Swimming API

Swimming maths as an API, computed locally and deterministically — the SWOLF, threshold-pace and per-100 m numbers a swimmer, coach or training app works a set out with. The swolf endpoint scores stroke efficiency for one length: SWOLF (swim + golf) = the strokes taken plus the seconds taken, and like golf lower is better — gliding further per stroke or swimming faster both cut it, so a 25 m length in 18 strokes and 30 s is a SWOLF of 48. Because it is pool-length and stroke dependent, the score is normalized to 25 m so lengths in different pools compare. The css endpoint computes Critical Swim Speed, the swimmer's threshold pace, from two all-out time trials: CSS = (distance1 − distance2) ÷ (time1 − time2) — the classic 400 m and 200 m test, where 6:00 and 2:50 give about 1.05 m/s, a 1:35 / 100 m threshold; training paces are then set as offsets from CSS, the swimmer's equivalent of a runner's threshold or an erg's 2 k pace. The pace endpoint gives speed and the per-100 m pace swimmers actually quote (time ÷ distance × 100), so 100 m in 1:30 is a 1:30 / 100 m pace at 1.11 m/s. Everything is computed locally and deterministically, so it is instant and private. Ideal for swim-training and coaching tools, lap-tracker and triathlon apps, and fitness calculators. Pure local computation — no key, no third-party service, instant. 3 compute endpoints. For running pace use a pace API; for indoor rowing a rowing API.