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	0.53	0.39	0.66	0.56	0.65	0.71
9	0.61	0.63	0.66	0.56	0.48	0.53
10	0.60	0.58	0.56	0.54	0.59	0.57
11	0.57	0.61	0.56	0.52	0.53	0.50
12	0.57	0.55	0.54	0.49	0.53	0.49
13	0.57	0.60	0.53	0.50	0.50	0.49
14	0.54	0.55	0.60	0.50	0.49	0.54
15	0.52	0.59	0.47	0.49	0.46	0.55
16	0.52	0.52	0.41	0.47	0.52	0.50
17	0.49	0.53	0.43	0.45	0.42	0.41
18	0.42	0.36	0.38	0.43	0.41
19 or older	0.44			0.45

Average reaction time, by age

Age	Girls	Boys	All students
	seconds	seconds	seconds
8 or younger	0.55	0.61	0.57
9	0.61	0.55	0.58
10	0.60	0.54	0.57
11	0.57	0.52	0.55
12	0.56	0.50	0.53
13	0.57	0.50	0.54
14	0.54	0.50	0.52
15	0.52	0.50	0.51
16	0.52	0.48	0.50
17	0.49	0.45	0.47
18	0.41	0.43	0.42
19 or older	0.44	0.45	0.45

Source: Census at School Canada, 2017-2018