1 Minute Timer
A minute is considerably longer than people expect, which is the whole reason to time one rather than count it in your head. The countdown above is loaded with 1:00 and starts the moment you press “Start”.
Sixty seconds is also the shortest interval where a timer genuinely beats guessing — much below it and you may as well count, much above it and you would want a clock anyway.
Set Timer
Things that really are one minute
In training: a plank, a wall sit, a dead hang, a round of skipping, and — probably most often of all — the rest between sets, which is where people cheat by the largest margin. Left to instinct, a ninety-second rest becomes forty seconds when you are keen and three minutes when you are checking your phone.
Elsewhere: one minute per half of your mouth if you are brushing for a full two, a mouthwash rinse, a plate of something in the microwave, a pan getting properly hot before anything touches it, and the ruthless one-minute answer if you are rehearsing for an interview.
Why watching a minute is different from feeling one
Your sense of a minute is not stable. Under physical effort it stretches — forty seconds into a plank, a minute feels like it has been and gone. Waiting for something dull, it shrinks, and you will swear more time has passed than has. That is ordinary human experience rather than anything mysterious, and it is exactly why an external countdown is worth the two seconds it takes to start.
Running several rounds back to back
For repeated intervals, let it hit zero, press “Reset”, and press “Start” again. Reset returns the display to whatever the fields above say, and those still hold one minute, so every round is identical without retyping anything.
If you are alternating a minute of work with a minute of rest, use the tone dropdown and the “Test” button first to pick something you will hear over music or from the other side of a room.