Silent Stopwatch, No Beep Digital Timer for Testing and Exams

This review was written in September 2018. There are multiple reviews for prior versions of this product, please disregard those, as it has changed. It seems more often than not we suffer products that have too many unusable features, unintelligible instructions, and require complicated procedures for achieving simple functions, yet fail to perform the most basic of tasks. Thankfully this is not one of those products. Pushing the on/off button turns it on or off. Pushing the start/stop button starts or stops the timer. When timing, pushing the Lap/Reset button freezes the display so you can see the lap time, but the timer continues to run in the background, and lets you know it’s still running by flashing the colon (:) between minutes and seconds. Pushing Lap/Reset again unfreezes the display and displays the running elapsed time. You can push Lap/Reset as many times as you want to freeze/unfreeze the elapsed time. Pushing Lap/Reset when the timer is stopped resets the timer to zero. That’s all. No beeps, no memory, no lap splits, no countdown, no clearing previous data, no programming of dates, days, years, current time, daylight savings time, alarm times, zulu time, backlight intensity programming, Bluetooth interface with mobile app, magnetic flux variations, relativistic tachyon beam distortion factors or any other useless and complicated procedures that engineers and marketing departments hopelessly pile on as “features” that no one can possibly remember, much less use. The display is easy to read and it times to the 1/100 of a second, which is far beyond my needs. It takes 2 AAA batteries, which are included. That’s a nice change, and much preferred over those stupid button batteries, with seemingly hundreds of different types out there identified by slightly different numbers which are never compatible with each other. It’s also accurate. Like a previous reviewer, I timed a 12 hour period to the second as given by the time on my phone, but unlike his results, mine came up dead on. The only quibble possible is that the case feels light and a little flimsy, and dropping it pops opens the battery compartment. Solution: don’t drop it. If you just need a stopwatch that times things and doesn’t assume that you need to perform integral calculus via voice command on the fly, this is it. For the price, I don’t think you can beat it.

As someone who has to administer assessments for people, this was great. It really is silent and simple to use. It is easy to read and the buttons aren’t confusing to use.

If what you want - if what you REALLY want - is a stopwatch, then you've finally found one. I returned three, count 'em three previous pretenders to this throne: 2 of these were Casio multi-function wristwatches with stopwatch modes, and the third was a pricey multi-function "dedicated" stopwatch because (a) all 3 had defects, (b) all 3 had "instructions" written in a strange English-like language that was really just techno-babble, and (3) all of them were insanely complex, and packed with bells and whistles that were both unnecessary, and also impossible to control because the "instructions" were mainly incomprehensible, and those instructions that were comprehensible mainly didn't work. As last, this one is a real, working stopwatch. That's all I wanted, and that's all it is. Here's what I know so far: They delivered it overnight (I paid $2.99 extra for early delivery, and it got here before 11 AM). It's a stopwatch: I have already confirmed that it starts, it stops and it resets. Do you think that's a small thing? Then why do you think I had to return the previous 3 watches? This one, at long last, does what I need done, and, praise the LORD, it works. No bells and whistles, which I regard as at least a blessing; maybe -- after my previous 3 flops -- maybe it's actually a privilege. As advertised, it takes AAA batteries, so no more wrestling with microscopic screws, or visits to the watch store for a button battery change. Only one question remains: How long w ill it last? ALL of these inexpensive watches are reported to sometimes die young, but only by a minority of reviewers, so I'm keeping my fingers crossed.

I should start off by saying it literally took less than 24 hours for the digital stopwatch to be delivered to me! I bought another one because the last one I bought I decided to use as a back up after about 7 years of constant usage. This is a really good stop watch that even includes the batteries in the purchase. While it is a really good stop watch it does have one problem: The back cover easily will fall off and if this happens the watch basically will not work. I solved this problem by putting a piece of duct tape over the battery cover. This problem could be solved by putting a screw in to hold the battery cover to prevent the cover from falling off. I should also add that I keep this stop watch in my car all year round the heat and/or cold weather does not keep it from working and as long as you put a piece of duct tape (or something similiar) over the cover to keep it from falling off you should have many, many years of great use. Summary: Price and performance. Hard to beat that combination. Easy to use Stopwatch with an on/off switch to save battery life. Just remember to put a small piece of duct tape over the battery cover to keep it from falling off. I took one star off for this problem. All in all though this is as good a stop watch as you can buy and its pretty inexpensive too.

