Six-fifteen, living room rug, coffee still brewing. The phone leans against the TV stand reading 22:00, you tap start, and the boot-camp drills run until the alarm — that is the scene this page was built around. The same 22 minutes covers plenty else: a treadmill effort at 5K race pace, a single-serve lasagna in the air fryer, one episode before bed. The countdown itself runs on your own device. No account, no install, nothing to dial in. At zero, the alarm sounds until you stop it.
What a 22 Minute Timer Is Good For
One episode, and the kids know it
"One more episode" is easier to hold as a deal when it has a face. A US network half-hour is really about 22 minutes of story wrapped in eight minutes of ads, and streaming keeps that runtime with the ads stripped out. Put 22:00 on a phone by the TV, start it with the episode, and the countdown does the arguing at bedtime instead of you.
22 Minute Hard Corps, without the DVD menu
Tony Horton's boot-camp program runs eight weeks, six days a week, alternating cardio and resistance rounds — every scheduled session capped at 22 minutes. If you work from the calendar rather than a disc, this page is the clock: prop the phone where you can read it from a plank, and let the fullscreen digits track the round. The wake lock keeps the screen lit through the floor work.
Sub-22 5K, rehearsed on the treadmill
Twenty-two minutes for 5K is a milestone runners train toward for months — it takes roughly 7:05 per mile, or 4:24 per kilometer, held for the full 3.1. Set the treadmill at that pace and start this countdown beside it. Still running at 00:00 and the pace is yours; if the last four minutes come apart, you have found exactly where the training goes next.
One frozen lasagna, one air fryer
A single-serve frozen lasagna — the eight- to ten-ounce kind — comes out of a 175°C (350°F) air fryer in about 22 minutes, with foil laid loosely on top so the cheese does not scorch before the middle thaws. The same tray in a conventional oven wants closer to an hour. Start the countdown when the basket closes, check for 74°C (165°F) in the center at the alarm and add time if it is short, then let it rest five minutes.
The standup that gives back eight minutes
A 30-minute hold does not have to eat 30 minutes. Run the agenda against a 22:00 countdown shared on screen, and the eight minutes left over become the notes, the follow-up message, and a walk to the kettle before the next call. People talk differently when the clock is visible: updates tighten, and the tangent that needs its own meeting gets named as one.
Four, twelve, six: a practice session that fits
Twenty-two minutes is long enough for a real practice session and short enough to do on a school night. One workable split: four minutes of scales and long tones, twelve on the piece that is genuinely hard, six on sight-reading or review. The timer, not the parent, calls the end — which removes the argument and, more often, gets the instrument back out tomorrow.
The tidy before the doorbell
Guests are 25 minutes out and the whole apartment is not happening. Twenty-two minutes, assigned in advance, is: eight on kitchen counters and the sink, six on the bathroom, five on clearing flat surfaces into one basket, three on lighting and a candle. Working against a countdown stops the perfectionist trap of deep-cleaning one shelf while the hallway stays a disaster.
How This Timer Works
Nothing to configure: the clock opens at 22:00, and start is the only decision you have to make. Remaining time mirrors into the tab title, and pause and reset stay one tap away. If you want a different alarm sound, choose a tone and audition it with the test button before you start. Fullscreen scales the digits for across-the-room reading; a wake lock holds the phone display awake for the full 22. The end time is pinned to your device's clock rather than accumulated tick by tick, so switching tabs or locking the screen cannot drift the count. At zero the alarm repeats until dismissed, self-silencing after 60 seconds if nobody is there.
Keyboard shortcuts: Space starts or pauses, R resets, F toggles fullscreen. The countdown is anchored to your device's clock, so it stays accurate even if the browser throttles the tab in the background.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does the timer keep running if my phone locks or I switch apps?
Normally the screen will not lock at all — the page asks the system for a wake lock, which keeps the display lit while the countdown runs. And if the phone does sleep, or you switch to another app, the count is unaffected: the finish time is fixed against your device clock when you press start, not accumulated by counting ticks. So a backgrounded tab cannot fall behind and quietly report the wrong number — come back to it and the remaining time is the real remaining time.
How loud is the alarm, and how long will it keep ringing?
It plays at whatever your device volume is set to, in whichever tone you pick from the menu — the test button previews your choice at that volume, so you can set it before a workout rather than discover it at zero. When the countdown lands, the alarm repeats rather than chiming once. Ignore it and it stops by itself after about 60 seconds, so a tab left open overnight never rings on forever.
Why are TV episodes 22 minutes long?
Because a US network half-hour was never 30 minutes of show. The slot is 30, and roughly eight of those go to commercials and station promos, leaving about 22 minutes of episode. Streaming inherited the runtime without the ads, which is why a sitcom on a streaming service still tends to land near 22 minutes. It is also why 22 is such a natural unit of screen time.
Is 22 Minute Hard Corps really only 22 minutes?
The workouts are. Tony Horton's Beachbody program is eight weeks of military-style training — six sessions a week, alternating total-body cardio with resistance and core rounds — and the scheduled routines are all built to run 22 minutes, with the bonus ab routine the short exception. That is the whole premise: a boot-camp stimulus that fits a weekday morning. This page just supplies the clock if you are following the calendar from memory or from the app rather than watching a disc.
What pace do I need for a 22-minute 5K?
About 7:05 per mile, or 4:24 per kilometer, sustained across all 3.1 miles — no fade in the last kilometer. It is a genuine milestone rather than an elite time, and it is usually within reach if you are currently finishing between 23:00 and 24:30. Treadmill work at exactly that pace, against exactly this countdown, is one of the plainer ways to find out whether the pace is there yet.
Can I pause it, or change the 22 minutes to something else?
Pause holds the remaining seconds through a doorbell, a phone call, or a form check mid-set, and resuming picks the count up exactly where it stopped; reset drops the display back to 22:00 for the next round. The duration itself is fixed at 1,320 seconds — this page does one thing, which is why it opens ready to start rather than asking you to dial in numbers first.