A hand-held pulse laser distance measuring device (1) with an algorithm (3) which controls a microcontroller (2) and which serves to calculate the distance (X) to a measurement object (4) by a time difference (.tau.) between a measurement pulse (6) and a reference pulse (7) and with a superimposition module (5) which calculates the time difference (.tau.) of a plurality of repeated pulse trains which are periodically superimposed with a trigger frequency f.sub.TRIGGER, wherein the trigger frequency f.sub.TRIGGER lies in the frequency range of<<.times..times. ##EQU00001## at an interference frequency f.sub.INT=100 Hz . . . 120 Hz; and a measuring method for the pulse laser distance measuring device.