There truly is no sound with each click. Perfect for timing in quiet settings where you do not want the sound of the stopwatch to be distracting. The stopwatch is easy to use and works great!

After receiving this I immediately tried it out, trying to get as close to 1.00 seconds as possible. Strangely, I would keep getting 0.96, 0.80, or sometimes 1.12. It turns out this only ever reports a multiple of 0.16 seconds! This makes it useless even for measuring to the nearest 1/10 of a second -- if the watch first rounds to the nearest 0.16, then you round that to the nearest 0.10, it's statistically invalid. Why didn't they just make it count out by 0.10? Even worse, it looks like they try to cover it up by flashing random digits in the hundredths place, including odd digits! Then when you press stop, it shifts to a multiple of 0.16. This both false advertising (implying that it measures 1/100 seconds), plus the worst engineering design I've ever seen ... it doesn't even make sense, it would have been simpler to just build it the correct way. And I haven't even tested its accuracy as far as how much it drifts compared to real time -- other reviews say it's pretty bad in that respect as well.

Worked really well... Till I dropped it. Once. I am electronically very capable and it was not something simple like a mis-aligned battery. It was, just dead. Not a good return on my small investment. I disassembled the stopwatch and discovered that the contacts of the switches and on-off buttons are not soldered on – just a friction fit and taped. Fine for some things. Not a portable – anything. I hope the owner of this store will read this and know more about the Quality of the product they sell. I wish you all well! But now I have to take the time to find a better one and wait for that one to get here. Save money and time. Get a sturdier one to begin with. UPDATE:: The Company did the right thing! Wow, pretty amazing, they refunded my money and were actually nice about the whole thing. That is the way Business is supost to be done - Thanks! Upgraded two stars. I wish you all well!

Particularly for the price, this stopwatch is excellent. I must admit, it is important that you keep track of the mode in which the stopwatch is operating. The only "problem" I have with this stopwatch is that if you are not careful, you could find yourself going into the setup function, and possibly altering the correct time. Once you make this mistake one time, you probably won't make it again. Having said that, just make sure you keep track of which mode you are in. As an example, if you hit the mode button to go into the stopwatch mode, and then you use the stopwatch, all you have to do is hit the mode button one time and it'll take you back to your base display, which is displaying the date and time. However, if you go into the stopwatch mode and after waiting a little while, you decide you don't need to use the stopwatch, hitting the mode button one time will not take you back to the time/date screen. At that point it is easy to lose track of where you are. If you have a good memory, and can remember the individual codes for each mode (this code is shown by certain and specific days flashing which represent the mode you're in), you might never lose track of where you are; but my memory is just not that good, and for little while I just had to keep track of where I was. Okay, sorry for rambling, having said all this, this is an excellent device, even at twice the price.

This display doesn't light up. For the price point I assumed it would have a backlight so you can see the numbers better, but it doesn't so this is as basic as it gets for a stopwatch.

Great product. Can't get any more user-friendly than this. I need to use a stopwatch in quiet settings and the silent operation provides peace of mind.

The back of this product keeps falling off and now I have lost it altogether. This means the batteries are not held in place and therefore they drop out. I put it back several times but now it is lost so I have put an elastic band round it to see if I can stop the batteris falling out. Only bought in May but Amazon give you no where to complain and get a refund.

I absolutely LOVE this stopwatch, it is exactly what I wanted. So easy to use, even I can 'work' it! Running my own cleaning business & charging by the hour, I have now gotten into the habit of setting the stopwatch when I arrive at my client's house & checking periodically to ensure I am within my time. Far easier than trying to remember to check the time by your watch or a convenient clock when you get there, something I frequently used to forget to do. Great value & sooooo simple.

Very cheap quality and has no countdown option. Only stopwatch timer. No other function. Not suitable for countdown timer in exam conditions.