Reaction Time Test: Help Me With A School Project!

Kenny · **Posted:** March 4th, 2011, 4:35 pm

Hi Guys. I need your help with my school coursework!

I'm doing GCSE Stats at school and for our coursework we're doing a project on reaction times. We have to collect the data first hand and I need around 40 pieces of data, although 50 will be ideal.

What I need you to do is:

1. Take this test

http://getyourwebsitehere.com/jswb/rttest01.html

2. Post your result, along with a few other pieces of data, in this format.

Average Reaction Time:
Gender:
Time Test Is Taken:
Age (if you don't feel comfortable, post an age bracket):

Please only do the test once, if you get a 'bad' time it doesn't matter, I only need it to stick on a graph. Doing the test too many times might distort the data because naturally, with practice you'll only get better

Thank you very much.

Adbot · **Posted:** March 4th, 2011, 4:35 pm

Bryan · **Posted:** March 4th, 2011, 4:50 pm

Average Reaction Time: 0.27140000000000003
Gender: Male
Time Test is Taken: I don't know if you meant clock time, or the results, so I'll just put both...

4:49 PM

The times that the test was taken however, was 1.

Age: 15

Iron Maiden · **Posted:** March 4th, 2011, 7:47 pm

Test # 1- 0.25 Secs
#2- 0.203 Secs
#3- 0.235 Secs
#4- 0.188 Secs
#5- 0.234 Secs

Average Reaction Time: 0.22199999999999997
Gender: Male
Time Test Is Taken: 1 if you mean how many times I tried. 9:45PM if you mean what time it was when I took it.
Age (if you don't feel comfortable, post an age bracket): 18

Hope this helps you. It was a fun test.

trekkie · **Posted:** March 4th, 2011, 11:30 pm

Average Reaction Time: .231
Gender: M
Time Test Is Taken: 10:29 pm
Age 24

are you trying to see if playing video games actually increase reaction timing?

Kenny · **Posted:** March 5th, 2011, 2:55 am

Trekkie, that could be an interesting variable to measure actually. At the moment, I'm just collecting data, like what you have put into the form. Next week I'm going to be making some hypotheses i.e. Girls can react quicker than boys, but boys react better in the evening than girls. Then I'll take the data, put it into various graphs and tables, analyse it and draw a conclusion from what I've found.

King Kulla · **Posted:** March 5th, 2011, 3:12 am

Average Reaction Time: .2672
Gender: M
Time Test Is Taken: 2:09 am
Age 20

Definitely time of day would be a big factor. I just happen to be very alert at night, I doubt the result would be the same if I took it just after I woke up.

Adbot · **Posted:** March 5th, 2011, 3:12 am

CreepyPirate · **Posted:** March 5th, 2011, 3:57 am

Winner! Wheres my prize.

What i especially like about this test is how it shows how quickly i lose interest. By #3 i was bored. I could totally do a 0.2 on every one but I'd need more colours to keep my attention.

Warren · **Posted:** March 6th, 2011, 1:13 pm

1. 0.212
2. 0.249
3. 0.212
4. 0.19
5. 0.313

avg 0.2352
male
3:05 pm
18 y/o

lol 2 and 5 were higher i think because i had my finger like an inch above the mouse and just did a casual click XD Not paying a lot of attention for #5 too not trying to make excuses though just something I noticed... like for #2 it felt like a huge **** up but only 40 milliseconds longer idk how I even noticed that it was a long click XD

Pennstate315 · Runite Member 5-25-10

1. 0.471
2. 0.351
3. 0.241
4. 0.207
5. 0.187
Average: .2914

Male
15
7:05 PM EST

First time I was startled, though it would go to yellow first... But .187 was pretty good

Ranging God · **Posted:** March 7th, 2011, 5:45 pm

Here is mine.

Jay · **Posted:** March 8th, 2011, 2:36 pm

Average Reaction Time: 0.279 seconds
Gender: Male
Time Test Is Taken: 4:30 PM EST
Age: 19

1 Stone Pwn · **Posted:** March 9th, 2011, 8:23 pm

Average time: 0.263
Gender: Male
Time taken: 10:19 PM
Age: 15

Last one was a bit slower because a window popped up right before

Jamie · **Posted:** March 10th, 2011, 9:47 pm

Average Reaction Time: 0.2598
#1: 0.263
#2: 0.255
#3: 0.264
#4: 0.269
#5: 0.248
Gender: Female
Time Test Is Taken: 8:43pm
Age (if you don't feel comfortable, post an age bracket): 18

Tim · **Posted:** March 12th, 2011, 4:41 pm

Average Reaction Time: 0.2722
#1: 0.318
#2: 0.267
#3: 0.25
#4: 0.25
#5: 0.276
Gender: Male
Time Test Is Taken: 4:38PM MST
Age (if you don't feel comfortable, post an age bracket): 17

Killjoy · **Posted:** March 12th, 2011, 5:26 pm

Average Reaction Time:
0.219
0.219
0.203
0.266
0.235
Avg:0.2284

Gender:Male

Time Test Is Taken: 7:25 PM

Age (if you don't feel comfortable, post an age bracket): 16