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05:00

Space starts or pauses, R resets, F goes fullscreen.

No. 001 · 5 MINUTE TIMER

5 minute timer — a five-minute countdown with alarm

  • 01 Five minutes, one click
  • 02 Projector-friendly fullscreen
  • 03 Alarm at zero

A five-minute countdown with large digits, a progress bar and an alarm at zero. Five minutes is the go-to length for short breaks, classroom transitions, quick tidy-ups and short focused tasks.

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§ 01

Breaks and transitions

Five minutes is long enough for a real pause and short enough to stay on schedule. In meetings and classes, a visible five-minute countdown tells everyone exactly when to be back, which ends the drift that comes with 'take five'.

§ 02

Committing to just five minutes on a task is a common way past procrastination: the bar to start is low, and once the timer ends it is often easier to keep going.

Getting started on something you are avoiding

Committing to just five minutes on a task is a common way past procrastination: the bar to start is low, and once the timer ends it is often easier to keep going. If you do, press +1 min a few times or switch to the 15 or 25 minute timers.

§ 03

Kitchen and household jobs

Plenty of everyday jobs fit inside five minutes, from soft-boiling eggs to a quick room reset. The alarm is loud enough to hear from the next room with the volume up.

Procedure

Three moves to peak output

  1. 01

    Press Start

    The timer is set to 5:00. Press Start or the space bar.

  2. 02

    Go fullscreen for a group

    Press F or Fullscreen so the countdown fills a projector or TV.

  3. 03

    Add time if the task runs over

    Press +1 min while it runs — no need to restart.

Inquiries

Questions worth asking

Q.01 Can I add time while the timer is running?
Yes. Press +1 min to extend the countdown or −1 min to shorten it without stopping.
Q.02 Why does the screen change color?
The timer is a light as well as a clock. It starts as cool 6500K daylight and warms through the color temperatures of a sunset — 4000K, 3000K, 2200K — to an ember red at zero, so you can tell roughly how much time is left from across a room without reading the digits. Turn off Color light for a plain dark timer.
Q.03 Does the timer keep running if I switch tabs?
Yes. The countdown is calculated from the clock rather than counted tick by tick, so it finishes on time even when the browser slows down a background tab. The alarm plays when it ends, as long as the tab is still open and the sound toggle is on.
Q.04 Will my screen turn off while the timer runs?
On browsers that support the Screen Wake Lock API (Chrome, Edge and recent Safari), the timer asks the device to keep the screen on while it runs, and releases that request when you pause or the countdown ends.
Cross-reference

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