fluid supplied within inner tub 12 given that inner tub 12 is provided with at least the plurality of holes 15 the water or water detergent can flow between the inner and outer tubs 12 and 25 a pump 30 see fig1 and 3 is provided to control the level of washing fluid within machine 2 particularly the draining of the fluid from outer tub 25 as will be detailed more fully below the present invention is particularly directed to the manner in which pump 30 is operated so as to reduce cycling times the general manner in which the automatic washing machine 2 of fig1 operates is well known in the art and is not considered an aspect of the present invention therefore a full description of its operation will not be described here however for the sake of completeness automatic washing machine 2 is also shown to include an upper cover 42 that provides access to an area for adding detergent softeners and the like in addition an upper control panel 45 including an lcd display screen 50 is provided for manually establishing a desired washing operation in the preferred embodiment shown display 50 includes a plurality of selectable control areas or zones which can be accessed by a user to both program and operate washing machine 2 in the most preferred form of the invention display 50 takes the form of an lcd display such as a 128 u00d7 96 dot matrix touch screen display which enables a user to readily review displayed data preferably in alpha or word text format and select from that data to establish and begin.