14 Minute Timer

Press Start to count down 14 minutes.

This free 14 minute timer counts down 14 minutes with a shrinking red disc you can read at a glance. 14 minutes is 840 seconds (eight hundred and forty seconds). It fits a group activity in class or a single section of a practice exam.

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What a 14 minute timer is good for

Fourteen minutes is a practical slot for structured group work. It gives a team time to read a task, discuss it and agree an answer, and teachers often pair it with a one minute warning before groups report back.

Group activities

Set fourteen minutes for a group task and project the timer. The visible disc reduces how often groups ask how long is left.

An exam section

Some practice papers have short sections designed to take about fourteen minutes. Timing each one shows where you are spending too long.

A fourteen minute tidy

Two people tidying for fourteen minutes each clears a surprising amount of a shared space.

Reading aloud

Reading a picture book aloud with discussion usually takes ten to fifteen minutes.

To pace yourself, glance at the disc rather than the numbers. With the 14 minute timer running, half the colour has gone after 7 minutes, and when only a quarter is left you have 3 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 14 minutes are for.

How to use the 14 minute timer

  1. It is ready

    The dial is already set to 14 minutes. To change it, drag the disc, tap a preset or open Custom.

  2. Press Start

    Or press the Space bar. The red disc shrinks back towards 12 o’clock as the time runs down.

  3. Watch the disc

    Read the time left at a glance, or open fullscreen for a big dial that fills the screen.

  4. Time’s up

    Your alarm plays until you press Stop. Press Reset or R to run the same time again.

14 minutes in other units

14 minutes equals
Seconds840
Minutes14
Hours0.2333
Fraction of a day7/720

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.

Frequently asked questions

There are 840 seconds in 14 minutes. That is 0.2333 of an hour, or eight hundred and forty seconds written out.

A structured group task with time to report back, one section of a practice exam, a shared clean-up, or reading a picture book aloud with discussion.

Yes. The 14 minute countdown is anchored to your device clock rather than counted frame by frame, so it stays accurate in a background tab and the alarm still fires when the 14 minutes are up.

No. The 14 minute timer runs in your browser on phone, tablet and desktop. It is free, and there is no account, app or download.

Yes. Press the fullscreen button or the F key. The dial fills the screen, so the remaining part of the 14 minutes is readable from the back of the room.

Yes, once this page has loaded. Nothing is sent over the network while the 14 minutes count down, so a dropped connection will not stop the timer.

Keep the disc in view: the remaining colour is the warning. You can also say “when the disc is a thin slice, start wrapping up”, which works well with groups.

When the 14 minutes are up the disc is empty, the screen shows Time’s up! and your alarm plays until you press Stop. It stops by itself after five minutes.

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