This page opens with the timer already set to 5 minutes. Press Start or hit the spacebar and it begins; when time is up the alarm rings and the disk blinks. You can always drag the disk to a different time.
Take a real five-minute break
Duke University’s Academic Resource Center describes the Pomodoro Technique as 25 minutes of work followed by a 5-minute break, preferably away from a screen. Wontimer’s Pomodoro mode uses the same 25 and 5 by default.
- Stand up as soon as the disk starts, not when half of it is gone.
- Do one physical thing: refill your water, stretch or look out of a window.
- Come back at the alarm and pick up the task you noted before the break.
Give a five-minute warning
Teachers use visual timers to make transitions predictable. The Texas Education Agency’s visual timer guide uses “You have 5 minutes left until we start the next activity” as an example of a warning before a change.
Put this page on the classroom screen before clean-up or line-up time and let the shrinking disk do the reminding.
Reading a five-minute disk
Five minutes fills the slice from 12 up to the 5 label, one gap between numbers. When the edge reaches the middle of that gap, two and a half minutes are left.
Questions about the 5 minute timer
Can it warn me before the five minutes are up?
Yes. Turn on the 1 or 2 minute heads-up in Sound and display. The 5 and 10 minute options are skipped on a five-minute timer, since they would ring at the very start.
Is a five-minute break enough?
It depends on the work. Duke’s guide pairs short breaks with a longer one of 15 to 30 minutes after every four work rounds.
Can I send the same timer to my class?
Use Share a link with this time under the presets. Anyone who opens the link gets a timer already set to five minutes.