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Frequently Asked Questions

Why won't my score show up?
At the moment, clicks under 100 milliseconds aren't counted for the leaderboard.

Why not?
Anything faster than 100 milliseconds is usually lucky click. As you can see on the stats page, everything from 0 to 130 milliseconds is about the same, and the actual bell curve seems to start at 130 milliseconds. I would be inclined to make the cutoff 130, but a few of the fastest players do seem to be getting legitimate results closer to 100. This way, the average people might rack up some lucky clicks, and the really good players can have their fastest clicks counted, and stay in the top ranks anyways.

Someone cheated!
I'm sorry, you'll need to rephrase that as a question.

Someone cheated?
At the moment, I'm manually deleting users who abuse the system. Just use the contact page to point it out to me.

What happened to the forums?
There wasn't much activity there, mostly just spam. It's been replaced by a comments system.

How do I get faster?
This is how.

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Abrakadeadguy 4 weeks 1 day ago

My reaction time is 20 ms slower today

Abrakadeadguy 4 weeks 1 day ago

Don't drink a cup of coffee. It may seem like it wakes you up, but if your fingers twitch, it can cause false clicks. It will also cause mis clicks (try to click but your finger didn't mover far enought)

sallysue89 1 month 2 weeks ago

Can I use this cite for a non-profit school project?

jp929rr 1 month 3 weeks ago

which is the real average?
see below...

jp929rr 1 month 3 weeks ago

Not that it matters much, but why is my "certified" time different than my average time?

alfzl189191 2 months 2 weeks ago

Do not look at me as green.
If you want something changed quickly click

methane95 5 months 1 week ago

I closed my eyes and went for instincts 1st try and I got 28!
I was like wow. Try it

Margus 5 months 2 weeks ago

Lala, I guess you will get better, but i have no idea when you can see your improvements.

Nicklas 11 months 5 days ago

i got 218.0

Darryl Learie 1 year 1 month ago

209.0

Lala 1 year 1 month ago

So if you play this game your reaction speed will get faster?and if it will about how long do u have to play to see improvements?

caroman 1 year 4 months ago

The Chess Notation Test is a well-crafted measure of a persons cognitive dissonance... Well done! Would you consider including a version with the "correct" colors in each square, just to have a baseline to compare to the other....

War Spigot 1 year 9 months ago

@jchizmar
on the stats graph for time waited before green light vs. reaction time, the average was 9 seconds faster for waiting 2500(ms I guess?) than waiting 5000. Thats seems like some kind of correlation to me.

jchizmar 1 year 9 months ago

Is there a correlation between delay time before box turns green and reaction time? It seems like after waiting too long a person's focus might be reduced.

War Spigot 1 year 9 months ago

I can get extremely low times when I'm predicting it (I have a good internal stopwatch to count to 5 with i guess(that could be another game)) I can get times below 50ms. I've gotten a 0ms before and also a 12 and some 20's and 30's. But when you do this, you get a lot of false starts. I think a good way to prevent prevention would be this:

For every false start, one time under 100ms would be take off.

This way, predictors like me wont be counted on the scoreboard, but really fast people will.

davidx 1 year 10 months ago

how about age as a variable

BludShoT 1 year 10 months ago

nice job bro

Soliloquy 2 years 1 month ago

strange i donated 5 dollars but i'm still not a pro account, what happened?

johnintx 2 years 7 months ago

Finally had one click that was only 21 ms, but it was a fluke. I inadvertently clicked. Sure made for a fast 5 click time.

Fascion 2 years 7 months ago

Possible solution:
Allow sub-100ms scores in expert mode only and only if the user experiences no pre-mature clicks.

While I tend to agree with the whole "anything quicker than 100ms is inhuman," I think that if someone legitimately thinks they can do it, they should be able to do it with consistency... not blind luck or voodoo magic.

One lucky click sub-100ms is enough to drastically warp any score of only 5 attempts and that just shouldn't be acceptable.

Decadent 2 years 8 months ago

SystemAnonaly

It`s interesting your comments about the Visual RT time of elite athletes being in the 120-130ms range.

For the first few days of playing this benchmark I had very few legitimate reaction times below 120ms.

After playing this benchmark for several hours a day for the last week I can honestly say when I`m absolutely "in the zone" I can often achieve legitimate times around 105-110ms.
I havent been able to string togeather a sequence of 5 of these (

jok 2 years 8 months ago

jok

JakeNewy 3 years 2 months ago

WHY CANT U MAKE UNDER 100 MILISECONDS COUNT

explosive diarrhea 3 years 3 months ago

176 ! i have the runs!!

dawciobiel 3 years 3 months ago

my fastest time is 84ms

sirus09 3 years 7 months ago

Thanks for the cool info SystemicAnomaly

frankblank 3 years 8 months ago

65 yrs old, often abused body, 196.5, 4 thousanths of a second better than average, wowie, I'm gettin' drunk tomorrow night. Seriously, it seems clear you can get better with pratice, but I'm retiring at 4 ms better than average :).

SystemicAnomaly 3 years 8 months ago

Check out the international false start ruling for sprinters:

www.finishlynx.com/products/reactime/overview/body.htm#

superman 3 years 8 months ago

below 100 shud be also counted man......

sirus09 3 years 8 months ago

I got a non-guess 89, I swear. Pure instinctual reaction... the cutoff is good at 100 though.

Impossible 3 years 9 months ago

I'm glad the cutoff is 100 ms, and not 130 ms. I've been getting several 12x times, and half a dozen non-lucky 11x times. I know I had 111 ms yesterday or whatever, and I think I can potentially do even better.

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