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This timer draws 2 minutes as 20 concentric rings; one empties every 6 seconds, so a glance shows how far along you are without reading a digit. It chimes at zero, keeps counting in a background tab, runs fullscreen, and exports as a free MP4 video. Handy for brushing your teeth, steeping green tea, or clearing one messy surface.
The two minute rule handles the small stuff: if a task takes less than two minutes, do it now, because tracking it for later costs more than doing it. A visible countdown makes the deal concrete, and most small jobs fit: the short reply, the dishes in the sink, the calendar entry. Dentists ask for the same two minutes of brushing, which is longer than most people give it without a clock.
Two minutes is long enough to finish something and short enough that starting it never feels like a commitment. On the dial, each ring is six seconds; the face empties at a walking pace, and you can look away for a while and still know roughly where you are when you look back.
A two minute dial holds a full ladder of thirty second holds: plank, rest, plank, rest, with the switches at rings five, ten, and fifteen. Because the rings are evenly spaced, you never need to read a number; when a quarter of the face has gone, switch. Two dials side by side, one set to two minutes and one to thirty seconds, is the easier setup if you prefer a chime at each change.
Most green teas want a short steep in water well off the boil, and two minutes is the safe middle. Longer pulls out bitterness; shorter tastes thin. Start the dial as the water hits the leaves and lift them at the chime. The tea timer page is set to three minutes for black tea, and the 4 minute dial suits most herbal blends.
Two minutes will not clean a room, but it will clear a desk, a kitchen counter, or the top of a dresser. Pick one flat surface, start the dial, and put things where they belong until the chime. The trick is stopping at the chime, so the job stays small enough to repeat tomorrow.
A brisk two minute walk, or two minutes of leg swings and easy skips, is a fair warm-up before an easy run. Start the dial at the door and begin running at the chime. Two minutes also covers the cool-down walk at the end.
Dentists ask for two minutes, and the toothbrush page is a one minute starter version for kids. On this dial, brushing splits into four quadrants of five rings each; move on when each quarter of the face has gone dark. The card also carries a matching video if a child would rather watch a clip than a dial.
Shorter and longer neighbours: the 1 minute and 3 minute dials, and everything else on the timers page.
6 seconds. The dial always has 20 rings, and this timer runs 2 minutes.
Yes. The nearest pages are the 1 minute timer and the 3 minute timer, and the custom field on any dial takes an exact length.
Add it as a browser source in OBS; the background stays transparent. Change t for any length.
A radial timer is a free online countdown timer you set in one click: pick a length, press Start, and an alarm sounds at zero. Run several timers at once, take one fullscreen, or pop one out picture-in-picture to float over other apps. Every timer keeps counting in a background tab, and any timer exports as a video. No download, no sign-up.
Its dial draws the countdown as 20 concentric rings, one for each twentieth of the duration. Rings empty one by one, outermost first, so a glance shows how far along you are without reading a digit.
Yes. The countdown follows the clock, so it stays on time while you work in another tab and still chimes at zero. The picture-in-picture popout keeps a small dial in view the whole way.
Yes. Any timer exports as an MP4 or a transparent WebM of the whole countdown, up to 4K and 60 fps, in 16:9, vertical, or square.
Yes. In OBS, add a browser source pointing at radialtimers.com/overlay?t=25m and a transparent dial counts down over your scene. Change t for any length, like 90s or 3h.
As many as you need. Each timer gets its own dial and runs on its own, which suits interval workouts, several dishes on the stove, or a room of activity stations.