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The change in adults is small. In a study of ",{"t":169,"v":170},"num","1,469",{"t":166,"v":172}," adults aged ",{"t":169,"v":174},"18",{"t":166,"v":176}," to ",{"t":169,"v":178},"65",{"t":166,"v":180},", simple reaction time grew by about ",{"t":169,"v":182},"0.6",{"t":166,"v":184}," ms per year of age",{"t":186,"id":187,"n":188},"cite","woods-2015",1,{"t":166,"v":190},", so a sixty-year-old in that study was typically only a couple of hundredths of a second slower than a twenty-year-old.",[192,302,365,454,501],{"role":193,"section":194},"section",{"heading":195,"blocks":196},"Age by age, in one table",[197,293],{"type":198,"caption":199,"head":202,"rows":212},"table",[200],{"t":166,"v":201},"What the studies on this page found at each stage of life",[203,206,209],[204],{"t":166,"v":205},"Age",[207],{"t":166,"v":208},"What happens",[210],{"t":166,"v":211},"Study",[213,233,245,259,280],[214,220,228],[215,217,218],{"t":169,"v":216},"7",{"t":166,"v":176},{"t":169,"v":219},"20",[221,223,224,226],{"t":166,"v":222},"Reaction time shortens year by year; the biggest step is between ",{"t":169,"v":216},{"t":166,"v":225}," and ",{"t":169,"v":227},"8",[229,231],{"t":169,"v":230},"550",{"t":166,"v":232}," girls and young women",[234,239,242],[235,237],{"t":166,"v":236},"About ",{"t":169,"v":238},"17",[240],{"t":166,"v":241},"Quickest simple reactions to a light and a sound",[243,244],{"t":169,"v":230},{"t":166,"v":232},[246,250,255],[247,248,249],{"t":169,"v":174},{"t":166,"v":176},{"t":169,"v":178},[251,252,253],{"t":166,"v":236},{"t":169,"v":182},{"t":166,"v":254}," ms slower per year",[256,257],{"t":169,"v":170},{"t":166,"v":258}," adults",[260,266,276],[261,263,264],{"t":166,"v":262},"From about ",{"t":169,"v":219},{"t":166,"v":265}," into old age",[267,268,270,272,274],{"t":166,"v":236},{"t":169,"v":269},"0.5",{"t":166,"v":271}," ms slower per year for a simple reaction, ",{"t":169,"v":273},"1.6",{"t":166,"v":275}," ms for one with a choice",[277,279],{"t":169,"v":278},"1,265",{"t":166,"v":258},[281,286,289],[282,284],{"t":166,"v":283},"Up to about ",{"t":169,"v":285},"50",[287],{"t":166,"v":288},"Little slowing of a simple reaction; reactions with a choice slow throughout",[290,292],{"t":169,"v":291},"7,130",{"t":166,"v":258},{"type":294,"text":295},"paragraph",[296,298,300],{"t":166,"v":297},"Each study used its own equipment and its own people, so the rows describe the shape of the change rather than one set of numbers to compare yourself with. The average for adults that our test uses is ",{"t":169,"v":299},"230.8",{"t":166,"v":301}," ms, from the study in the third row.",{"role":193,"section":303},{"heading":304,"blocks":305},"Children and teenagers",[306,335,358],{"type":294,"text":307},[308,310,312,314,315,317,318,319,320,322,323,325,326,327,328,330,333],{"t":166,"v":309},"Young children react slowly, and they improve fast. A study published in ",{"t":169,"v":311},"2014",{"t":166,"v":313}," tested ",{"t":169,"v":230},{"t":166,"v":316}," girls and young women aged ",{"t":169,"v":216},{"t":166,"v":176},{"t":169,"v":219},{"t":166,"v":321}," on a computer, with a light and a sound to answer. Reaction times improved through childhood and levelled off at about ",{"t":169,"v":238},{"t":166,"v":324},", with the largest single jump between the ages of ",{"t":169,"v":216},{"t":166,"v":225},{"t":169,"v":227},{"t":166,"v":329},". Reactions that needed a choice were quickest about a year earlier",{"t":186,"id":331,"n":332},"jaworski-2014",2,{"t":166,"v":334},".",{"type":294,"text":336},[337,339,341,343,345,346,348,350,352,354,357],{"t":166,"v":338},"A much larger study online points the same way. It drew on ",{"t":169,"v":340},"10,394",{"t":166,"v":342}," visitors to a research website, aged ",{"t":169,"v":344},"10",{"t":166,"v":176},{"t":169,"v":347},"69",{"t":166,"v":349},", and on the samples behind two standard adult test batteries. Some abilities, the authors found, peak and begin to decline around the end of secondary school; working memory peaked later, at around ",{"t":169,"v":351},"30",{"t":166,"v":353},", and the speed of simple processing earlier than that",{"t":186,"id":355,"n":356},"hartshorne-2015",3,{"t":166,"v":334},{"type":294,"text":359},[360,362,363],{"t":166,"v":361},"For a child, then, a result that is slower than an adult's is simply normal. The study of adults that our test compares you with began at age ",{"t":169,"v":174},{"t":166,"v":364},", so a child's result on our test is best compared with the same child's results over time.",{"role":193,"section":366},{"heading":367,"blocks":368},"Adults: a small, steady change",[369,399,410,436],{"type":294,"text":370},[371,373,375,377,378,380,381,382,383,385,386,388,389,391,393,395,397],{"t":166,"v":372},"The largest careful study of adults was published in ",{"t":169,"v":374},"2015",{"t":166,"v":376},". It tested ",{"t":169,"v":170},{"t":166,"v":379}," volunteers aged ",{"t":169,"v":174},{"t":166,"v":176},{"t":169,"v":178},{"t":166,"v":384}," with a calibrated screen and mouse. Their simple reaction time grew by about ",{"t":169,"v":182},{"t":166,"v":387}," ms with each year of age, and it did not differ by sex or by education",{"t":186,"id":187,"n":188},{"t":166,"v":390},". A second experiment in the same paper, with ",{"t":169,"v":392},"189",{"t":166,"v":394}," people aged up to ",{"t":169,"v":396},"82",{"t":166,"v":398},", found the same rise with age.",{"type":294,"text":400},[401,403,405,407,408],{"t":166,"v":402},"The authors also split each reaction into two parts. The time to notice the target, which averaged ",{"t":169,"v":404},"131",{"t":166,"v":406}," ms, did not change with age; the slowing came mainly from starting the movement",{"t":186,"id":187,"n":188},{"t":166,"v":409},". Older adults in that study saw the signal as quickly as younger ones and were a little slower to press.",{"type":294,"text":411},[412,414,415,416,417,418,420,422,423,425,426,428,429,431,434],{"t":166,"v":413},"A long study in Baltimore followed ",{"t":169,"v":278},{"t":166,"v":379},{"t":169,"v":238},{"t":166,"v":176},{"t":169,"v":419},"96",{"t":166,"v":421},", some of them for years. From about age ",{"t":169,"v":219},{"t":166,"v":424},", a simple reaction to a sound slowed by about ",{"t":169,"v":269},{"t":166,"v":427}," ms a year, and a reaction in which people had to decide whether to press at all slowed by about ",{"t":169,"v":273},{"t":166,"v":430}," ms a year",{"t":186,"id":432,"n":433},"fozard-1994",4,{"t":166,"v":435},". The more a task asks you to decide, the more age shows.",{"type":294,"text":437},[438,440,441,443,444,446,448,450,453],{"t":166,"v":439},"A survey of ",{"t":169,"v":291},{"t":166,"v":442}," adults in the United Kingdom found the same difference between kinds of task: simple reaction time changed little until around ",{"t":169,"v":285},{"t":166,"v":445},", while reactions with ",{"t":169,"v":447},"4",{"t":166,"v":449}," choices slowed across the whole adult age range",{"t":186,"id":451,"n":452},"der-2006",5,{"t":166,"v":334},{"role":193,"section":455},{"heading":456,"blocks":457},"Why the change is smaller than people think",[458,466,476,494],{"type":294,"text":459},[460,462,464],{"t":166,"v":461},"A slowing of about half a thousandth of a second a year adds up to only a couple of hundredths over forty years. That is smaller than the difference between two ordinary people of the same age, and smaller than the delay a phone can add. In the adult study above, people of the same age were spread around the average by about ",{"t":169,"v":463},"26.8",{"t":166,"v":465}," ms.",{"type":294,"text":467},[468,470,472,474,475],{"t":166,"v":469},"Speed is also not new. The authors of the adult study point out that the very first reaction time measurements, made by Francis Galton in the nineteenth century, recorded simple visual reactions below ",{"t":169,"v":471},"190",{"t":166,"v":473}," ms in young people. Measured with equipment as precise as Galton's, people today are just as fast",{"t":186,"id":187,"n":188},{"t":166,"v":334},{"type":294,"text":477},[478,480,482,484,485,486,488,490,493],{"t":166,"v":479},"Large online samples show the same pattern across the whole adult range. One web-based study gathered simple visual reaction times from ",{"t":169,"v":481},"75,666",{"t":166,"v":483}," people aged ",{"t":169,"v":174},{"t":166,"v":176},{"t":169,"v":487},"85",{"t":166,"v":489}," and studied how age, education and other factors went with them",{"t":186,"id":491,"n":492},"talboom-2021",6,{"t":166,"v":334},{"type":294,"text":495},[496,498,499],{"t":166,"v":497},"Most of these studies compare people of different ages, each measured once, which could mix up age with the times people grew up in. The Baltimore study also tested the same people again over eight years. It saw the same slowing within each person, and answers that varied more from one try to the next as people got older",{"t":186,"id":432,"n":433},{"t":166,"v":500},". So the change is real, and it is gradual.",{"role":193,"section":502},{"heading":503,"blocks":504},"What this means for your own result",[505,526,530],{"type":506,"items":507},"list",[508,517,520,523],[509,511,512,513,515],{"t":166,"v":510},"If you are between about ",{"t":169,"v":219},{"t":166,"v":225},{"t":169,"v":514},"60",{"t":166,"v":516},", your age changes your expected time by only a few hundredths of a second: the device you use and how rested you are matter as much.",[518],{"t":166,"v":519},"If you are older, expect to be a little slower on tests with a choice, such as a colour word test, than on a plain reaction test.",[521],{"t":166,"v":522},"If you are a child or a teenager, your times will usually improve as you grow, whether or not you practise.",[524],{"t":166,"v":525},"Whatever your age, compare your result with your own earlier results on the same device: that is the change you can trust.",{"type":294,"text":527},[528],{"t":166,"v":529},"A reaction test in a browser measures how fast you answered on that day and that device. It is for curiosity and self-reflection, and a slower time than someone else's says nothing about your health.",{"type":294,"text":531},[532,534,539],{"t":166,"v":533},"For the limits of human speed at any age, see ",{"t":535,"v":536,"to":537,"key":538},"link","what a really good reaction time is","\u002Ffacts\u002Fhuman-reaction-time","facts-human-reaction-time",{"t":166,"v":334},[541,544,549,552],{"key":12,"path":13,"title":542,"description":543},"Reaction time test","Free reaction time test: tap or click when the screen turns green. Your middle time is set beside a published study of adults. No sign-up, no email.",{"key":545,"path":546,"title":547,"description":548},"norms-reaction-time","\u002Faverage-reaction-time","Average reaction time","The average reaction time of adults in a published study, how far people spread around it, and how much delay your devices add to a result.",{"key":538,"path":537,"title":550,"description":551},"What is a really good reaction time?","What is a really good reaction time? What studies of adults, sprinters and racing drivers found, and why a phone or browser makes your time look slower.",{"key":553,"path":554,"title":555,"description":556},"guide-improve-reaction","\u002Fguides\u002Fimprove-reaction-time","How to improve reaction time","How to improve reaction time in a fair way: set up the test well, practise short and often, stop guessing