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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 It's been replaced by a comments system.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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blalone 1 month 3 days ago

I made a reaction time measurement where you would be prompted either a 1,2 or 3 and then had to type the appropriate key on the first try to stop the clock. The times were considerably slower, around 500 ms. This is more like a real life situation such as driving a car. I wanted to test the effects of alcohol on the reaction + computation time of the brain.

sirus09 3 months 4 weeks ago

Thanks for the cool info SystemicAnomaly

frankblank 4 months 4 days 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 4 months 5 days ago

Check out the international false start ruling for sprinters:

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

SystemicAnomaly 4 months 5 days ago

The best batters in baseball and other elite athletes often possess a simple VISUAL RT of 150ms or better. The lowest legitimate visual RTs is considered to be in the 120 to 130ms range. This is considered the limit for electro-chemical nerve impulses to travel from the eye to the brain and from the brain to the fingers. This assumes a cognitive processing time of ZERO -- pure reflex, with no decision making processes involved.

Anything faster than this is considered LUCK or a psychic phenomenon. For this reason I believe that 120 (or 130) ms would be a more suitable cutoff than 100ms.

SystemicAnomaly 4 months 5 days ago

The "false start" cutoff for world-class sprinters is 100ms. If sprinters leave the starting block quicker than this, it is considered invalid. Note that sprinters are reacting to an AUDITORY cue rather than a VISUAL cue. Our simple AUDITORY RT is about 20-40ms faster than the simple VISUAL RT measured by the test on this web site. Elite sprinters are known to have an auditory RT as low as 110 to 120ms. It is exceptionally rare to have an auditory RT faster than this.

superman 4 months 2 weeks ago

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

sirus09 4 months 3 weeks ago

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

Impossible 5 months 2 days 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.

gorm 6 months 6 days ago

What is a very fast time for a 46 year-old fat slob who sits on the couch all day eating Cheese Its?

futsalbol 9 months 4 weeks ago

What is a very fast time for a 15 year-old male athlete?

hbw_knuckles 10 months 1 week ago

I got a 99 millisecond and was a fast reflex. BUt legitimate, I never did any faster legitimate than this 99 millisecond that was also my last click on my 155 average... and this never showed up to the leaderboards.

Pinky Dinky Dooo!!! 10 months 2 weeks ago

I love this game thingy its so fun!!! :)