10 Minute Timer
Press Start to count down 10 minutes.
What a 10 minute timer is good for
Ten minutes is the most searched timer of all, and it earns that place. It is long enough to make visible progress on almost anything and short enough that children and adults will agree to it without a fight.
Clean-up time
Teachers and parents set ten minutes for tidying a classroom or bedroom. When everyone can see the colour shrinking, the last minute is usually the busiest.
Meditation
Ten minutes is the most common length for a daily mindfulness practice and the default session in many meditation apps.
Reading sprints
Ten minutes of uninterrupted reading a day adds up to more than 60 hours a year. Use the timer to make it a habit.
Presentation slots
Conference lightning talks, school presentations and pitch rounds are often given ten minutes. Rehearse with the disc in view so you finish on time.
A real break
A ten minute break away from the screen between long work sessions helps attention recover.
To pace yourself, glance at the disc rather than the numbers. With the 10 minute timer running, half the colour has gone after 5 minutes, and when only a quarter is left you have 2 minutes 30 seconds to wrap up. Open fullscreen if the timer needs to be read across a room, and add a label so everyone knows what the 10 minutes are for.
How to use the 10 minute timer
It is ready
The dial is already set to 10 minutes. To change it, drag the disc, tap a preset or open Custom.
Press Start
Or press the Space bar. The red disc shrinks back towards 12 o’clock as the time runs down.
Watch the disc
Read the time left at a glance, or open fullscreen for a big dial that fills the screen.
Time’s up
Your alarm plays until you press Stop. Press Reset or R to run the same time again.
10 minutes in other units
| Seconds | 600 |
|---|---|
| Minutes | 10 |
| Hours | 0.1667 |
| Fraction of a day | 1/144 |
Why use this timer
Why a visual timer helps
A shrinking disc turns time into something you can see. You read how much is left at a glance, without doing sums on a clock, and an invisible deadline feels less stressful when you can watch it approach. That is why visual timers are a staple in classrooms and are widely used by people with ADHD and autistic children and adults. Read our guide to using a visual timer, how it helps with ADHD time blindness, classroom transitions and autism.
Why this timer is accurate
The countdown is anchored to your device clock rather than counted in animation frames. It does not drift if you switch tabs or your screen sleeps: it keeps running in the background and still sounds the alarm on time. When you come back, the disc jumps straight to the correct position.