Resting Heart Rate
Enter your resting heart rate, or count it for 15 seconds here. Adult mean is about 70 beats per minute with an SD of 11; endurance athletes often sit near 50.
Sit still for five minutes first. Two fingers on the wrist or neck, count for 30 seconds, double it. Or tap along with your pulse below.
Lower resting heart rate than
50%
of adults. 70 bpm against a mean of 70 with SD 11. Lower normal.
Your RHR
70 bpm
Population avg
70 bpm
Resting heart rate, adults
Lower is generally fitter, so further left on the chart is better
Above the mean but inside the normal range. Regular aerobic exercise typically lowers resting heart rate by 5 to 10 bpm within a few months.
Bands
In context
Elite endurance athletes often sit in the 40s at rest; Miguel Indurain, who won five Tours de France, was reported at 28 bpm. A hummingbird idles at about 250 and a blue whale at around 8 to 10, dropping to 2 on a deep dive. Across mammals the total count of heartbeats per lifetime is surprisingly steady at roughly a billion; humans, at about 2.5 billion, are the exception, which is medicine's doing, not the heart's.
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Look up a value: Is a resting heart rate of 55 good? and other percentile lookups.
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About this test
Enter your resting heart rate, or tap along with your pulse and let the module count. The comparison is a normal curve with mean 70 bpm and SD 11 for adults, from Nanchen (2018) in Heart and the meta-analyses by Zhang et al. (2016, CMAJ) and Jensen et al. (2013, Heart). Lower is better, so the percentile is inverted.
A resting rate of 55 is lower than about 91% of adults; 85 is higher than about 91%. Endurance athletes commonly sit near 50 and sometimes under 40. In Zhang et al. (2016), each 10 bpm of higher resting rate was associated with about 9% higher all-cause mortality.
What is a normal resting heart rate?
60 to 100 bpm is the conventional normal range; the adult mean is about 70 with SD 11. Rates in the 50s are common in fit people. Measure first thing in the morning, lying down, for a number worth comparing.
Is a resting heart rate of 60 good?
Yes. 60 bpm is lower than about 82% of adults (z = -0.91 on mean 70, SD 11) and the usual marker of good aerobic fitness. Regular endurance training lowers resting rate by roughly 5 to 10 bpm over months.
Is 80 bpm at rest too high?
80 is within the normal range but higher than about 82% of adults. Nanchen (2018) and the meta-analyses find rising risk above roughly 80, though much of it is confounded by fitness, weight and smoking. Persistently over 100 at rest is tachycardia and worth a doctor's visit.
Percentiles above come from the same parameters the Resting Heart Rate module uses. See the methodology for how they are calculated.