Deliberate practice
Hours alone don't improve playing — focused hours do. Practice Timer structures every minute around deliberate work on the things you can't do yet.
- Ericsson, 1993
- Duke et al., 2009
The method behind the timer.
Practice Timer didn't invent a new way to practice — it operationalizes decades of performance and learning research into a timer you can actually follow. Here's what it's built on.
Consolidation happens here — your brain replays the passage faster than real time
Rest and consolidation
Your brain consolidates new skills during the pause, not the push — and during short rests it replays what you just played, far faster than real time. That's why rest intervals are built in, not bolted on.
- Walker et al., 2002
- Buch et al., 2021
- Kramár et al., 2012
Spacing and interleaving
Short, spaced bursts beat marathon sessions, and switching between exercise types builds skill faster than grinding one in a row. That's the shuffle button on your plan.
- Moulton et al., 2006
- Hall et al., 1994
Goals and self-tracking
Clear goals plus honest self-tracking drive faster gains. Every session ends with a clear summary, and your dashboard shows the trend.
- Cleary & Zimmerman, 2001
Habit formation
Habits form through consistent repetition — roughly 66 days at a daily cadence. Your plan and reminders are tuned to build the habit, at your pace.
- Lally et al., 2010
Where LTP-Boost comes from
Long-Term Potentiation is the biological process that strengthens neural connections — the mechanism that turns repetition into skill, and it largely happens during rest. LTP-Boost reads the work-and-rest structure of your session and scores, from 0 to 100, how well it supports that process.
Citations are to published research; Practice Timer is an independent product and is not endorsed by these authors.
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