Average reaction time

Average reaction time, by age and dominant hand

		Girls			Boys
Age	Right-handed	Left-handed	Ambidextrous	Right-handed	Left-handed	Ambidextrous
	Seconds	Seconds	Seconds	Seconds	Seconds	Seconds
8 or younger	0.68	0.49	0.85	0.64	0.83	0.60
9	0.58	0.58	0.57	0.55	0.54	0.48
10	0.60	0.59	0.54	0.55	0.54	0.55
11	0.56	0.56	0.56	0.50	0.51	0.47
12	0.53	0.55	0.52	0.49	0.48	0.48
13	0.56	0.55	0.53	0.48	0.50	0.47
14	0.50	0.51	0.49	0.46	0.47	0.36
15	0.51	0.44	0.50	0.43	0.52	0.47
16	0.47	0.38	0.46	0.42	0.50	0.39
17	0.45	0.46	0.50	0.42	0.41	0.37
18	0.49	0.50	0.64	0.40	0.30	0.57
19 or older	0.55	0.40	0.00	0.55	0.43	0.46

Average reaction time, by age

Age	Girls	Boys	All students
	seconds	seconds	seconds
8 or younger	0.66	0.65	0.65
9	0.58	0.54	0.56
10	0.60	0.55	0.58
11	0.56	0.50	0.53
12	0.53	0.49	0.51
13	0.55	0.48	0.52
14	0.50	0.45	0.48
15	0.50	0.44	0.47
16	0.46	0.43	0.45
17	0.46	0.42	0.44
18	0.50	0.40	0.45
19 or older	0.54	0.51	0.53

Source: Census at School Canada, 2016-2017