What's a good swim time?

Every page below answers one question with measured data rather than opinion: for a swimmer of this age and gender, in this event, what is a typical time — and what does it take to be fast?

Each shows the full distribution (median, top 25%, top 10%, top 1%) from real recorded SCY results, the USA Swimming B through AAAA motivational cuts on the same scale, and the number of swimmers the numbers are drawn from. Enter a time and it tells you the percentile.

Looking for the official cut times instead? See the full USA Swimming time standards.

8-year-olds

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9-year-olds

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10-year-olds

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11-year-olds

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12-year-olds

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13-year-olds

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14-year-olds

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15-year-olds

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16-year-olds

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17-year-olds

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18-year-olds

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