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  2. Mental chronometry - Wikipedia

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    The range of sensory discrimination of a given sense also varies considerably both within and across sensory modality. For example, Kiesow (1903) found in a reaction time task of taste that human subjects are more sensitive to the presence of salt on the tongue than of sugar, reflected in a faster RT by more than 100 ms to salt than to sugar. [20]

  3. Usain Bolt - Wikipedia

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    Bolt's personal best of 9.58 seconds in 2009 in the 100 metres is the fastest ever run. [335] Bolt also holds the second fastest time of 9.63 seconds, [88] the current Olympic record, [90] and set two previous world records in the event. Bolt's personal best of 19.19 s in the 200 metres is the world record.

  4. List of world records in athletics - Wikipedia

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    Performances are also hand-timed and calculated to 1/100 of a second, although studies have shown human beings simply cannot react consistently or accurately enough for this to be a valid method, and even those using light beams are timed by the motion of the athlete, removing the normal factor of reaction time; further, football 40-yard dashes ...

  5. Jim Hines - Wikipedia

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    Automatic times start instantly with the sound of the gun, while hand times include human reaction time to start the watch. It took until 1977 before fully automatic timing was required of world records. As the fastest electronic time to that point, Hines' mark was recognized exclusively as a new world record. [5]

  6. Fast draw - Wikipedia

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    The reaction times of the best fast draw shooters is 0.145 seconds, which means that the gun is cocked, drawn, aimed (from the hip), and fired in just over 0.06 seconds. To establish a World Fast Draw Association record, a second shot must be fired in the same competition that is no more than 0.30 seconds slower than the first; this is intended ...

  7. Niftski - Wikipedia

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    This record is the first time a human has achieved the best result with respect to "frame rules", however there is still time to save in 8-4, the game's final stage. [12] [13] Orland describes Niftski's video showing a heart rate of 188 BPM, and his tearful reaction following the run, telling himself to "Get oxygen, dude". [11]

  8. Ben Johnson (Canadian sprinter) - Wikipedia

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    1.2.1 Canadian reaction. ... in the 100 metres with a time of 10.05 seconds and was a member of the ... to be the world's fastest human being and has broken Canadian ...

  9. Eddie Tolan - Wikipedia

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    He was the first non-Euro-American to receive the title of the "world's fastest human" after winning gold medals in the 100 and 200 meters events at the 1932 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles. In March 1935, Tolan won the 75, 100 and 220-yard events at the World Professional Sprint Championships in Melbourne to become the first man to win both the ...