How it works
A 180 BPM metronome keeps up with a Viennese waltz at its quickest: Wikipedia's article on the dance puts it at about 180 beats a minute.
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Start
Tap the pad, or press Space. Four dots step through the bar, the larger first dot on the higher click. Tap again and it stops.
Change the tempo
Tap the number under the pad for a different tempo; minus and plus move it by one. For three beats to a bar, type 180 into this site's 3/4 metronome: a waltz bar then passes once a second.
Questions and answers
Is 180 BPM presto?
Yes, and nothing else. In Wikipedia's list of tempo markings Presto, very fast, covers 168 to 200, while Vivace and Vivacissimo both stop at 176 and Prestissimo starts at 200. The list describes its figures as very rough approximations for 4/4.
Is 180 BPM a Viennese waltz tempo?
The top of the range. World DanceSport Federation Rule E.3.2 (2026) sets the Viennese waltz at 58 to 60 bars a minute and names no beat. Sixty bars of a waltz's three beats are 180, our sum; fifty-eight are 174.
What is double time in drill?
A marching rate of 180 paces to the minute. The British Army's Drill Manual (2017) lists it beside slow time at 65 and quick time at 116; the Royal Navy's, the Canadian forces' and the Australian Army's drill books give double time the same 180.
Why do wind-up metronomes go from 176 to 184?
The top of the usual scale moves in eights. Wikipedia's Metronome article lists the most common arrangement as 152, 160, 168, 176, 184, 192, 200 and 208 at that end, so 180 falls between two notches. This pad needs no notch.
Why can't I hear the metronome?
Three clicks a second are hard to miss, so silence usually means the phone: its ring switch, its volume, or Bluetooth sending the click to a speaker elsewhere. The pad needs none of them to show the beat, four dots to the bar.