10 minute timer
Ten minutes is a sixth of an hour — enough for a short workout, a quick nap or a focused tidy-up.
Ready
Ends 10 minutes after you press Start.
Keyboard: Space start or pause, R reset, F full screen.
10 minutes in other units
- Seconds
- 600
- Share of an hour
- 16.7%
- 1/6 of an hour
- On the timer
- 10:00
- Back to back
- 144 a day
- fit exactly into 24 hours
What a 10 minute timer is good for
- Power naps. Short naps of about 10 to 20 minutes are often suggested for a boost without grogginess.
- Pasta. Many dried pastas are ready in about ten minutes.
- A ten-minute tidy. Pick one room and clear what you can before the alarm.
- Daily practice. Ten minutes of music or language practice a day adds up to more than an hour a week.
Other timers
About this timer
The countdown runs against your device's clock from the moment you press Start, so it stays accurate in a background tab. The line under the digits shows the local time it will end. Pick one of ten alarm sounds, all generated in your browser (hear them on the countdown sounds page), and use full screen to read the time from across a room. Need a different length? Set a custom timer.
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Frequently asked questions
How do I set a timer for 10 minutes?
This page is already set to 10 minutes. Press Start, or the Space bar, and the countdown begins; when it reaches zero, the alarm sounds and the page shows Time's up. Pause stops the clock and Reset takes it back to 10 minutes.
How many seconds are in 10 minutes?
600 seconds, or 1/6 of an hour.
What can I do in 10 minutes?
Plenty: a short body-weight workout, a walk around the block, a quick tidy, a pot of pasta or a few pages of reading. Small, timed blocks are easier to start than open-ended tasks.
Will the alarm go off if I switch tabs?
In most desktop browsers, yes. The countdown is worked out from the real clock, and the alarm is scheduled with the browser's sound engine when you press Start, so it stays on time in a background tab. Phones can pause web pages when the screen locks, so keep the screen on — the timer asks the browser to do that where it can — and turn the volume up.