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I don’t expect this blog to interest anyone but competition shooting nerds, probably only me, who I made it for.

I’m testing the idea that listening to a given BPM, and trying to keep the pace mentally, and then with my trigger pull, will speed up trigger speed/split times. I’ve always felt my splits were on the slow side, and though I have pulled off .12s and .13s I had to focus only them, and I don’t think they ever happened in match conditions regardless of how close a target might be.

I got the idea of using the metronomes from this video, where the guy says by listening to, getting your brain accustomed to, and trying to keep up with very fast rhythms (600 or 500 BPM) it will then make it easy to pull off otherwise difficult, but very competitive trigger rhythms (400 BPM or 0.15 splits).

For those interested in the math, to convert BPM to split times, you take 60 seconds and divide by the BPM. For example 60/600 = 0.10, 60/500 = 0.12 and 60/400 is 0.15.

I don’t know if this will work or not, but it does align with some observations/suspicions. So I’m testing it on myself. I haven’t found any research on such, but it seems, and feels, plausible. Plausible enough to try, and the above links make the relevant BPMs easier to access than looking for them individually on youtube.