Percentiles
Timing: how do you compare?
Median 0.4 adults counting ten seconds · rough
How far off you are when you try to stop a timer at exactly ten seconds. People who count in their head land within about half a second; rough percentiles from interval-timing studies.
adults counting ten seconds · rough
| Rank | Timing |
|---|---|
| Faster than 95% of the group | 0.05 seconds off |
| Faster than 90% of the group | 0.1 seconds off |
| Faster than 75% of the group | 0.2 seconds off |
| Faster than 50% of the group | 0.4 seconds off |
| Faster than 25% of the group | 0.7 seconds off |
| Faster than 10% of the group | 1.1 seconds off |
| Faster than 5% of the group | 1.6 seconds off |
Rough percentile anchors assembled from surveys and reports; treat them as ballpark figures.