Use the Colorado Swimming Conversion Calculator to factor times or use the factoring found under all tabs in My Account > My Meet Results.
Conversion for non-USA Swimming teams
Yards to/from SC Meters
The default factor for converting Yards to and from SC Meters is provided as 1.11.
SC Meters to/from LC Meters
The straight conversion factor from SCM to LCM regardless of the stroke provides as .02 or 2%.
Long Distance (LD) Conversion Yards to/from Meters
500 Yards to/from 400 Meters factor = .875
1000 Yards to/from 800 Meters factor = .875
1650 Yards to/from 1500 Meters factor = .997
Conversion for USA Swimming Teams
Conversion Formula
Course to convert from | Course to convert to | Formula |
Short Course Yard (SCY) | LCM or SCM | hsecs * fFactor +fIncre |
Long Course Meter (LCM) | SCY or SCM | (hsec - fIncre)/fFactor |
Short Course Meter (SCM) | SCY | hsecs/fFactor |
Short Course Meter (SCM) | LCM | hsecs + fIncre |
fFactor
Conversion Cases | fFactor |
LCM to SCM | 1.0 |
LCM to/from SCY distance 400/800 to/from 500/1000 | 0.8925 |
LCM to/from SCY distance 1500 to/from 1650 | 1.02 |
All Other Cases | 1.11 |
fIncre
Conversion Cases | fIncre | |
Stroke is Medley and LCM to/from SCY distance 400 to/from 500 | 640 | |
Stroke is not Medley and LCM to/from SCY distance > 200 | 0 | |
SCY to/from SCM | 0 | |
LCM to/from SCM | Distance | fIncre |
500/400 | 640 | |
800/1000 | 1280 | |
1500/1650 | 2400 | |
All other cases | Distance | fIncre |
50 | incre | |
100 | 2*incre | |
200 | 4*incre | |
400 | 8*incre | |
Others | 0 |
incre
Stroke | incre |
Butterfly | 70 |
Back | 60 |
Breast | 100 |
Free | 80 |
Ind. Medley | 80 |