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This timer draws 3 minutes as 20 concentric rings; one empties every 9 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 steeping black tea, instant noodles, or a short break between study blocks.
Three minutes is the length of a boxing round, a pop song, and the steep on most black tea. It is the first duration where a wait is long enough to wander off from, which is why the double chime matters more here than on the seconds dials. Each ring lasts nine seconds; the face empties in a slow, even sweep.
Breakfast blends, Assam, and Ceylon leaf all steep in about three minutes with water just off the boil. Instant noodles, by coincidence, take the same three minutes in freshly boiled water. Start the dial as the water goes in and do something else; the rings are silent and the chime carries to the next room. The tea timer page is this same length with tea-specific notes.
A professional boxing round is three minutes with a one minute rest between. On this dial, one round is the full face. For a full three round bout, the 11 minute dial covers three rounds and the two rests in between, or open a three minute dial and a one minute dial side by side and start them in turn. Bag work, shadow boxing, and skipping all use the same round.
Three minutes is enough to stand, refill a glass, and come back without losing the thread. It is shorter than the standard five minute pomodoro break, and better suited to short blocks where five minutes off would be a third of the work done. Start it when you stand up, not when you sit down.
| Split | Change at ring |
|---|---|
| Three one-minute pieces | 7 and 13 (roughly) |
| Two ninety-second halves | 10 |
| Six thirty-second holds | every third or fourth ring |
The one-minute split does not land on whole rings, so if you switch every minute, the 1 minute dial restarted three times is cleaner.
Green tea wants two minutes; herbal tea and Tabata want four. There is a three-minute video on the card, and every duration is on the timers page.
9 seconds. The dial always has 20 rings, and this timer runs 3 minutes.
Yes. The nearest pages are the 2 minute timer and the 5 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.