# How fast are your reflexes? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [July 7, 2002, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-fast-are-your-reflexes/117795 "2002-07-07T17:53:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![QueenAl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/d26b3c/32.png) [@QueenAl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QueenAl)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2002, 10:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-fast-are-your-reflexes/117795/21 "2002-07-08T10:49:37Z")
I got about 50/50 16 and 22, and a couple of 28s when I got distracted. Do my reaction times only go up in sixes or something? Oh, and I got one ‘0’ when my finger twitched too soon. 🙂 Hmm, wonder what we can do to improve our reflexes? ---
**Author:** ![taklon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/34f0e0/32.png) [@taklon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/taklon)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2002, 10:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-fast-are-your-reflexes/117795/22 "2002-07-08T10:50:51Z")
High - 0.44 Low - 0.17 Ave - 0.227 Mind you I started typing this yesterday ---
**Author:** ![LouisB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/dfb087/32.png) [@LouisB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LouisB)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2002, 10:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-fast-are-your-reflexes/117795/23 "2002-07-08T10:59:21Z")
Throwing out the high (0.39) that I got on the first attempt, my average was 0.22–that is based on twenty tries. I am 62years old and don’t know if that is a “good” score or not. ---
**Author:** ![CRorex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dfb087/32.png) [@CRorex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CRorex)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2002, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-fast-are-your-reflexes/117795/24 "2002-07-08T18:27:48Z")
I got .12-.13 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![racinchikki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/eada6e/32.png) [@racinchikki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racinchikki)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2002, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-fast-are-your-reflexes/117795/25 "2002-07-08T18:38:31Z")
.17 on a regular basis. ---
**Author:** ![jk1245](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/49beb7/32.png) [@jk1245](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jk1245)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2002, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-fast-are-your-reflexes/117795/26 "2002-07-08T19:35:07Z")
Pretty consistently .17-.18 range with a .14 (and a lucky .05) and only a few “cheater” calls. oddly, I am quite a bit faster left handed (times above) than right handed (avg ~0.2) even though I’m right handed. hmmm… ---
**Author:** ![Daerlyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/898d66/32.png) [@Daerlyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Daerlyn)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2002, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-fast-are-your-reflexes/117795/27 "2002-07-08T20:10:14Z")
Between .14 and .18 . . . and one .4 when my phone started to ring. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![bibliophage](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bibliophage/32/7615_2.png) [@bibliophage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bibliophage)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2002, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-fast-are-your-reflexes/117795/28 "2002-07-09T03:28:45Z")
Looks like I belonged in the slow class all along. I tried it again twenty times tonight and I still can’t break 0.20 seconds. Oh well. ---
**Author:** ![pravnik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8edcca/32.png) [@pravnik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pravnik)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2002, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-fast-are-your-reflexes/117795/29 "2002-07-09T04:47:59Z")
0.20 pretty consistently after about four beers. Give it another try in the morning. ---
**Author:** ![Sublight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Sublight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sublight)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2002, 5:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-fast-are-your-reflexes/117795/30 "2002-07-09T05:11:26Z")
.15-.16 average, with .13 a couple of times. ---
**Author:** ![dead0man](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/edb3f5/32.png) [@dead0man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dead0man)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2002, 5:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-fast-are-your-reflexes/117795/31 "2002-07-09T05:15:44Z")
29 year old male mostly .16’s and .22’s a few higher ones thrown in dead0man [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-fast-are-your-reflexes/117795.md?page=1)