What's the average human response time?

[First]

My friend and I are having a discussion about how quickly someone can go from interpreting an event to, say, pushing a button in response to that event. So what I'm wondering is if anyone here can point me to some documentation on the matter that states has been able to prove what the average human response time is. Like 0.2 or 0.3 seconds, for example.

Thanks.

 

[Goosemaster]

what?

 

[Goosemaster]

here you go

http://portal.acm.org/ft_gateway.cfm?id=2517&type=pdf&coll=GUIDE&dl=ACM&CFID=21801727&CFTOKEN=4516286

 

[Goosemaster]

I would assume that this would be affected by enviroment. Reaction times in nuclear familes nad in city dwellers would probably be quicker than in only child familes and suburbanites to name a few varibles.

 

[Kenji4861]

We can scientifically find this out by having people play DDR at different rates.

 

[Xionide]

We can also find out by when I destroy my computer when a jrun error pops up.

 

[pray4mojo]

I remember doing a high school lab on this. Mine was around .25 seconds.

 

[flxnimprtmscl]

42?

 

[Maleficus]

.3-.5 is a fair estimate imo.

 

[Syringer]

http://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/java/reacttime.html

Average of about .22, fastest of .17.

 

[Mo0o]

Originally posted by: Kenji4861
We can scientifically find this out by having people play DDR at different rates.

The ones that are really good at ddr recognize the steps that they are doing because they've played it so much. Doesn't have much to do w/ reaction time, its just being able to do a learned behavior more efficiently and being able to recognize patterns and processing them individually.

 

[First]

Originally posted by: Syringer
http://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/java/reacttime.html

Average of about .22, fastest of .17.

Dude, you are awesome. Thanks.

And thanks for the comments in general, got some pretty good juicy info here.

Though, if anyone has any other data, I'd definitely be interested.

 

[Zee]

Originally posted by: Syringer
http://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/java/reacttime.html

Average of about .22, fastest of .17.

It doesn't work with IE???? :Q what the hell??? these kind of sites still exist???

 

[Allio]

my score from this test.

Horribly addictive thing, I think that was the best I ever got.

 

[Krazy4Real]

My average was .2 seconds.

 

[MAME]

why don't you just drop a ruler and have the other guy grab it in midair. using simple physics, you can tell how long it took to fall the distance.

 

[djheater]

Originally posted by: Allio
my score from this test.

Horribly addictive thing, I think that was the best I ever got.

0.219 for that test.

 

[dullard]

Originally posted by: MAME
why don't you just drop a ruler and have the other guy grab it in midair. using simple physics, you can tell how long it took to fall the distance.

That is what I always did.

 

[MAME]

Originally posted by: djheater

Originally posted by: Allio
my score from this test.

Horribly addictive thing, I think that was the best I ever got.

0.219 for that test.

0.212....OWNED!!!!!!

 

[Kelemvor]

Evan, put a link to this test in the first post and add the dsecription line to the topic so people cna come test their own reactions...

I got:
.206
.177
.229
.225
.159

Average .199
199.jpg

Woo, scratch that...

.191
.195
.184
.185
.184

Average .187
187.jpg

 

[bunker]

.209
.211
.197
.19
.187

avg .198

 

[Allio]

Mm, you're nothing till you get 0.043 or less

A friend of mine got 0.003 on the last dot...

 

[Lithium381]

Originally posted by: Allio
Mm, you're nothing till you get 0.043 or less

A friend of mine got 0.003 on the last dot...

i got .07 on the last dot not too bad otherwise they were all around .225

 

[BD2003]

Last I heard, it was about 150ms, which seems to jive well with the other numbers here.

 

[nycxandy]

Wow, I'm horrible... 0.3 average on the washington.edu test and 0.2 average on the red dot test.