Reading your timing accuracy score

Timing accuracy measures how close each note's actual onset was to where the reference performance expects it, relative to the piece's tempo. "Rushed" means a note landed early; "dragged" means it landed late — both are shown per note, not just as a single overall percentage.

A small amount of timing variation is normal and even expected — strict metronomic playing isn't the goal for most repertoire, and Piano's tolerance windows are set generously enough that natural expressive timing doesn't get flagged as an error.

What's worth paying attention to is a pattern rather than any single note: if the same passage rushes every time you play it, that's usually a technical difficulty being papered over by speeding through it, rather than a genuine interpretive choice.

The timing chart shows this pattern directly, plotting deviation across the whole piece so a recurring trouble spot is visible as a repeated dip rather than something you'd only notice by feel after enough repetitions to build intuition for it.

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