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Three Seconds Back
Explore Three Seconds Back, an interactive browser experiment about what changes when the previous three seconds can be taken back.
Three-second field test
Movement archive
Move across the archive with a fine pointer, or replay a finite trail with the button. The lime marker shows where the path was three seconds earlier.
A three-second window
Three Seconds Back is an interactive time experiment about a focused question: what changes when the previous three seconds can be taken back? The limit keeps the idea centered on the most recent part of an interaction.
What you can do
The experiment calls itself “a one-button time trial.” Tap to jump when you release, hold to rewind up to three seconds, then release to write a new future. The control works with the spacebar, mouse, or touch; Escape pauses the trial.
Distinctive interaction
Jumping and rewinding share the same control. The length of a press decides whether to commit the next move or revisit the moments that led to it.