Average Reaction Time by Age — Benchmarks & Percentiles

Q: What is the average human reaction time?

About 250–280 ms for adults on visual stimuli. Elite esports athletes and F1 drivers report 150–200 ms.

Q: Does reaction time decline with age?

Roughly 1–2 ms per year after the mid-twenties, with a larger drop after 60.

Average reaction time by age

What is normal, what is good, and where your own readings sit on the table.

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Age	Typical average	Excellent	Good	Average
18–25	~248 ms	180–210	210–255	255–300
26–35	~254 ms	190–215	215–260	260–305
36–45	~262 ms	200–225	225–270	270–320
46–60	~275 ms	210–235	235–285	285–335
60+	~290 ms	225–250	250–300	300–360

⚠ Example figures — replace with cited research or the AimTests live cohort before this table is used in marketing.

How to read this table

These are simple visual reaction times — stimulus appears, you click. They are not clinical measurements, and a single reading is noisy: warm-up, attention and hardware each move the number by tens of milliseconds. Compare your average of ten against the table, never your best single run.

Why hardware is part of the number

A 60 Hz monitor adds up to ~16 ms before your input is even sampled, and touch screens add 20–60 ms on top. Two people with identical reflexes can differ by 50 ms purely because of their screens. That is the main reason leaderboards without hardware context are close to meaningless.

Frequently asked

What is the average human reaction time?

About 250–280 ms for adults on visual stimuli; esports athletes and F1 drivers report 150–200 ms.

Does reaction time decline with age?

Roughly 1–2 ms per year after the mid-twenties, with larger drops after 60.

Is this table from real data?

Not yet — it is a model until enough AimTests readings exist to publish a real distribution.