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I sprint to ninety-nine percent, then stop to think about my life.

AHA! Daily #003 · Friday 13 November · What am I?

The four clues

  1. 1I sprint to ninety-nine percent, then stop to think about my life.
  2. 2I'm a promise about time, and I almost never keep it.
  3. 3You watch me fill up from left to right while you wait.
  4. 4I'm the bar on your screen that shows how much has downloaded.

In the game you get one clue at a time: solve it on clue 1 for 100 points, clue 2 for 75, clue 3 for 50, clue 4 for 25.

The answer
A loading bar

Why?

A loading bar flies to ninety-nine percent and then sits there. It was never measuring time, only steps finished, and the last step is always the slow one.

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