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Five minutes for a conference slot, a wedding toast, or debate prep. Each ring is 15 seconds, so mid-sentence you can catch the time draining at the edge of your vision instead of reading digits.
Five minutes is a common slot: the lightning talk at a meetup, the wedding toast that people will thank you for keeping short, the prepared speech in many club and school formats, the pitch round where the next founder is waiting. It is also short enough that a single overrun is obvious to everyone in the room. The dial on this page is silent, sheds a ring every 15 seconds, and only chimes at zero, so it works both for rehearsal and as a speaker clock the audience can see.
| Slot | Timer | Each ring | Begin the close at |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 minute pitch | 3 minute timer | 9 seconds | 4 rings, about 35 seconds |
| 5 minute talk | this page | 15 seconds | 4 rings, one minute |
| 7 minute prepared speech | 7 minute timer | 21 seconds | 3 rings, about a minute |
| 18 minute conference talk | 18 minute timer | 54 seconds | 3 rings, under three minutes |
Fullscreen the dial on a laptop facing the speaker, or on the confidence monitor if the venue has one. For a panel or a debate with fixed turns, build a Cycle with one block per speaker; the chime at each change is a fair, impersonal signal that nobody has to interrupt with. A Room does the same when the speaker and the timekeeper are looking at different screens.
Rehearsing at reading speed and then slowing down on stage is the classic overrun; live delivery tends to run longer, which is why the rehearsal target leaves rings to spare. Watching the dial constantly reads as nerves; glance at it at the end of a point, once a minute. And a talk that ends with time to spare is fine. Nobody has ever complained that a speech was too short. The guide on presentations and speaking time goes further.
Start it as you begin speaking and aim to land the close before the chime. The rings stay silent, so nothing interrupts a run-through.
Yes. Fullscreen it and the dial works as a speaker clock the whole room can read.
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.