes and vice versa. A quick average here is a fun data point about your reflexes, not a measure of your intellect.
Why is my time slower here than on another site?
Small differences between reaction-time sites are normal and usually come down to hardware and how each site timestamps the click. What matters is comparing like with like: your own results over time on the same device tell you far more than one number measured against a stranger's setup.
What is a normal reaction time?
For a simple visual click, typical adult averages cluster a little either side of a quarter of a second. Our scale is centred on 280 milliseconds, close to the roughly 273-millisecond median that Human Benchmark reports publicly — so an average near there is thoroughly ordinary, not slow.
Keep reading
Want to practise before you benchmark again, or dig into what the number really tells you? Start here.