Browser games and pointless experiments. Nothing to install.
Browser games and pointless experiments. Nothing to install.
Enter your birthday. Watch your remaining time tick, then go spend it better.
Based on your chosen life expectancy. This is a perspective toy, not a prediction. Statistically, the longer you've lived, the longer you're likely to live.
Life StatsDiscover what happened since you were born 
Life ChecklistCheck off life experiences and milestones 
Who Was AliveDiscover famous figures alive in any year 
Baby MapWatch babies born around the world in real-time 
Fold Paper to the Moon42 folds. Exponential growth, visualized 
Spend Bill Gates' MoneyCan you spend $100 billion? Enter your date of birth and a life expectancy, and Time Left shows what remains as a live countdown: years, days, hours, minutes and seconds ticking down in real time. Alongside it are the counts that actually land, like how many weekends, summers and full moons you are statistically likely to have left.
It is uncomfortable by design. A number of years is easy to hold at arm's length. Roughly two thousand remaining Saturdays is not, because you know exactly what a Saturday feels like and you can picture two thousand of them running out.
This is the same principle behind Tim Urban's "Your Life in Weeks", which drew a human lifespan as a grid of roughly 4,000 boxes and shaded in the ones already used. Seeing a life as a countable set of units rather than a vague quantity of time changes how it feels, because the brain handles small countable things far better than large abstract ones.
Summers are the sharpest of them. Most people get somewhere between seventy and eighty-five of them, and if you are forty you have used more than half. Phrased as years remaining it sounds like plenty. Phrased as summers it sounds like a list you could write down.
Life expectancy figures are population averages, not predictions about you. They vary substantially by country, sex and era, and they are heavily shaped by things that have already happened rather than things ahead of you. Two specific caveats matter. Averages at birth are dragged down by early-life mortality, so someone who has already reached forty has a higher expected total than the headline figure for their birth year suggests. And individual variation is enormous, so the counter is a rough frame, not a forecast.
The genuinely useful reading is not the total. It is the ratio. Seeing that a weekly habit you keep postponing has around 500 remaining opportunities, or that visiting a parent twice a year for twenty more years is forty visits, is a different kind of information from a countdown.
Life Stats does the same thing backwards, counting what has already happened since you were born. Size of Life zooms out to physical scale, and the Life Checklist asks what you have actually done with the time so far. All free, all local to your browser, nothing stored.
It subtracts your age from a life expectancy figure you choose, then counts down in real time. It is arithmetic on an average, not a prediction about you specifically.
It is a population average and varies considerably by country, sex and era. One important nuance is that averages at birth are pulled down by early-life mortality, so someone who has already reached middle age has a higher expected total than the headline figure suggests.
Because countable units land harder than abstract years. Most people get between seventy and eighty-five summers in total, and phrasing the remainder that way makes it feel like a list rather than a quantity.
No. Everything is calculated in your browser and nothing is sent to a server or saved to an account.
It is meant to be clarifying. The useful number is usually not the total but the ratio, such as how many times you will realistically do a thing you keep postponing.
An essay by Tim Urban that drew a human lifespan as a grid of roughly 4,000 weekly boxes with the used ones shaded in. Time Left applies the same idea as a live countdown.