Show HN: Analog Watch

al_borland

This could be good for kids to learn how to read analog clocks. I remember this being something we did in school as kids... racing to read a clock faster than the other kid, to move on to the next section of an obstacle course. From what I understand that is becoming a lost skill.

dwa3592

would be nice if the results also showed the analog watch positions.

ventana

This fun game just made me realize that actually using analog watch does not require converting the time to HH:MM. I've been using analog watch for years, my Apple Watch face is set to analog and, apparently, I read the time as "it's almost 11", but never as "it's 10:58".

austinthetaco

my only issue is that it cares if you are off by 1 minute, meanwhile in the real world a lot of analog clocks have continuously moving minutes and a lot of others have ticking minutes (they only move right at the minute mark).

cjfeda

This was fun! Good call on directing to the free play before jumping into the daily challenge. I was disappointed when I realized there was no leader board for the daily challenge.

great_psy

Could this be extended to lean into teaching quantum physics ? Include seconds/ sub seconds hand in the watch, and people will realize the watch face time + time it takes to read will never equal the watch face time. You can know the exact time, by looking at the analog watch face, or you can measure it (convert it) but it will not be the same anymore.

glitchc

The daily challenge doesn't seem to work for me. 58 seconds for the second clock is correct yet it said I was just close.

cl3misch

It seems to not support 24h? When I see e.g. 17:35 I want to type 17:35 instead of 5:35. Probably because I very seldomly see 5:35 in real life! Interesting observation by itself, but slightly annoying that I have to convert to 12h for this game.

jespinel

Well, that was harder than expected.

all2

To OP, you should look into Barbara Arrowsmith-Young's clock exercises. They start with a single hand, and add more and more hands until the units get out into centuries or millennia.

kaizenb

nice! analog.watch Daily Challenge 2026-07-09 Score: 8,946 Time: 39.2s

meshweaver

Fun game! Definitely needed the practice rounds. Would love to see a comparison of some sort of how well everyone else did. analog.watch Daily Challenge 2026-07-09 Score: 22,020 Time: 32.0s

yegle

Hmm, 12AM/PM watch faces don't register 0 as the hour.

pimlottc

Correcting your previously-entered time by selecting the hour and tapping a different number doesn’t work. It initially shows the hour selected but then overwrites the right-most component (eg seconds)

toxik

Off topic but it annoys me so much that Apple decided not to make the hands see-through as they pass the day window on the face. Like even the actual analog clocks do this with a little window on the hand?

danteocualesjr

you’ve basically turned ‘can you read an analog face?’ into a little daily ego check. nice.

fusslo

For some reason this brings back memories of looking for clocks or strangers with a watch while walking around a department store or mall I mustve forgotten how common 'public' clocks used to be. Now... not even the clock on my local town hall is correct

stets

Ha! Got a good laugh. Two suggestions: - Let me enter the time with my keyboard - Make your input numpad match a PC keyboard's numpad, not a phone's

jacknews

lol, this completely misses the point of analogue watches or clocks. It should be called 'keypad data entry game' instead. The point of an analogue clock is that it gives you an instant sense of the rough time at a glance. I can immediately see it's 'about half past' or 'only a few minutes left until the meeting at 11' or whatever.