25m Swim Times By Age And Ability

What is a good 25m swim time?

A good 25m time is 00:19 for men and 00:24 for women. These are average times across all ages. Compare your 25m time by age and ability below.

Updated for 2026. Our 25m swim time standards are based on 18,757 swimming results submitted by 9,817 Swimming Level users from 2021 to 2026. Data and sources

Time
100m
100yd

Swimming Level	Male	Female
Beginner	00:31	00:42
Novice	00:24	00:32
Intermediate	00:19	00:24
Advanced	00:15	00:18
Elite	00:12	00:14

Time: Finish time for the full distance (mm:ss or hh:mm:ss).

Swimming Level	Male	Female
Beginner	02:05.8	02:47.5
Novice	01:36.4	02:06.1
Intermediate	01:14.3	01:35.4
Advanced	00:58.2	01:13.4
Elite	00:46.8	00:57.9

100m: Average pace per 100 metres, shown in minutes and seconds (mm:ss.s).

Swimming Level	Male	Female
Beginner	01:55.1	02:33.2
Novice	01:28.1	01:55.3
Intermediate	01:07.9	01:27.2
Advanced	00:53.3	01:07.1
Elite	00:42.8	00:53.0

100yd: Average pace per 100 yards, shown in minutes and seconds (mm:ss.s).

Male 25m Swimming Times

A good 25m time is 19 for men. This is the average time across all ages.

Age	Beginner	Novice	Intermediate	Advanced	Elite
10	00:34	00:26	00:20	00:16	00:13
15	00:34	00:26	00:20	00:16	00:13
20	00:34	00:26	00:20	00:16	00:13
25	00:34	00:26	00:20	00:16	00:13
30	00:32	00:24	00:19	00:15	00:12
35	00:33	00:25	00:19	00:15	00:12
40	00:34	00:26	00:20	00:16	00:13
45	00:35	00:27	00:21	00:16	00:13
50	00:36	00:27	00:21	00:16	00:13
55	00:36	00:28	00:21	00:17	00:14
60	00:37	00:28	00:22	00:17	00:14
65	00:39	00:30	00:23	00:18	00:14
70	00:40	00:31	00:24	00:19	00:15
75	00:42	00:32	00:25	00:19	00:16
80	00:45	00:35	00:27	00:21	00:17
85	00:49	00:38	00:29	00:23	00:18
90	00:55	00:42	00:33	00:26	00:21

Time: Finish time for the full distance (mm:ss or hh:mm:ss).

Age	Beginner	Novice	Intermediate	Advanced	Elite
10	02:14.4	01:42.9	01:19.3	01:02.2	00:50.0
15	02:14.4	01:42.9	01:19.3	01:02.2	00:50.0
20	02:14.4	01:42.9	01:19.3	01:02.2	00:50.0
25	02:14.4	01:42.9	01:19.3	01:02.2	00:50.0
30	02:08.0	01:38.0	01:15.5	00:59.2	00:47.6
35	02:11.9	01:41.0	01:17.9	01:01.1	00:49.1
40	02:17.7	01:45.4	01:21.3	01:03.7	00:51.2
45	02:20.9	01:47.9	01:23.2	01:05.2	00:52.4
50	02:22.3	01:49.0	01:24.0	01:05.9	00:53.0
55	02:25.5	01:51.4	01:25.9	01:07.3	00:54.1
60	02:28.7	01:53.9	01:27.8	01:08.8	00:55.3
65	02:34.5	01:58.3	01:31.2	01:11.5	00:57.5
70	02:41.2	02:03.4	01:35.1	01:14.6	01:00.0
75	02:48.4	02:08.9	01:39.4	01:17.9	01:02.7
80	03:01.6	02:19.1	01:47.2	01:24.0	01:07.6
85	03:17.3	02:31.1	01:56.4	01:31.3	01:13.4
90	03:41.0	02:49.3	02:10.5	01:42.3	01:22.3

100m: Average pace per 100 metres, shown in minutes and seconds (mm:ss.s).

Age	Beginner	Novice	Intermediate	Advanced	Elite
10	02:02.9	01:34.1	01:12.5	00:56.9	00:45.7
15	02:02.9	01:34.1	01:12.5	00:56.9	00:45.7
20	02:02.9	01:34.1	01:12.5	00:56.9	00:45.7
25	02:02.9	01:34.1	01:12.5	00:56.9	00:45.7
30	01:57.0	01:29.6	01:09.1	00:54.2	00:43.5
35	02:00.6	01:32.4	01:11.2	00:55.8	00:44.9
40	02:05.9	01:36.4	01:14.3	00:58.3	00:46.8
45	02:08.9	01:38.7	01:16.1	00:59.6	00:48.0
50	02:10.2	01:39.7	01:16.8	01:00.2	00:48.4
55	02:13.0	01:41.9	01:18.5	01:01.6	00:49.5
60	02:15.9	01:44.1	01:20.2	01:02.9	00:50.6
65	02:21.3	01:48.2	01:23.4	01:05.4	00:52.6
70	02:27.4	01:52.9	01:27.0	01:08.2	00:54.9
75	02:34.0	01:57.9	01:30.9	01:11.3	00:57.3
80	02:46.0	02:07.2	01:38.0	01:16.9	01:01.8
85	03:00.4	02:18.1	01:46.5	01:23.5	01:07.1
90	03:22.1	02:34.8	01:59.3	01:33.5	01:15.2

100yd: Average pace per 100 yards, shown in minutes and seconds (mm:ss.s).

