Does listening to faster music correlate to working faster?

[SOnerd]

Hello.

I've been grinding out my Invasives binder for quite a while now. As I begin to near the end of my work before my next invitational, I am working on putting distribution maps for each species. This is very mundane, repetitive work. I was listening to music while working and I had an idea:

How does listening to music at 2x speed while studying (especially doing the same thing over and over again) affect my speed? I decided to test it out.

I did 5 invertebrate species worth of distribution maps with normal music on 1x speed. It took me 11:20 (11 mins 20 secs). Then, I did 5 more with 2x speed music and it only took me 9:43. (Then, I did 5 without music and it took me 6:55, but that is very biased because I happened to be at the part of the list with the more obscure species that do not have good distribution maps (so I ended up only having 1-2 maps per species, which made it a lot faster).)

So, by simply putting the music on a faster speed, I can increase my working speed by almost 2 minutes per 5 species. Thoughts? I suggest that you all try it sometime when you are doing mudane work. If you do try it, post your findings. Remember to eliminate bias by keeping the songs the same and the nature of the task the same.

[JasperKota]

Wow that's really interesting. I'll have to try that out while working on invasives.

[Fibonacci924]

I'll try it out with math homework.

[sciolyFTW_aku]

Depends on if the song has words or not. If it does, chances are that you will be less inclined to focus and actually study. But, if it's a classical piece, chances are that you would get a bit of an adrenaline rush, and work faster.

[Clematis]

Good luck on the invasive binder! I've noticed similar effects when creating my binder for Rocks and Minerals with songs with lyrics. Although sometimes it fails if I'm too distracted by the song, I get myself hyped up with adrenaline by listening to fast paced music. I go into cram/panic mode I guess, which results in higher work ethic and faster results, but I also find that my quality decreases, so I only try to do that if I'm running out of time.