Split Second Timing is the debut album led by saxophonist Craig Handy which was recorded in 1991 and became the first release on the Arabesque label the following year.

[1][2] The AllMusic review by Scott Yanow said "Tenor saxophonist Craig Handy's debut as a leader is an impressive effort.

The advanced hard bop music has fine arrangements by Handy, who also contributed five of the nine pieces.

Here was a charging, explosive, up to the minute group that didn't seem content to simply rehash the past.

Bringing forward the mainstream with a tough, two-feet on the ground approach, Split-Second Timing served in part as an antidote to much of the conventionalism of the '80s—where, for some, it seemed as if musicians were stuck in a time warp with too much rehashing of the Miles Davis/Wayne Shorter band of the '60s.