https://matteocampagna.com/en/registry/technique/release-is-not-a-reaction-to-the-clicker Changes to this claim in Matteo Campagna's evidence registry: its status, its year-by-year history, revisions of the page. en-gb https://matteocampagna.com/en/registry/technique/release-is-not-a-reaction-to-the-clickerThe idea rests on a single study, which compares two times: in nine national-level archers the interval between the clicker going off and the string leaving the fingers was shorter than their reaction time to a sound, so the movement must already have been under way when the click came. The weak point is exactly there, because with the simpler reaction task two archers out of nine were not faster, and the result holds only against the task that resembles shooting more closely. The rest of the bibliography measures how long that interval lasts, not what it is: between 140 and 180 thousandths of a second in two different laboratories, and about 160 thousandths in thirty-nine elite archers, with very little variation from person to person. Figures that close to a simple reaction time pull the other way, even though eight people who do not shoot, using a simulated draw, take about twice as long to release after a visual signal. Nobody has yet repeated the comparison that matters, on the same archers and with the sound of the click.claim:rilascio-non-reazione-clicker:revision:2026-08-29:2Sat, 29 Aug 2026 08:00:00 GMT https://matteocampagna.com/en/registry/technique/release-is-not-a-reaction-to-the-clicker#storiaA point of comparison arrives from outside archery: eight people who have never shot, using a simulated draw, take an average of 318 thousandths of a second to release the force after a visual signal. That is about double the intervals measured between clicker and release in archers, which makes it a little harder to read those 140 to 180 thousandths as an ordinary reaction. But the signal is visual and the click is a sound, which is usually processed faster, and nobody has yet measured both on the same archers: the status stays reported.claim:rilascio-non-reazione-clicker:history_entry:2026-08-19:2023Wed, 19 Aug 2026 08:00:00 GMT https://matteocampagna.com/en/registry/technique/release-is-not-a-reaction-to-the-clickerclaim:rilascio-non-reazione-clicker:new_claim:2026-06-22:riportatoMon, 22 Jun 2026 08:00:00 GMT