I used the ReflexTester. After practicing for a while, I got down to an average of 0.27 or 0.28 seconds. My best time was 0.16, but that may have been a fluke, since that was the only time I got below 0.20.
At school we did a test where one person held a ruler between your fingers. when they let go you had to catch the ruler. I caught the ruler quicker than everyone else in the class, almost every time. (the speed is ‘recorded’ by the fact that the quicker you catch the ruler, the less ruler will be underneath your fingers)
I was also a good goalkeeper, until I started to get rubbish at it, then I started to be a good defender (soccer) also requiring quick reflexes.
So in answer to your question - fast enough.
I am off to use the reflex tester - which will probably prove that reflexes is one of the things I’ve lost with age.
I guess 0.16 will be the average between young dopers. I get it almost every time. with the odd 0.14 or a few 4s and 5s which say ‘have you been drinking?’
funny thing is - if I was drinking, my reactions would probably be faster.
I humbly apologise for the number of replies to this. I am just quite excited that I still have good reflexes when I am fat, and eat junk food all the time.
I always thought I was clumsy as hell, but had reasonably fast reflexes (which kept me from falling on my face every ten minutes as I tripped over things). I guess my reflexes haven’t slowed down that much at 46 years old.
The majority of my hits were .17, with the slowest being .22, and with one exception, the fastest were all .15.
The exception was .05. I accidentally clicked to soon, and the color changed after I started to click, but before I finished. The comment said “You can’t do much better than that”. But it was just a fluke.
I’m getting .16 consistantly, occaisonaly getting a .22 (are these the only numbers it knows how to give? Sheesh.) I pressed to early once and got a .05, heh.
I posted a site like this not too long ago. Back then I sucked, but tonight I got a .161 right out of the gate. Thinking it was a fluke, I kept on trying. In order, I got a 21, 16, 16, 17.