Percentiles
Breath hold: how do you compare?
Median 1:00 untrained adults · rough
Holding your breath at rest, no oxygen beforehand. Rough percentiles; free divers are a different species.
untrained adults · rough
| Percentile | Breath hold |
|---|---|
| 5th percentile | 0:25 |
| 10th percentile | 0:30 |
| 25th percentile | 0:45 |
| 50th percentile | 1:00 |
| 75th percentile | 1:25 |
| 90th percentile | 1:50 |
| 95th percentile | 2:10 |
Rough percentile anchors assembled from surveys and reports; treat them as ballpark figures. The slider on the main page runs past this table up to the record: Budimir Šobat, 24 min 37 s after breathing pure oxygen, 2021.