the signal, and know what practice cannot change.",[558,562,564],{"key":559,"path":560,"name":561},"home","\u002F","What would you like to test?",{"key":144,"path":145,"name":563},"Facts",{"key":156,"path":565,"name":163},"\u002Ffacts\u002Faverage-reaction-time-by-age",[567,580,592,602,613,624],{"n":188,"id":187,"kind":568,"authors":569,"year":570,"title":571,"venue":572,"doi":573,"url":574,"participants":170,"population":575,"notes":576},"sample","Woods, D. L., Wyma, J. M., Yund, E. W., Herron, T. J., & Reed, B.",2015,"Factors influencing the latency of simple reaction time","Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 9, 131","10.3389\u002Ffnhum.2015.00131","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.frontiersin.org\u002Fjournals\u002Fhuman-neuroscience\u002Farticles\u002F10.3389\u002Ffnhum.2015.00131\u002Ffull","Community volunteers in Rotorua, New Zealand, aged 18 to 65 (mean age 45.8, 40% men)",[577],{"date":578,"url":574,"quote":579},"2026-10-01","Abstract: \"Experiment 1 examined a community sample of 1469 subjects ranging in age from 18 to 65. Mean SRT latencies were short (231, 213 ms when corrected for hardware delays) and increased significantly with age (0.55 ms\u002Fyear)\". Table 2, column Experiment 1: \"N 1469\", \"SRT 230.8\", \"SRT SD 26.8\".",{"n":332,"id":331,"kind":581,"authors":582,"year":583,"title":584,"venue":585,"doi":586,"url":587,"participants":230,"population":588,"notes":589},"source","Jaworski, J., Kosiba, G., & Madejski, E.",2014,"An assessment of reaction time development in females using polynomial regression analysis","Human Movement, 15(2), 80–85","10.2478\u002Fhumo-2014-0007","https:\u002F\u002Fhummov.awf.wroc.pl\u002FAn-assessment-of-reaction-time-development-in-females-using-polynomial-regression,183300,0,2.html","Girls and young women aged 7 to 20 in Poland",[590],{"date":159,"url":587,"quote":591},"Abstract: \"The study involved 550 females between the ages of 7 and 20 years. Participants completed a computer test measuring simple reaction times to visual and auditory stimuli and choice reaction time during the ontogenetic developmental period.\" \"Best reaction times to visual and auditory stimuli were approximately at the age of 17 years. In turn, quickest choice reaction time was approximately one year earlier in life. The most dynamic increase in the results of both simple reaction times was between the age of 7 and 8 years\"",{"n":356,"id":355,"kind":581,"authors":593,"year":570,"title":594,"venue":595,"doi":596,"url":597,"population":598,"notes":599},"Hartshorne, J. K., & Germine, L. T.","When does cognitive functioning peak? The asynchronous rise and fall of different cognitive abilities across the life span","Psychological Science, 26(4), 433–443","10.1177\u002F0956797614567339","https:\u002F\u002Fpmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\u002Farticles\u002FPMC4441622\u002F","Visitors to TestMyBrain.org aged 10 to 69, and the norming samples of two adult test batteries",[600],{"date":159,"url":597,"quote":601},"Abstract: \"some abilities peak and begin to decline around high school graduation; some abilities plateau in early adulthood, beginning to decline in the 30s; still others do not peak until the 40s or later.