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Timing a school sports day

A sports day rarely comes apart over the sport. It comes apart over the paper: who held which stopwatch, whose time belongs to whom, and where did the sheet from station three go.

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The results view: the first three on a podium, everyone else in order behind them.

In three steps

  1. Create the race Type a name, add the entrants — a first name is enough, a group such as “Year 4” is optional. You get a six-character code.
  2. Code onto the second device Anyone who types that code is in the same race. One device takes the start, one the finish.
  3. Start and stop One press for the whole field at the start, one tap per arrival at the finish. The time appears on both devices at once.
Cost
none
Devices
two with a browser
Entrants
up to 400
Data
deleted after 60 days

Three ways to start

A mass start gives everyone the same start time — one press for the whole field. An interval start sends someone off every few seconds, anywhere between five seconds and an hour apart. Or start each entrant individually when things are less orderly.

Every start runs a countdown with sound, so nobody has to shout.

When the signal drops

On a sports field a phone has one bar or none. A tap is not lost either way: the device remembers the time and sends it on once there is signal again — with the time it was actually tapped, not the time the message arrived. The two devices align their clocks beforehand.

Watching along

Parents and spectators open the same address and follow the results without installing anything. At the end you get a list ranked per group and overall, and a CSV file to download. That is the evening of typing gone.

Limits, plainly

A race holds up to 400 entrants. It needs two devices with a browser — start and finish cannot share one. And it is not chip timing: a human presses the button, so the accuracy is that of an attentive person with a thumb ready.

Races are deleted automatically after 60 days, names included. Download the CSV if you want to keep the results.

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