Fastest Finger First

Fastest Finger First is a round that is played on a lot of versions of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? to grant a contestant the right to play the main game.

Rules
A group of ten contestants are given a question asking them to put the four choices in the correct order. On some early versions, it was a multiple choice questions like the questions in the main game. The contestant who get the order right in the fastest time wins and earns the right to play the main game.

If two or more contestants get the correct order in the same fastest time, they will compete again in another Fastest Finger round to break the tie. If none of the contestants get the order right, they will all be asked another Fastest Finger Question. The pattern will repeat until they end up with one single winner.

History
When the UK version premiered, the Fastest Finger First originally consisted of a multiple choice question and the contestant who locks in the right answer in the fastest time wins. They soon converted to putting the four choices in the correct order and kept it that way until they retired the Fastest Finger First in 2010.

The original primetime U.S. version had Fastest Finger in the "place 4 in order" format for its entire run, but was dropped altogether in 2002 when the show went into syndication. It was temporarily brought back for Super Millionaire and the 10th Anniversary Primetime Celebration.

Trivia

 * Shannon McGehee, in 0.87 seconds, holds the world record for answering a Fastest Finger Question in the quickest time. She is also the first contestant worldwide to do so in under 1 second in a "place 4 in order" question.