Before you fall in love with a mower, do ten minutes of arithmetic. These three tools run entirely in your browser — nothing you type is sent anywhere — and each one shows its math so you can check our work with a pocket calculator.

  • Yard size calculator — your lawn’s dimensions in, a mower class, deck range, and battery energy budget out. The best first step in the whole site.
  • Battery runtime calculator — volts × amp-hours in, realistic runtime estimates for light, normal, and thick grass out.
  • Deck passes calculator — how many passes a given deck will take across your lawn, and roughly how long the whole job runs.

The numbers from these tools feed straight into the guides: yard-size results map to the yard-size guides, runtime results to the battery education hub, and pass counts to the deck-size guide. And when the arithmetic is done, the shortlists are ready: best cordless lawn mowers for every yard size, or best robot mowers if the pass count convinced you to stop pushing altogether.

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