The Time Perception Index (TPI)

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The TPI is primarily an educational tool to help you better control your experience of time perception.  The index score is not recorded so it remains a private experience.  You have the choice to track or take screenshots to record your score.  You can also select different choices to see how they impact your TPI score.

To get the best experience out of the TPI try to capture a score daily or at least once a week.  You may even want to share with friends and family.  As you become more aware of factors in your daily life that impact your time perception it will become easier to manage and control them as well as support others.   You can also set goals to use your time perception awareness to improve your lifestyle, optimize performance and help overcome medical challenges.

The TPI can help evaluate and improve performance from fitness and sports to business and arts by revealing changes in arousal, attention, and cognitive load that affect pacing, decision-making, learning, and stress. By making subjective time awareness explicit, people can better align effort with task demands, optimize focus and skill acquisition, prevent burnout, and reduce impulsive errors under pressure.   It can also be used as a metric to measure performance goals or shared temporal experiences.

The TPI can be used to continually improve general lifestyle experiences including managing stress, relationships and career goals.  It can reveal how stress, fatigue, engagement, and habits shape daily experience, helping people detect overload, improve balance, prioritize meaningful activities and support recovery.  The TPI can also help highlight which activities enhance or drain well-being and cause lifestyle strain early through changes in sleep and health-related factors along with promoting mindfulness and presence, supporting greater balance, satisfaction, and emotional regulation. 

The TPI can help improve medical problems by revealing early changes in mental and physical states, supporting diagnosis and monitoring, personalizing treatment, and enabling better self-regulation and long-term management of symptoms. Distortions in time perception are linked to many conditions—such as depression, anxiety, ADHD, PTSD, chronic pain, sleep disorders, and neurological disease. By monitoring whether time feels consistently rushed, slowed, fragmented, or blunted, clinicians and patients can detect early warning signs of symptom worsening before objective measures change.