How to play Split Second

Split Second tests your internal clock. A timer starts, then disappears after one second. Your job is to tap STOP at exactly the target time, such as 7.00 seconds. Everyone thinks they are good at this until they try.

How a day works

You get five rounds, each with a different target time (for example 7.00 s, then 12.50 s, then 3.33 s). Everyone gets the same five targets that day.
Press Start. A timer counts for one second, then vanishes and the screen shows only dots.
Tap STOP (or press the space bar) when you think the target time has passed.
You see how early or late you were, and where you stopped on the watch face.
After five rounds you get your total error, a rating, and your place on the leaderboard.

Scoring

Your score for a round is how far you were from the target, in seconds. Early and late count the same.
Your total error is the five rounds added together. Lower is better. Under half a second in total is superb.
Each round is capped at 3 seconds of error, so one terrible round can’t ruin your whole day.
Each round gets a colour: green (within 0.1 s), yellow (within 0.3 s), orange (within 0.75 s) and red (further than that).

Fair play

It’s a test of feel, so try not to count out loud or tap along to a beat. Whatever works for you in your head is fine.
If you leave the page or switch tabs in the middle of a round, that round restarts, because browsers pause timers in hidden tabs. You get two restarts a day. After that, the round counts as missed.
If you close or refresh the page mid-round, that round counts as missed, so a bad round can’t be redone.
You get one run per day. Practice rounds are unlimited and never count.

Leaderboard and accounts

You can play without an account, and your score still counts toward the daily percentile. To appear on the leaderboard, sign in or create a free Figure Fruit account. The same account works in every Figure Fruit game. The daily puzzle changes at midnight US Eastern time.

Tips

Longer targets are not always harder. Many people rush the long ones and drift the short ones.
Your first few practice rounds will probably be worse than you expect. Use them to calibrate before the real thing.
Stay relaxed. Most people stop early when they are nervous.

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