Time

Time is a duration memory game published by Dialed, which runs it alongside Color, Color-Toon, Sound, Shape, Pattern and Tempo in the same browser suite. A run is five rounds. Each round shows one pulse of a given length, then hands control back and asks for that same length again: hold a button down and release it when the interval feels finished. Nothing counts for you, and the Dialed games index puts the pitch plainly, feel how long a moment lasts, then reproduce it exactly, no counting. Two difficulties are on offer. Easy keeps visual hints on screen, Hard switches them off and draws from a wider range of durations. Scoring is proportional rather than absolute, so a percentage miss costs the same whether the target was short or long. Where the rest of the suite tests hue, pitch, shape or rhythm, this one isolates the internal clock.

1. Choose Easy or Hard, enter your initials, and start a run of five rounds.
2. Watch the pulse that opens the round and register its length instead of counting seconds off in your head.
3. Hold the button down for your answer and release it the moment the interval feels the same length.
4. Work through all five rounds, each worth up to ten points, for a total out of 50.
5. Read the breakdown at the end, which lists every round with its score to two decimals.
6. Post the total under your initials, or share a challenge link so friends face the same pulses.

For anyone curious how far their sense of a second has drifted, this is the cheapest answer going: five rounds, a minute or two, and a total out of 50 that flatters nobody. The log-ratio curve is harsh in a useful way, since a 20 percent miss lands near six points out of ten whatever the target was. Skip it if you want something to solve, because there is nothing to deduce here, only a body clock to calibrate. Head-counters should go straight to Hard, where the visual hints come off and the habit stops helping.

Every round returns a score out of ten to two decimals, and the five add up to a total out of 50. The gap is measured proportionally: your duration divided by the target, the log of that ratio, then a Gaussian curve, which makes an overshoot and an undershoot of the same percentage cost exactly the same. The published reference puts a 5 percent error at 9.72 on Easy and 9.63 on Hard, 20 percent at 6.71 and 5.88, and 50 percent at 1.39 and 0.72. A written verdict lands next to the number, rarely a kind one. In multiplayer the closest match wins.

Solo

Five rounds on your own, played on Easy with visual hints or on Hard without them and with a wider spread of durations. Each difficulty keeps its own high-score table alongside the daily one.

Daily

The same five durations for everyone that day, one attempt, and a countdown next to the date showing how long is left before the reset. A bonus play unlocks in exchange for watching an ad, and that second try closes the day.

Multiplayer

Create and copy a game link so friends face the same pulses whenever they get round to it. Closest match wins, the page adds that there is nowhere to hide, and a single set can score up to 50 players.

Live game

Host a round played in real time on a shared timer. The host picks Easy or Hard and a round count of 1, 3, 5 or a custom number, invites players by link, and decides when to start.

• Error is measured as a ratio, so the scoring page's own example holds: 200 ms late on a 500 ms target is a far worse miss than 200 ms late on a 3000 ms target. Slow down on the short pulses.
• Long and short cost the same. Being 20 percent over is worth exactly what 20 percent under is worth, so there is no safe direction to lean.
• The curve is flat near a perfect match. An error of 5 percent still scores 9.72 on Easy, so chasing the last few milliseconds buys little, while a 25 percent miss cuts the round to about half.
• Hard removes the visual hints and widens the spread of durations, so learn the feel of an interval on Easy before switching boards.
• The release is what gets measured, so keep the finger steady on the way down. The scoring page says the flat top of the curve exists to absorb exactly that button-release jitter.
• The daily allows one attempt at the same five durations everyone else gets, so take a practice run on Easy or Hard first and arrive warm.