Pulse Meter
Tap the beat and see exactly how tight your timing is — in milliseconds. When the click drops out, your internal pulse has to carry you.
Tap, click, or press the spacebar
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Ranked by beats hit on time in the 60-second Challenge — most correct wins, accuracy breaks ties.
How the Pulse Meter works
Press Start and a metronome counts a steady 4/4 bar. Tap the pad (or the spacebar) on every beat. Each tap is measured against the audio clock and graded in milliseconds: land within the green window and you're on the pulse; outside it, the meter tells you whether you rushed or dragged.
Silent bars: the real test
Tapping along with a click is easy. Holding the tempo when the click goes away is the part that takes practice, and it's what the 60-second challenge tests: the click drops out every other bar, your taps still count, and nothing is keeping you on the grid except your own sense of the beat. In free practice you can turn on Ghost bars to work on the same skill at any tempo.
What the numbers mean
- + / − milliseconds — how far ahead (+ late) or behind (− early) of the beat your tap landed. Professional rhythm sections are routinely within ±20 ms of each other.
- Avg offset — the average size of your recent errors. Watch it shrink as you practice.
- Streak — consecutive on-the-pulse taps. A long streak says more about your time than one perfect tap.
Practice tips
- If you rush: most players tap early when they concentrate. Breathe, drop your shoulders, and let the beat come to you instead of chasing it.
- Subdivide silently. During the silent bars, hear eighth notes in your head. Subdividing is how drummers keep time honest.
- Try it slow. 50 BPM with ghost bars on is much harder than it sounds, because the longer the gap between beats, the more your internal clock is exposed.
- Keep sessions short. Timing is a motor skill; two minutes a day does more than twenty minutes once a week.