How to use the online timer
Minute-based timers cover the bulk of everyday timing needs — cooking, focused work blocks, exercise sessions, and most of the durations people reach for a timer to track in the first place. It's the natural unit for anything from a couple of minutes up to a few hours, striking a practical balance between the second-level precision that short bursts need and the broader scale that very long tasks call for.
Most of the timers across this site, from a five-minute breathing exercise to a ninety-minute deep work block, are set in minutes because that's the resolution that actually matches how these tasks are planned and thought about — nobody plans a study session in seconds, and few plan a quick tea steep in hours.
Choose a whole number of minutes, or a couple of minutes and seconds together if the task needs that extra bit of precision, and let the countdown run in the background while you get on with whatever the timer's tracking.
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