# Simple timer is not working

**URL:** <https://community.thunkable.com/t/simple-timer-is-not-working/562983>\
**Category:** Questions about Thunkable X\
**Tags:** timer\
**Created:** [April 8, 2020, 12:50pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/simple-timer-is-not-working/562983 "2020-04-08T12:50:02Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![sunethjod](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/da6949/32.png) [@sunethjod](https://community.thunkable.com/u/sunethjod)\
**Post date:** [April 8, 2020, 12:50pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/simple-timer-is-not-working/562983/1 "2020-04-08T12:50:02Z")

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I am new to thunkable and programming in general and i am trying to get a simple countdown timer to work. I used the timer tutorial as a reference but the countdown stops at 9. Timer delay is set to 1 second.

Also I noticed in the timer tutorial it goes lower than 0 as well. How can we stop the countdown at 0?

Please refer the attached blocks image

 ![thunkable_blocks](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/uploads/thunkable/original/3X/f/e/feb39db6bbe7dfdb2bdc71acf4ae04d59fa13492.jpeg)

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**Author:** ![domhnallohanlon](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/community.thunkable.com/domhnallohanlon/32/29554_2.png) [@domhnallohanlon](https://community.thunkable.com/u/domhnallohanlon)\
**Post date:** [April 8, 2020, 1:11pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/simple-timer-is-not-working/562983/2 "2020-04-08T13:11:45Z")

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Hey @sunethjod 👋

Welcome to the community!

You’ll need some blocks to tell your timer when to stop counting too.

Here’s a free template:  
[http://community.thunkable.com/t/working-with-times-and-dates-in-thunkable-x/54077/4?u=domhnallohanlon](http://community.thunkable.com/t/working-with-times-and-dates-in-thunkable-x/54077/4)

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**Author:** ![sunethjod](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/da6949/32.png) [@sunethjod](https://community.thunkable.com/u/sunethjod)\
**Post date:** [April 8, 2020, 1:45pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/simple-timer-is-not-working/562983/3 "2020-04-08T13:45:52Z")

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Thanks. This is the template I followed.

For some reason my countdown does not move past 9 (starts at 10). I even added “round” to app countdown in the section where it suppose to change the label value thinking converting variable value to a number will help but it didn’t work either.

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**Author:** ![jared](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/community.thunkable.com/jared/32/138473_2.png) [@jared](https://community.thunkable.com/u/jared)\
**Post date:** [April 8, 2020, 3:06pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/simple-timer-is-not-working/562983/4 "2020-04-08T15:06:20Z")

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Hey @sunethjod, here is another example of how to construct a timer

> [@How to create a timer that runs in the background or with the app closed completely](http://community.thunkable.com/t/how-to-create-a-timer-that-runs-in-the-background-or-with-the-app-closed-completely/515590):
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> Hey Thunkers! I wanted to create a quick tutorial to demonstrate how to have a timer that runs in the background independent of the app being open or closed. First, here is the visual layout, of course, i doubt yours will be the same as mine exactly but for demonstration purposes, here you go! Step 1: Create 1 stored variable. This guy will do our real “timer” work and keep track of everything we need Because I utilize the variable as a list, I need …

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**Author:** ![ioannis](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/community.thunkable.com/ioannis/32/146956_2.png) [@ioannis](https://community.thunkable.com/u/ioannis)\
**Post date:** [November 8, 2024, 11:39am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/simple-timer-is-not-working/562983/5 "2024-11-08T11:39:14Z")

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