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Four short drills that time how quickly you respond to what you see: a light change, an open corner, a whistle, a flash at the edge of your vision. Every rep is timed in your browser, so you can see where you’re quick and where you hesitate.
Drill 1 · Simple reaction
The stage turns red: hold. The instant it turns green, press. One signal, one response — your raw reaction time.
Settle in and take a breath before each set.
Times include the lag of your screen and your keyboard or touchscreen, which differs from device to device. Compare your sets on the same device, and take the leaderboard as a friendly race rather than a lab test.
Leaderboard
Each athlete’s best Reaction Index from a full four-drill session, speed and accuracy combined. Times are graded the same way for everyone, but screens and keyboards add their own lag — treat it as a friendly race.
Opted-in athletes only · names anonymized · weeks start Monday (UTC)
Sit square to the screen with your hands ready on the keys, or a thumb over the stage on a phone. Your first few reps are usually slower, so treat the first run of a set as a warm-up.
The stage arms after a random delay of roughly 0.7 to 3.3 seconds, so you can’t time it. On the puck-drop and whistle drills, pressing before the signal counts as a false start — like jumping the puck drop at a faceoff.
Each rep is timed in milliseconds and placed in the drill’s reference bands: elite, good and average. Anything under 100 ms is a guess, not a reaction, and counts as too early. Your best set of each drill, adjusted for accuracy, combines into a Reaction Index out of 100 for the session.
Simple reaction time: one signal, one response. It is the floor the other drills build on. Sleep, warm-up and fatigue all move it, so compare sets taken in similar conditions.
Choice reaction time: four possible signals, four possible responses. Sorting between options takes longer than a single go, so expect these times to sit well above your puck-drop times.
Go / no-go: respond to the puck, hold on the whistle. About one trial in four is a whistle, and holding on those counts as much as speed on the rest.
Peripheral awareness: keep your eyes on the centre and locate a flash out wide. It practises picking up movement without turning your head to it, the way you read a play from the corner of your eye.
The bands are this trainer's own targets for each drill, used to grade your reps and build the Reaction Index. They are a yardstick for tracking yourself, not a published norm.
Cold reps run slow. Do a set, rest, then run it again and go by the second set.
On the peripheral drill, don’t chase the corners. Keep your eyes on the cross and let the flash come to you.
Left index finger on Q and A, right on E and D. Keep your shoulders and wrists relaxed.
Take a minute or two between sets. Tired, rushed sets mostly measure fatigue.
Reaction drills sharpen what you see. Programs build the speed, strength and conditioning to act on it — scheduled around your week.
