What a 1 minute timer is for
Sixty seconds is long enough to matter and short enough that you will watch the whole thing. It is a plank hold, a rest between sets, a breathing exercise, or the pause you give a room before carrying on.
What people set it for
- Holding a plank or a wall sit to the second
- Rest between sets without guessing
- A single round of box breathing
- Giving a class or meeting sixty seconds to think
How this timer behaves
The countdown is stored as the moment it should finish, not as a number being decremented, so switching tabs or minimising the window cannot make it run late, and pausing and resuming is exact. Through the final minute the readout and its ring turn red and pulse, giving you a warning before the alert rather than only at it.
It does not start on its own. The alarm is generated in your browser, and browsers keep audio silent until you interact with the page — so a timer that started by itself would be a timer that finished in silence. One tap on start is what makes the sound work.