How fast can you start and stop your watch?

This thread amuses me. I used to do this for fun but my favorite stopwatch game is to try and end at exactly :00, for example, start your watch and try to stop it at 1.00. It was very rewarding to get it right on the dot.

randomcoach wrote:

Have done 0.01. Still not sure how.

I have, too. Ran it across some surface real fast, and it went on and off in .001.

Don't you boys have something better to do like some Excel spreadsheets to massage in your corporate cubicles under florescent lights?

There's an app for this. One is called sprint start timer. You get a command, "On your marks," "Set," Go." You either shake the phone to get reaction time or set the phone on back of your starting block. My best shake reaction time is 0.16 seconds. My best block reaction time is 0.45 seconds... pretty bad, I know.

The stuff we used to do to amuse ourselves before we had smart phones.

Usually I'd be .07-.10, every once in a while I'd get lucky and get to .06.

We would also see who could get closest to 10.00 without looking at the watch. Once we tried to see who could get closest to a minute without looking, that was crazy!!!! We really lived on the edge.

With a Timex Ironman I just went .08, .09, .09, .10. Then I tried to hit exactly 1 second without looking - 1.29, 1.04, .94, .93. Then four trials of hitting exactly 10 seconds without looking - 11.02, 9.95!, 9.60, 9.55. I capped it off with a single trial of exactly 1 minute and hit 1:01.54! Am I hobby stopwatcher or sub-elite?

lolkittenz wrote:

With a Timex Ironman I just went .08, .09, .09, .10. Then I tried to hit exactly 1 second without looking - 1.29, 1.04, .94, .93. Then four trials of hitting exactly 10 seconds without looking - 11.02, 9.95!, 9.60, 9.55. I capped it off with a single trial of exactly 1 minute and hit 1:01.54! Am I hobby stopwatcher or sub-elite?

It depends how relaxed you were when you did this watch-workout.

I just tried to play this game. My co-workers were wondering why they were hearing annoying beep sounds from my office.

And for some reason I can't play this game on my Casio watch because it doesn't let you stop it right way - you have to wait an obligatory period before the stop becomes effective. Bummer.

With a Nike Triax 300 Aluminum I hit .06

With a Nike Triax 300 Aluminum I hit .06

Predict my time wrote:

I did 10x 0.16 with 60s rest. What could I do in a race?

POTD

More info needed. Weekly millisecondage, your fingers more slow-twitch or fast twitch, previous PRs? If I were to bite, I'd say 0.08. Maybe a little faster if you taper.

gills brah wrote:

Predict my time wrote:

I did 10x 0.16 with 60s rest. What could I do in a race?

POTD

Predict my time wrote:

I did 10x 0.16 with 60s rest. What could I do in a race?

Way too much rest.

Truth Detector wrote:

This thread amuses me. I used to do this for fun but my favorite stopwatch game is to try and end at exactly :00, for example, start your watch and try to stop it at 1.00. It was very rewarding to get it right on the dot.

Yes VERY rewarding I'm sure

Commender of hobbies wrote:

Truth Detector wrote:

This thread amuses me. I used to do this for fun but my favorite stopwatch game is to try and end at exactly :00, for example, start your watch and try to stop it at 1.00. It was very rewarding to get it right on the dot.

Yes VERY rewarding I'm sure

I doubt anything in life can be more rewarding than that.

i had a friend in high school who could do 0.04 on an ironman watch as well. I could only ever do 0.06 and maybe got 0.05 once.fun. My Garmin 610 would NOT be able to get anywhere near that but could tell you the grade adjusted pace on strava once uploaded via garmin connect.haha

sloflash wrote:

It's all about technique and hardware. We used to burn time on the bus this way many many years ago (late 80s). With old Timex Ironman watches we could get down to 0.03-0.04 (start & stop were the same front-facing button, so you had to use the same finger). By the end of the year, my button had fallen off from abuse.

Stopwatch Games wrote:

The stuff we used to do to amuse ourselves before we had smart phones.

Usually I'd be .07-.10, every once in a while I'd get lucky and get to .06.

We would also see who could get closest to 10.00 without looking at the watch. Once we tried to see who could get closest to a minute without looking, that was crazy!!!! We really lived on the edge.

Start adding in push-ups to your workouts. You'll be under 0.03 consistently.

Take all the WR times

write each on a slip of paper

put then in a cup

pull one out and try to match it with you stopwatch

record and return slip

repeat until you complete the whole set.

On the ones you had multiple tries at you can pick the closest.

record the under timed ones as - and the over as +

add your results for the set

then multiple that number by the number of attempts

Voila ! your official watch stopping score.

. Need I say no clocks or outside prompts to do any of the distances? Yup I think I do!

the Half Marathon and Marathon are really really hard.

Watch jockey wrote:

We spent many a high hour in college trying to see how close we could get to 10.00 seconds without looking at the watch.

Yeah we used to do this too on the bus on the way two and from meets. Until I actually succeeded one time and we all stood up and cheered while everyone else on the bus stared at us. I retired after that since I had accomplished all I could in the sport