The 67 Speed Test: How Fast Can You Do the Gesture?
The speed test is the gym version of the meme. How it works, what the fast people do, and why we built it into 67 Tap instead of a camera.
· 2 min read · by the 67 team
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Somewhere in 2025 the gesture became a sport. How many six-sevens can you do in ten seconds, in thirty, in a minute? The speed test was born.
The original speed tests
The first versions used a phone camera and motion detection to count arm movements. They were fun, inaccurate and gave people sore shoulders. Scores in the hundreds per minute were common and nobody could verify anything.
Our version
67 Tap counts taps, not arm movements. Two thumbs on the button is the same gesture, just smaller. The 67-second sprint is our speed test: a fixed window, a saved best, a leaderboard with names. Every tap is also a 67 for your country, so the test and the counter are the same thing.
What fast looks like
- 5 taps per second: normal, sustained, one thumb.
- 8 taps per second: two thumbs, good rhythm, hard to hold for a minute.
- 10 and up: drummers, gamers, people who have done this before.
- 15: the limit we accept. Above it, taps are dropped and we assume a script.
Technique
- Loose wrists. Tension slows you down after twenty seconds.
- Alternate hands or thumbs; never one finger.
- Keyboard beats touchscreen for endurance; touchscreen beats keyboard for burst.
- Breathe. People forget.
Why a fixed window
Ten seconds rewards a burst; five minutes rewards stubbornness. Sixty-seven seconds is long enough that pacing matters and short enough that you will try again immediately. Also it is 67, and it had to be.
The record
We do not publish a single "world record" because the leaderboard changes daily. The top of the 67 Tap leaderboard is the record, right now, with a name next to it. Beat it and it is yours.
