How fast can an average human shift, race car driver and racing automatic shift?

I timed my shifting at .34-.42 seconds from 1st to 2nd .40-.50 from 2nd-3rd when I do it quickly with a STS, metal link/ cage bushings and a Stage4 Competition brand clutch. (that is fully engaging clutch but, I can shift it with 3/4 clutch travel but it is slower when doing 0-60s)

Post your shifting times and what tranny mods do you have!

 

So I'm curious... how exactly are you measuring your shifting times?

 

not so much how, but WHY? its a waste of time, if you shift fast thats good for you, it takes more than fast shifting to win a race.

 

park the car with engine off and hold a stopwatch with your left hand and time your shift. Or have a friend time it while your driving. (he should stop it when you let go of the clutch.)

A split second could mean a lot in racing...

 

...okay...shifting is important, but not to the point where tenths and hundreths of seconds count. in drag racing, it is more about properly letting out the clutch and getting the car to hook up then then wasting time practicing shifting in a parked car...

also, shifting in a parked car to time it doesn't mean diddly. shifting while driving gets harder under situations like hard cornering accelerating and braking. like going about 50 mph around a freeway onramp loop and shifting from 2nd to 3rd. it is a lot harder because you are shifting against the centripical force pushing you outwards.

overtime, if you drive a manual transmission on a regular basis, you just get better and better. ii'm pretty sure most competant people who have driven stick on a daily basis for a couple of years shift in less than a second.

also, don't break your shifting mechanism or shift gates when you practice ramming your shifter around. don't focus on speed, just smoothness and efficiency.

 

I have been driving stick since I was 15 in the Philippines when I got my "fixed" license...

I mostly drive on up hills and down hills everyday since I live at the mountains and go to my college down the bay...

So I guess I have been driving stick for some time now.

 

It just doesnt work the way you said that you did it.

Sitting still is different.
Pressing a bottun on a stopwatch to coincide with when you press your foot and then move the lever then press the stopwatch is so in accurate that its pointless.

 

You are better off doing brain and reaction timing exercises instead

 

FTW

 

yeah, reaction time is important, going down the interstate going around 70 mph, this jerk in an altima cut me off, so i hit the brakes while downshifting from fifth to third for added stopping power.

it is also important to pay very close attention to the best speed and gear match for varrying degrees of acceleration.

 

Fastest I've heard of.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IslsDIiywdU

this guy can shift

 

sounds like power shifting or as some puts it speed shifting

 

Aryton Senna driving the then new NSX. The heel-toeing he does is incredible. That's shifting . . .

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yAwJsOECGBU