# How good are you at guessing when 120 seconds have elapsed?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-good-are-you-at-guessing-when-120-seconds-have-elapsed/405804
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [May 28, 2007, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-good-are-you-at-guessing-when-120-seconds-have-elapsed/405804 "2007-05-28T17:24:16Z")
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### Author:  [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)
#### Post date: [May 28, 2007, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-good-are-you-at-guessing-when-120-seconds-have-elapsed/405804/1 "2007-05-28T17:24:16Z")
I’m pretty poor at it.
I’ll get the now-famous
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> This forum requires that you wait 120 seconds before submitting another search. You have \_\_ seconds to wait before another search will be allowed.
about half the time, and maybe half of those will be with less than 5 seconds to go.
In the good old days I rarely missed the 60. But adapting to 120 is a skill I’ve yet to acquire.
How about you?
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### Author:  [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)
#### Post date: [May 28, 2007, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-good-are-you-at-guessing-when-120-seconds-have-elapsed/405804/2 "2007-05-28T17:39:58Z")
Easy. I just take the amount of time it takes me to have sex, and multiply by 4!
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### Author:  [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)
#### Post date: [May 28, 2007, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-good-are-you-at-guessing-when-120-seconds-have-elapsed/405804/3 "2007-05-28T17:40:50Z")
[QUOTE=silenus]
Easy. I just take the amount of time it takes me to have sex, and multiply by 4!
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Ah. Scientific, eh?
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### Author:  [@fighting\_ignorant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fighting_ignorant)
#### Post date: [May 28, 2007, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-good-are-you-at-guessing-when-120-seconds-have-elapsed/405804/4 "2007-05-28T23:52:58Z")
By my esitmate, I am answering this question exactly 120 seconds after it was posted. I think I am pretty damn bad at this though.
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### Author:  [@Tibidabo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tibidabo)
#### Post date: [May 29, 2007, 11:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-good-are-you-at-guessing-when-120-seconds-have-elapsed/405804/5 "2007-05-29T11:13:29Z")
Yeah, I’m fairly accurate with 60 seconds too, but 120 is disproportionately harder :dubious:
An easy way to cheat:
establish your resting heart beat rate, per minute…
then with your thumb slyly on your pulse, just count the beats.
Not sure if that will ever come in useful, but there ya go.
Ken Kesey used it to puzzle doctors with his amazing time keeping accuracy, when he was understandably expected to be way waaaay off… during LSD research tests in '59 😃
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### Author:  [@MsRobyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsRobyn)
#### Post date: [May 29, 2007, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-good-are-you-at-guessing-when-120-seconds-have-elapsed/405804/6 "2007-05-29T15:10:38Z")
I’m pretty good at it, but only because my watch has a loud tick. I just count the ticks.
Robin