diff --git a/config/dwmblocks/blocks.def.h b/config/dwmblocks/blocks.def.h
index 6c8cbad6..e4dafb98 100644
--- a/config/dwmblocks/blocks.def.h
+++ b/config/dwmblocks/blocks.def.h
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ static const Block blocks[] = {
 	{"Mem:", "free -h | awk '/^Mem/ { print $3\"/\"$2 }' | sed s/i//g",	30,		0},
 	{"", "date '+%b %d (%a) %I:%M%p'",					5,		0},
   {"Bat:", "cat /sys/class/power_supply/BAT1/capacity", 30, 0},
-  {"Vol:", "pamixer --get-volume-human", 30, 0},
+  {"Vol:", "pamixer --get-volume-human", 5, 0},
 };
 
 //sets delimeter between status commands. NULL character ('\0') means no delimeter.