Typical sleep statistics? (times awake, efficiency)

[ChrisB]

What are typical sleep numbers for fitbit users (times awake, efficiency)?  I realize that the sleep tracking is not too high tech, but just trying to gauge what is typical for people using the force or flex technology.

[Legs]

After a week, I'm averaging 67% sleep efficiency. 

I am in bed for 8-9 hours and asleep 5.5

[Tmegan]

I only have two days of sleep logged so far but I have 91%

[Uwe]

It all depends on how which setting you're using. On the normal setting I was getting around 98 percent efficiency, which dropped to around 60 percent when I changed it to the sensitive mode. In other words, stating your efficiency without including which setting you're using is like comparing apples to oranges. 

[Burke]

I initially set my sleep to sensitive. My # times awake averaged about 14 and efficiency in the 70 - 80's. My time to fall asleep was between 20 and 45 minutes.

I set it to normal and starting taking melatonin before bed. I average in the high 90% for efficiency and my number of times awake has dropped to between 2 - 8. My time to fall asleep is between 5 - 7 minutes, usually.

My best efficiency rating was a two hour nap on a Sunday. No times awake 🙂

[Mr_Myxlplx]

Normal setting; avg time to fall asleep is 13 mins; avg times awakened is 15; avg sleep time is 6 hrs, 37 mins; avg time awake during the night is 37 mins; avg sleep efficiency is 92%. This is after 30 days of readings.

[Apacapacas]

I am generally in bed for 9-10 hours. It takes me 20-25 minutes to fall asleep. I wake up 6 - 10 times a night and am awake for 10-20 minutes each time I wake up. I average about 6 hours of sleep a night, but I haven't calculated the average efficiency.

[mischa]

I posted this somewhere else in another convo but will post it here as well.

I was very freaked out from the "sleep efficiency" stats.  As far as I knew, I sleep really well.  I always get 7.5 to 8 hrs sleep each night and feel that I wake up 0 to 1 times each night.  

My first 5 days of having the flex it recorded that although I was in bed 8 + hrs per night I was only getting 3-5 hrs of sleep & efficiency was at 46%-73% waking up 6-13 times.   I honestly thought something was wrong with mine and was going to take it back and exchange it for a new one.

Last night I figured out I had it on sensitive mode and have now changed it to "normal" mode.  It said that my sleep was at 96%.   I think that is much more accurate. 

Im not sure how there is such a change.  It could be as simple as I sleep with my arm under my pillow/behind my head and maybe it hits my headboard.  Who knows.  But I dont think that "sensitive mode" is very accurate or realistic at all.

[doppes]

I have my setting on normal.  I am 54 and my average sleep time is 7 hrs, (total time in bed 7.5 hrs)  and my efficiency is 91-97.

And I can usually tell the difference between a 91 and 96. For me, what I notice is not necessarily the times restless (as it can be just changing a postion) but that I have a block of uninterrupted sleep for 2 hrs or more. Those are the mornings I wake up feeling rested. I have been tracking sleep for about a month. 

[Lightsinger]

I have my settings on "normal" and I typically get around 7 hours of sleep, but I'm in bed for eight-eight and a half depending on the schedule.  If I get a 98% I feel more refreshed than if I get a 93%, so I'm pretty sure the "normal" setting is correct for me.  I always get up at least once during the night -- I'm 67 and taking a diuretic -- so I have never had anything higher than 98%.

[LeannG]

FitBit says:
Most people go to bed between 10:20 -11.
Most people fall asleep within 8 - 11 minutes.
Median times awake was 8 - 11 times.
Median time in bed was 7.5 - 8 hours.
Median actual time asleep 7 - 7.5 hours.
This was among FB users.

[BxAnalystAsh]

• normal setting
• average time in bed = 7 to 9 hours
• average time asleep = 6 to 8 hours
• average times awake = 7
• average times restless = 17
• sleep efficiency average = 80%

Does anyone know what "normal" averages are for someone with the normal setting on fitbit? What should we strive to get? 

Also, does your partner moving in the bed effect your fitbit's movement at all?

[BxAnalystAsh]

Nevermind; just saw the post above mine with averages.