Remember that middle school party game, seven minutes in heaven? I was way too repressed to play it (it involved kissing and closets). Now that I’m too old for such things, I have a new heavenly way to spend seven minutes: on Cozi.

My kids’ school calendar isn’t online yet in a way I can import straight to my Cozi calendar. (If yours is, lucky you!)

I decided I wanted to see how long it would take me to enter everything for my two kids by typing. So I found an online stopwatch, logged into Cozi, and hit “go.”

Seven and a half minutes later, I was done. For the year. Every holiday, half-day, parent-teacher conference day, school play and field trip (at least the ones that are planned) was in there. I even clicked through the months, just to check. Then I took the piece of paper the school sent and dropped it into the recycling bin—one less thing cluttering my desk.

While it would be nice to automatically sync my kids’ calendar with the school one, it took me just a fraction of the time it used to take to write it down in the paper calendar. So I hereby issue a challenge. How quickly can you get the whole school year into Cozi?

I averaged under four minutes per child. Figure out your per-kid average and report back. The winner gets the incredibly prestigious Fingers of Flame award, along with bragging rights and—most important—time to spend on more rewarding things.

--Martha Brockenbrough