Speed up Your Reflexes

Want to speed up your reflexes to block that punch or prevent that basketball from hitting you in your face? Well, there's hope!

Steps

Learn a martial art. This will help increase the speed of your reflexes as well as improve body and hand-eye coordination.
Take up a physical sport. Some suggestions:
- Tennis (Very fast paced, Improves reflexes and hand-eye coordination because of the quick reflexes required to hit the ball back in time and on target)
- Soccer (Improves all reflexes, strengthens leg muscles considerably as well as core muscles and arm muscles)
- Fencing (Strengthens leg muscles, speeds up reflexes and increases stamina)
- Basketball (Trains both arms and legs)
- Parkour (Improves hand-eye coordination, speed, leg strength, etc.)

Video games. This may sound daft but can actually be quite important fast paced video games are known to increase hand-eye coordination such as Wii. Doctors have been known to recommend video games to people with bad hand-to-eye coordination.^{[citation needed]}
Take up an activity like juggling or foot bagging (hacky sack).
If none of these appeal to you, you always have the option of playing catch.

Picture a man throwing a ball at you.
Each time the ball leaves his hand watch it get bigger, as it gets closer.
When it is just an inch away dodge it by moving your body to the left or right. Don't just imagine dodging it, you need to actually move.
Try to picture more being thrown at you to improve.

Have fun while you do this! You can even bring in your kids or younger siblings. Let's face it, who doesn't like throwing a pillow at someone else?
Experiment with different things to get your reflexes going. For example, have someone throw a soft pillow at you and see how fast you can block it.
Yes, video games are good. In fact most video games have the option of sensitivity. It has high and slow sensitivity to see what your pace/skill is.
Play fights are always a good way to help reflexes because you are in the situation where you will need to be able to defend yourself. Try not to harm each other otherwise it would be assault and you could get into trouble with the police.

Try to avoid silly reflex testers on the Internet. You can do it for fun but they will not improve your reflexes in any way: Example of "Reflex Tester"