\" Experiment 2: \"Participants in Experiment 2 (N=10,394, 10–69 years-old) were visitors to TestMyBrain.org\" Results: \"the two working memory tasks peaked at around 30 years, significantly later than processing speed (ps\u003C.01) and significantly earlier than vocabulary (ps\u003C.0001)\" Experiment 1: \"The WAIS-III sample consisted of 2,450 healthy, cognitively-unimpaired Americans\"",{"n":433,"id":432,"kind":581,"authors":603,"year":604,"title":605,"venue":606,"doi":607,"url":608,"participants":278,"population":609,"notes":610},"Fozard, J. L., Vercruyssen, M., Reynolds, S. L., Hancock, P. A., & Quilter, R. E.",1994,"Age differences and changes in reaction time: The Baltimore Longitudinal Study of Aging","Journal of Gerontology, 49(4), P179–P189","10.1093\u002Fgeronj\u002F49.4.p179","https:\u002F\u002Fpubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\u002F8014399\u002F","Community volunteers in Baltimore aged 17 to 96",[611],{"date":159,"url":608,"quote":612},"Abstract: \"This study analyzed auditory reaction time (RT) data from 1,265 community-dwelling volunteers (833 males and 432 females) who ranged in age from 17 to 96.\" \"Repeated testing within participants (longitudinal analyses) over eight years showed consistent slowing and increased variability with age.\" \"Beginning at about age 20, RTs increased at a rate of approximately 0.5 msec\u002Fyr for SRT and 1.6 msec\u002Fyr for DRT.\"",{"n":452,"id":451,"kind":581,"authors":614,"year":615,"title":616,"venue":617,"doi":618,"url":619,"participants":291,"population":620,"notes":621},"Der, G., & Deary, I. J.",2006,"Age and sex differences in reaction time in adulthood: Results from the United Kingdom Health and Lifestyle Survey","Psychology and Aging, 21(1), 62–73","10.1037\u002F0882-7974.21.1.62","https:\u002F\u002Fpubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\u002F16594792\u002F","Adults in the United Kingdom Health and Lifestyle Survey",[622],{"date":159,"url":619,"quote":623},"Abstract: \"The authors reanalyzed data for 7,130 adult participants in the United Kingdom Health and Lifestyle Survey\" \"The authors modeled the age differences in simple and 4-choice reaction time means and variabilities\" \"Simple RT shows little slowing until around 50, whereas choice RT slows throughout the adult age range.\"",{"n":492,"id":491,"kind":581,"authors":625,"year":626,"title":627,"venue":628,"doi":629,"url":630,"participants":481,"population":631,"notes":632},"Talboom, J. S., De Both, M. D., Naymik, M. A., et al.",2021,"Two separate, large cohorts reveal potential modifiers of age-associated variation in visual reaction time performance","npj Aging and Mechanisms of Disease, 7, 14","10.1038\u002Fs41514-021-00067-6","https:\u002F\u002Fpubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\u002F34210964\u002F","Visitors to a web-based reaction test (MindCrowd) aged 18 to 85",[633],{"date":159,"url":630,"quote":634},"Abstract: \"MindCrowd is a cross-sectional web-based assessment of simple visual (sv) reaction time (RT) and paired-associate learning (PAL).\" \"(ntotal = 75,666, nwomen = 47,700, nmen = 27,966; ages 18-85 years old, mean (M)Age = 46.54, standard deviation (SD)Age = 18.40)\"",{"heading":636,"items":637},"Questions",[638,650,666,676],{"q":639,"a":640},"At what age is reaction time fastest?",[641],{"type":294,"text":642},[643,645,646,648,649],{"t":166,"v":644},"In the late teens and early twenties. In a study of girls and young women, simple reactions were quickest at about ",{"t":169,"v":238},{"t":166,"v":647},", and adult studies find the slowing starts from about ",{"t":169,"v":219},{"t":166,"v":334},{"q":651,"a":652},"How much slower does reaction time get each year?",[653],{"type":294,"text":654},[655,657,658,660,661,663,664],{"t":166,"v":656},"Very little. Two large studies found about ",{"t":169,"v":182},{"t":166,"v":659}," ms and ",{"t":169,"v":269},{"t":166,"v":662}," ms per year for a simple reaction. Reactions that need a decision slow more, about ",{"t":169,"v":273},{"t":166,"v":665}," ms a year in one long study.",{"q":667,"a":668},"What is a normal reaction time for a teenager?",[669],{"type":294,"text":670},[671,673,674],{"t":166,"v":672},"Close to an adult's. Reaction times improve quickly through childhood and are near their best by the late teens. 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