Female 25m Swimming Times

A good 25m time is 24 for women. This is the average time across all ages.

Average 25m swim time by age and ability

Time
100m
100yd

Age	Beginner	Novice	Intermediate	Advanced	Elite
10	00:42	00:32	00:24	00:18	00:14
15	00:42	00:32	00:24	00:18	00:14
20	00:42	00:32	00:24	00:18	00:14
25	00:43	00:33	00:25	00:19	00:15
30	00:45	00:34	00:26	00:20	00:16
35	00:45	00:34	00:26	00:20	00:16
40	00:47	00:35	00:27	00:21	00:16
45	00:47	00:36	00:27	00:21	00:16
50	00:48	00:36	00:27	00:21	00:17
55	00:50	00:37	00:28	00:22	00:17
60	00:51	00:38	00:29	00:22	00:18
65	00:52	00:39	00:30	00:23	00:18
70	00:54	00:41	00:31	00:24	00:19
75	00:58	00:44	00:33	00:25	00:20
80	01:03	00:48	00:36	00:28	00:22
85	01:09	00:52	00:39	00:30	00:24
90	01:17	00:58	00:44	00:34	00:27

Time: Finish time for the full distance (mm:ss or hh:mm:ss).

Age	Beginner	Novice	Intermediate	Advanced	Elite
10	02:47.5	02:06.1	01:35.4	01:13.4	00:57.9
15	02:47.5	02:06.1	01:35.4	01:13.4	00:57.9
20	02:47.5	02:06.1	01:35.4	01:13.4	00:57.9
25	02:52.8	02:10.0	01:38.4	01:15.7	00:59.8
30	02:59.6	02:15.2	01:42.3	01:18.7	01:02.1
35	03:01.8	02:16.8	01:43.5	01:19.6	01:02.9
40	03:08.5	02:21.9	01:47.3	01:22.6	01:05.2
45	03:09.4	02:22.6	01:47.8	01:23.0	01:05.5
50	03:12.8	02:25.1	01:49.7	01:24.4	01:06.7
55	03:19.1	02:29.8	01:53.3	01:27.2	01:08.8
60	03:23.4	02:33.0	01:55.8	01:29.1	01:10.3
65	03:28.0	02:36.6	01:58.4	01:31.1	01:12.0
70	03:37.3	02:43.5	02:03.7	01:35.2	01:15.2
75	03:51.7	02:54.4	02:11.9	01:41.5	01:20.1
80	04:13.9	03:11.1	02:24.6	01:51.2	01:27.8
85	04:34.4	03:26.5	02:36.2	02:00.2	01:34.9
90	05:09.4	03:52.8	02:56.1	02:15.5	01:47.0

100m: Average pace per 100 metres, shown in minutes and seconds (mm:ss.s).

Age	Beginner	Novice	Intermediate	Advanced	Elite
10	02:33.2	01:55.3	01:27.2	01:07.1	00:53.0
15	02:33.2	01:55.3	01:27.2	01:07.1	00:53.0
20	02:33.2	01:55.3	01:27.2	01:07.1	00:53.0
25	02:38.0	01:58.9	01:30.0	01:09.2	00:54.6
30	02:44.3	02:03.6	01:33.5	01:12.0	00:56.8
35	02:46.2	02:05.1	01:34.6	01:12.8	00:57.5
40	02:52.4	02:09.7	01:38.2	01:15.5	00:59.6
45	02:53.2	02:10.4	01:38.6	01:15.9	00:59.9
50	02:56.3	02:12.7	01:40.4	01:17.2	01:01.0
55	03:02.0	02:17.0	01:43.6	01:19.7	01:03.0
60	03:05.9	02:19.9	01:45.9	01:21.5	01:04.3
65	03:10.2	02:23.2	01:48.3	01:23.3	01:05.8
70	03:18.7	02:29.5	01:53.1	01:27.0	01:08.7
75	03:31.8	02:39.4	02:00.6	01:32.8	01:13.3
80	03:52.2	02:54.8	02:12.2	01:41.7	01:20.3
85	04:10.9	03:08.8	02:22.8	01:49.9	01:26.8
90	04:42.9	03:32.9	02:41.1	02:03.9	01:37.8

100yd: Average pace per 100 yards, shown in minutes and seconds (mm:ss.s).

Levels compare performances in this model; Average is the Intermediate (50th-percentile) standard. What the levels mean.

Data behind the 25m swim time standards

Swimming Level analysed 4,215 qualifying results from 18,757 community results submitted by 9,817 Swimming Level users from 2021 to 2026 to produce our 25m swim time standards. We will continue to update them as more community data becomes available. See our standards timeline.

Community results	18,757
Community users	9,817
Qualifying results	4,215
Male results	3,293
Female results	922
Data start	30 December 2021
Data cutoff	5 March 2026
Model generated	2 October 2026

Qualifying results are retained after checks for implausible data, duplicates, and unusual or automated submission patterns. Learn more about qualifying results.