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Between-days performance of repetitive movements at a self-paced tempo was studied. 60 Ss performed an accuracy task involving successive arm swings at an individually chosen tempo on each of 2 consecutive days. Between-days correlations for Ss' selected tempos of performance and for within- S variance in motor response times indicated that personal tempo is at least a moderately stable attribute.
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Frank L. Smoll (1975) studied this question.
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