1 Minute Timer
One minute, counted down from sixty seconds, with a tone at zero. Press start and leave it. This is the shortest length most people bother to time, and the one they reach for most.
1:00
Nothing plays until you press start.
Sixty seconds
A minute is 60 seconds and one sixtieth of an hour, so sixty runs of this timer fill exactly one hour – 3,600 seconds. That is the whole of the arithmetic, and it is why a minute is the unit everything else on this site is built out of.
What a minute is actually used for
- A minute’s silence, which is the reason a lot of people need a clock they can trust in a room full of people.
- One minute per question, in a quiz round or a practice paper.
- One minute per speaker, for a round of introductions or a show of hands.
- A held position – a plank, a wall sit, a stretch – where the point is that you do not stop early.
- The rest between sets, when the rest is the part people cut short.
If a minute is the wrong length
Half of it is the 30 second timer, the length used for handwashing and for one quadrant of a toothbrush. One and a half is the 90 second timer. Double it and you have the 2 minute timer, which is a full brush, four quadrants of thirty seconds. Everything else is listed on the timer page.
Accuracy
The clock runs against your system clock, not against a counter that a sleeping tab can stall, so a backgrounded tab still lands on zero at the right moment. The sound is the weak part: a phone that puts itself to sleep may never play it. Do not lean on this for anything where missing the alarm matters – medication, an exam, a step in cooking that burns.