# How to time how long a Dynamo script takes to run

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**Created:** [April 3, 2015, 4:52am UTC](https://forum.dynamobim.com/t/how-to-time-how-long-a-dynamo-script-takes-to-run/1288 "2015-04-03T04:52:01Z")\
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Go to View\>Show Console ( or press Ctrl+Shift+Up arrow). In the console you will see the result after every run.

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If you want to time each individual step, there was a recent discussion on that here:

[http://dynamobim.com/forums/topic/dynamo-script-takes-ages-to-run/](http://dynamobim.com/forums/topic/dynamo-script-takes-ages-to-run/)

Another discussion from a while back:

[http://dynamobim.com/forums/topic/dynamo-nodes-vs-code-block-who-is-faster/](http://dynamobim.com/forums/topic/dynamo-nodes-vs-code-block-who-is-faster/)

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