# Routine skipping issue

**URL:** <https://discourse.psychopy.org/t/routine-skipping-issue/45828>\
**Category:** Online experiments\
**Tags:** timing, pavlovia\
**Created:** [October 18, 2025, 11:07pm UTC](https://discourse.psychopy.org/t/routine-skipping-issue/45828 "2025-10-18T23:07:55Z")\
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**Post date:** [October 19, 2025, 8:59am UTC](https://discourse.psychopy.org/t/routine-skipping-issue/45828/3 "2025-10-19T08:59:53Z")

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You don’t seem to have any loops.

If you have 40-50 self-paced routines which are copies rather than a loop, the issue could be due to differences between the routines or memory due to the inefficiency of the code (creating many more objects that needed).

> [@Wakefield's Daily Tips](https://discourse.psychopy.org/t/wakefields-daily-tips/43371/7):
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> Reuse your routines If you are tempted to copy a routine in your experiment because you want another routine to do a similar thing, consider whether you can simply reuse the same routine. Routines can be reused either by adding them again to your flow or by adding a loop to repeat them. The advantages of this are: Your psyexp file will be smaller. Large psyexp files can become unresponsive in Builder. If you want to make a change to the routine, you only have to do it once rather than ch…

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