A tour of the screen

Open your event and click Live Timing. This is what you’re looking at.

!!-IMAGE-NEEDED-!! — The full timing screen with callout numbers on each region described below.

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Top bar

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The blue hint bar

A one-line prompt telling you what to do next — Step 1: Start Cat 3 Men to begin timing, then Step 2: Enter a plate number or tap a rider. It follows the state of the race, so if you’re not sure what to do, read that line.

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The race board

A panel at the top listing every race in the event and what it’s doing right now — running with a live clock, stopped with a finisher count, or not started.

!!-IMAGE-NEEDED-!! — The race board with three races running and one not started.

• The header says 3 of 5 races running, so you never have to click through tabs to find out what’s live.
• Start or stop any race from here, without leaving the one you’re recording into.
• Tap a race name to switch to it. The row you’re recording into is badged recording, and defers to the big buttons below rather than offering a second set.

It collapses, and starts collapsed when the event has only one race.

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Start / Pause / Stop

Big buttons for the race you’re recording into, sized for cold hands.

• START RACE — opens the clock. The label underneath tells you what pressing it actually does to the field: all 47 riders go on course, or riders go on course as you check them in.
• Pause / Resume — labelled Freeze clock or Pause entries depending on how the timer is set. Freezing stops everyone’s elapsed time (a real course hold); pausing entries just stops recording while the clock runs on.
• STOP — ends the race. You can still fix everything afterwards.
• Set the start time — the small button under the grid. Puts the start at a time you type off the clock instead of the moment you press a button, for a race that went while nobody was at the screen. Once a race is running the same button reads Correct the start time.

Pressing START on a race that’s already running says RESTART RACE instead — only do that if you fired the previous start by mistake, because it invalidates the finishes already recorded against the old clock. If the start merely happened earlier than you pressed it, use Correct the start time instead: that keeps every finish and re-times them. Interval-start and dual-slalom races don’t show this grid; their starts happen per rider or per lane.

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The big number box

The single most important control. Type a bib, press Enter.

• It stays focused, so you don’t have to click it before typing.
• As you type, matching riders appear as chips — tap one instead of finishing the number.
• There’s an on-screen digit pad for gloved hands and touchscreens.
• An UNDO button sits next to it. One tap reverses your last recording.

What Enter does depends on your recording point — finish, lap, split, or check-in. See Recording points.

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On course

Riders who’ve started but not finished, sorted by elapsed time. This is your “who’s still out there” list, and at the end of a race it’s your DNF list.

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Registered riders

The full roster for the selected race. Tap any name to record them right now — what you reach for when a bib is unreadable or caked in mud. There’s a search box, and the list collapses automatically for big fields so the timing controls stay above the fold.

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Any result row

Tap a row to open its menu: manual time, DNF/DNS/DSQ, add a note, record a split, void a lap, delete. What you see depends on your access level. → Corrections

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Timer setup

One button below the rider lists opens Timer setup — every setting for this timer, in one panel with three sections.

!!-IMAGE-NEEDED-!! — The Timer setup panel open on the “How I am timing” section.

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Setting up several races at once

Five criterium categories usually want identical settings, and doing them one at a time is how the fourth ends up different. Tick as many races as you like — or All races — and set them together. Two rules keep that safe:

• Only what you change gets written. Anything you don’t touch is left exactly as it is on each race. Selecting five races and editing the lap count won’t flatten their timing points.
• Where the selected races disagree, the field shows mixed and stays that way until you set it. Nothing picks a value on your behalf.

Fields you have changed are badged will change, so you can see what’s about to be written before you press save — which names its target: Save to 5 races. Changing the selection mid-edit keeps your pending changes and applies them to whatever is selected when you save. Untouched fields re-read from the new selection. There’s also …and the default for any race added later, which writes the same settings to the fallback new races inherit. Anything that has to talk to a device — the RFID watcher, laser boxes — stays on the timing screen itself, because it needs the machine you’re standing at.

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