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A fast and effective test says it is within average. But there are ways to improve your performance.
Throughout our lives, the reaction time tends to decrease, but “some people tend to be faster than others, even before the effects of aging make themselves feel,” says Simon Cox, a teacher of brain and cognitive aging.
There is a way to get an idea of your home reaction time in brief minutes, but know first that there are ways to improve your performance – there are certain activities that encourage this field and allow you to react faster.
For example, Track a fitness class on television or tablet “improves the ability to perceive a stimulus and respond with significant coordinated movements,” explains biomechanics teacher Matthew Pain.
To practice sport, play an instrument or keep your brain activePlaying board games, for example, can help maintain a good reaction time at a more advanced age, highlights it as well.
To measure it, you can get an idea through a website that calculates you through one within seconds. But if you want to put this test virtually, there is a fun way to do it, known as “Trying the ruler”.
To do so, you just need a Chair, a table, a ruler and a “helper”.
- Sit in a chair and rest your arm on a table so that the wrist hangs on the edge. Keep your thumb up.
- Ask your helper to hold a ruler vertically above your hand, with number 0 beating the thumb.
- Then ask your helper to drop the ruler without notice and grasp it with the thumb and the index forth as soon as possible.
- The number of the ruler where his two fingers grab says his reaction time.
Excellent performance would be to catch the ruler at a distance of less than 7.5 cm. If you got this result, it’s lightning. Between 7.5 and 15.9 cm continues to be above normal, and the average is between 15.9 and 20.4 cm.
Below is any result of any result above 20.4 cm. If you only caught the ruler at 28 centimeters, pondere delivering the driving license – it’s a true disaster.
