Fastest Hand Reaction Time Experiment

Fastest Hand Reaction Time

Problem/Question

Which hand has the fastest reaction time?

Hypothesis

I think that your dominant hand has the fastest reaction time, which is my right hand because you use your dominant hand for most things so maybe it would be faster than your other hand.

Procedure

Color of cups used 

There are four cups in front of you that are four different colors, one person stands in front of the cups while one person calls out a color, that person in front of the cups will point to the color being called out. The person calling out will call out the 4 colors 10 times in different orders. The right hand will be tested first, and the left hand will be tested after, this will vary throughout the two trials. During each trial, the hand not being tested will be held behind their back. And there must be a total of 4 different color cups.

Data

Trials	Right Hand	Left Hand
Trial 1	||||||||||     00:10:88	||||||||||    00:11:37
Trial 2	||||||||||     00:12:25	||||||||||    00:11:18

                                        Line Graph 

Conclusion
In conclusion, the left hand had a faster reaction time compared to the right hand. My hypothesis was proven wrong, from all the information given above. As you can see from the table above, even though the right hand had a faster reaction time in the first trial, the left hand had the fastest time out of both of the trials. The left hand’s average time was still faster than the average time of the right hand. Once again, in conclusion my left hand had the faster reaction time.