diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index b716f8f..be01d2e 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 ## HEAD (unreleased)
 
+- Reduce timeout to 1 second (https://github.com/zombocom/dead_end/pull/79)
 - Logically consecutive lines (such as chained methods are now joined) (https://github.com/zombocom/dead_end/pull/78)
 - Output improvement for cases where the only line is an single `end` (https://github.com/zombocom/dead_end/pull/78)
 
diff --git a/lib/dead_end/internals.rb b/lib/dead_end/internals.rb
index 6a79845..8dd1baf 100644
--- a/lib/dead_end/internals.rb
+++ b/lib/dead_end/internals.rb
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@
 module DeadEnd
   class Error < StandardError; end
   SEARCH_SOURCE_ON_ERROR_DEFAULT = true
-  TIMEOUT_DEFAULT = ENV.fetch("DEAD_END_TIMEOUT", 5).to_i
+  TIMEOUT_DEFAULT = ENV.fetch("DEAD_END_TIMEOUT", 1).to_i
 
   def self.handle_error(e, search_source_on_error: SEARCH_SOURCE_ON_ERROR_DEFAULT)
     raise e unless e.message.include?("end-of-input")
diff --git a/spec/integration/improvement_regression_spec.rb b/spec/integration/improvement_regression_spec.rb
index 6934756..07423b5 100644
--- a/spec/integration/improvement_regression_spec.rb
+++ b/spec/integration/improvement_regression_spec.rb
@@ -4,6 +4,25 @@
 
 module DeadEnd
   RSpec.describe "Library only integration to test regressions and improvements" do
+    it "returns good results on routes.rb" do
+      source = fixtures_dir.join("routes.rb.txt").read
+
+      io = StringIO.new
+      DeadEnd.call(
+        io: io,
+        source: source,
+        filename: "none"
+      )
+
+      expect(io.string).to include(<<~'EOM'.indent(4))
+           1  Rails.application.routes.draw do
+        ❯ 113    namespace :admin do
+        ❯ 116    match "/foobar(*path)", via: :all, to: redirect { |_params, req|
+        ❯ 120    }
+          121  end
+      EOM
+    end
+
     it "handles multi-line-methods issues/64" do
       source = fixtures_dir.join("webmock.rb.txt").read
 
diff --git a/spec/perf/perf_spec.rb b/spec/perf/perf_spec.rb
deleted file mode 100644
index 221d5ba..0000000
--- a/spec/perf/perf_spec.rb
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,31 +0,0 @@
-# frozen_string_literal: true
-
-require_relative "../spec_helper"
-require "benchmark"
-
-module DeadEnd
-  RSpec.describe "perf" do
-    it "doesnt timeout" do
-      source = fixtures_dir.join("routes.rb.txt").read
-
-      io = StringIO.new
-      bench = Benchmark.measure do
-        DeadEnd.call(
-          io: io,
-          source: source,
-          filename: "none"
-        )
-      end
-
-      expect(io.string).to include(<<~'EOM'.indent(4))
-           1  Rails.application.routes.draw do
-        ❯ 113    namespace :admin do
-        ❯ 116    match "/foobar(*path)", via: :all, to: redirect { |_params, req|
-        ❯ 120    }
-          121  end
-      EOM
-
-      expect(bench.real).to be < 1 # second
-    end
-  end
-end