Reaction Time Rankings
A reaction time is just a number until you know where it sits. Here are the tiers, from average all the way to the barely-human top. Find your rank, then go beat it.
Web-test scale · updated 2026
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| Tier | Reaction time | Percentile | What it means |
|---|---|---|---|
| Inhuman | under 150 ms | Top 0.1% | Almost certainly anticipation. Nobody reliably reacts this fast. |
| Elite | 150–170 ms | Top 1% | Pro esports and sprint-start territory. |
| Pro | 170–190 ms | Top 5% | Seriously fast. Trained reflexes. |
| Excellent | 190–210 ms | Top 15% | Quicker than the vast majority. |
| Fast | 210–235 ms | Top 30% | Noticeably above average. |
| Above average | 235–273 ms | Top 50% | Better than the typical online result. |
| Average | 273–320 ms | Top 75% | Right in the middle of the pack. |
| Below average | 320–400 ms | Bottom 25% | Often tiredness or device lag, not biology. |
Who sits at the top
The fastest humans alive cluster in a narrow band you can almost touch with practice but never really pass. These are the benchmarks worth measuring yourself against.
| Who | Typical reaction (web scale) |
|---|---|
| Elite esports pro | 175 ms |
| Pro FPS / fighting-game player | 190 ms |
| F1 driver (race start) | 200 ms |
| Skilled gamer | 215 ms |
| Average adult (online test) | 273 ms |
| Casual / occasional | 300 ms |
A note on honesty: these tiers are based on the distribution of millions of online reaction-time results, not a live scoreboard of individual users. We rank you by percentile against that population rather than a public scoreboard, because an open, unverified leaderboard would fill with impossible sub-100 ms scores within a day. Ranking against the real distribution is the fairest, cheat-proof comparison there is. Your best is saved privately in your own browser.
Why there is no public scoreboard
Every unverified reaction leaderboard on the internet has the same top ten: a wall of 8 ms, 1 ms and 0 ms entries. None of them are real. A human simple reaction has a hard floor near 100 ms, which is why World Athletics treats anything under 0.100 s off the starting gun as a false start rather than a superb reaction: below that, you did not react, you guessed. Anything faster on a web page is a macro, a script or a lucky anticipation.
So a public board would rank cheaters, not people. Percentile ranking against the real distribution cannot be gamed the same way, because your rank comes from where your time falls in a population of 81 million-plus recorded results. If you want the full curve behind these tiers, the reaction time percentile table lists it millisecond by millisecond.
How to read your rank honestly
Two things quietly distort almost every rank you will ever see online. The first is device lag: a browser adds 10 to 50 ms of screen and input delay that is not your reflexes, so an uncorrected score ranks you lower than you deserve. Our tests measure that lag and correct for it, which is the whole point of the methodology. The second is age: reaction time peaks in the early twenties and slows every decade after, so a mid-table time at 22 is a strong time at 55. Rank yourself against your own age group on the average reaction time by age page, or let the reaction age test do it for you.
One more: rank on your median, not your best single click. A best-of-fifty is mostly a measure of how many times you were willing to try. Every test here reports the median of five for exactly that reason, and is my reaction time good? will place any number you already have.
Climb the ranks
Every tool sharpens a slightly different reflex. Pick one and push your number down. If you want the number itself to drop rather than just to find a friendlier test, the ranked, evidence-based version is in how to improve your reaction time.