Average Time Calculator

The Average Time Calculator is used to get the average of multiple time entries. For instance, you have list of time entries like 4 hours: 2 minutes: 30 seconds, 3 hours: 47 minutes and 2 hours: 25 minutes, use this calculator if you want to get the average time. Although, you can always do it manually but for quite long list of time entries, this calculator could help you out.

How to Use the Average Time Calculator

Some practical usage of this calculator is when you are doing a meter sprint. You always want to record the time you have finished a sprint. Getting the average is quite helpful to give you more room for improvement.

This calculator also will help you with getting an average time you are finishing up a repetitive activity. Like how much time you are spending traveling a distance from work, average time working on the same project for different clients, and many other applications that requires getting average time is crucial.

Step 1
The first thing you might want to do is to check whether you need all hours, minutes, seconds and milliseconds input fields. You can omit the one's you don't need by just unchecking the corresponding checkbox on the ⚙️ Display Settings.
Step 2
The next step is to enter the time entries on their corresponding input fields, which of course they are labeled with hours, minutes, seconds and milliseconds. Let's work an example for now, on the first row, enter 5 hours, 30 minutes, 45 seconds. Then, 4 hours, 8 minutes and 12 seconds on the second row.
Step 3
There are two default time rows on the calculator marked by a circular counter on the left side (which we have filled with time entries if you are following our example). You can always add a row by clicking on +Add Row button.
Step 4
When you have entered all your time entries, it's now time to get the Average Time. All you need to do is press Enter on your keyboard or click the Calculate button to get the result. To reset all the input fields and results, you can just click the Clear button.

Average Time Calculator Inputs and Outputs

The main functionality of the Average Time Calculator is simply to give you the average time from all your time entries. With that being mentioned, every time you enter a number, that number is also called as input. It's something you give to the calculator for processing. While the output is the result of the calculation.

Display Settings

The display settings are added on the calculator for you to personalize your inputs. These are in the form of checkboxes, which is checked by default. It includes the Hours, Minutes, Seconds and Milliseconds. You can actually uncheck the one's you don't need and it will be hidden on the display.

Inputs

By default, there are two time input groups in the calculator which are the fields you can enter your time entries. To add more input fields - hours, minutes, seconds and milliseconds - you just need to click on +Add Row button.

Outputs

The output or the result of the calculation is being displayed right below the input fields which is labeled with ✍ Result. This is the Average Time from all your time entries.

Calculate and Clear Buttons

Make sure to click on the Calculate button every time you have finished entering your inputs. You can also clear them by just clicking the Clear button.

How to compute average time?

You can manually compute the average time with the right step by step procedure. While doing so, let's run each step with an example. Let's have three time entries.


  1st time: 1 hour 30 minutes 0 seconds 
  2nd time: 2 hour 45 minutes 0 seconds
  3rd time: 2 hours 15 minutes 30 seconds

Step 1. Convert each time entry into total seconds.

Let's convert every time entry into smallest unit. Since our smallest time unit is seconds, let's convert hours and minutes into seconds. Using time unit conversion, it is given that 1 hour is equivalent to 3600 seconds and 1 minute is equals to 60 seconds.


  1st time = 1 hour 30 minutes 0 seconds
            = (1 x 3600) + (30 x 60) + 0
            = 3600 + 1800 + 0
            = 5,400 seconds
  
  2nd time = 2 hour 45 minutes 0 seconds
            = (2 x 3600) + (45 x 60) + 0
            = 7200 + 2700 + 0
            = 9,900 seconds
  
  3rd time = 2 hours 15 minutes 30 seconds
            = (2 x 3600) + (15 x 60) + 30
            = 7200 + 900 + 30
            = 8,130 seconds

Step 2. Add all the time entries that have been converted to seconds.
```
  5,400 + 9,900 + 8,130 = 23,430 seconds
```
Step 3. Get the average by dividing it by the number of entries.
For this example, we have 3 time entries. So, let's divided our total seconds by 3.
```
   23,430 seconds / 3 = 7,810 seconds
```
Step 3. Convert it again to time format.
We know that 3600 seconds is equals to 1 hour (converted as 1 hour x 60 minutes x 60 seconds) so let's divide it with that. If the result gives us decimal numbers, we'll convert them to lower time units. Since what's next to hour is minute, let's convert the decimal numbers to minutes.
Then, what if after we convert the decimal/fraction numbers to minutes and it still it produces decimal numbers again? This means that we'll move to lower time unit. Since what's lower to minute is second. Let's convert those to seconds.
Here's a quick visual representation for it.
```
   7,810 seconds / 3,600 = 2.16944444444 hours
                        = 2 hours
   0.16944444444 hour * 60 = 10.1666666664 minutes
                         = 10 minutes
   0.1666666664 * 60 = 9.999 seconds
                    = 10 seconds (round off)
```
As a result, we now have 2 hours, 10 minutes and 10 seconds. We rounded off the seconds since we'll just go on and on if keep converting to lower time units.

Average Time Calculator

⚙️ Display Settings

✍ Result