BPM tapper: tap along to find the tempo of any song

Tap the pad, or press space or T, once on every beat. The tool times the gap between your taps with the browser's high-resolution clock, averages the last eight gaps, and turns that into beats per minute. It reads the pad on pointer-down rather than on release, because waiting for release adds a little jitter to every tap.

If one tap is missed or doubled, that gap is about twice or half the others, so gaps far from the typical one are thrown out instead of averaged in. Stop for two seconds and the next tap starts a fresh count. The number is only as steady as your hand, which is why the tool says whether your taps were even.

Half and double are shown because a tapper cannot know whether you tapped the grid or the snare. A trap beat tapped on the snare reads near 70, and the same beat tapped on the hi-hats reads near 140. The genre list offers every reading that lands in a usual range, so you can pick the one that matches how the track is programmed. Those ranges are where most records sit, not rules. For more on counting tempo without a tool, read the guide to finding a song's BPM by ear.