Improve Your Reaction Time:

I get lots of emails asking me how to improve your reaction time. I'm not very quick myself, and my best advice is to drink a pot of coffee. So I asked the site's fastest users how they got so quick.

This is what they told me:

Don't concentrate on the text. If you read "click," your brain is taking too much time to read before reacting.
Don't focus too hard in one spot, use more peripheral vision (still looking at the box), and just click when "something" changes.
Alcohol and some medicine hurt your score.
- Argammon

Sit close to the monitor.
Find the spot on your mouse directly above the spring, and press down so you are just on the threshold of clicking.
- Nitro

Minimize distractions.
Stay hydrated and play when you're already alert.
- HitMe

Concentrate as much as possible.
Play lots of video games.
- zerm1r

Any more good suggestions?

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blackcrow6667 2 hours 6 minutes ago

Listen to fast music prior.
Drink a lot of coffee.
Have a fast brain?

dreamw8er 4 weeks 10 hours ago

have a wank

Vios 1 month 3 days ago

Do some sports like playing badminton or even table tennis

fxfighter 2 months 2 weeks ago

got a bit above 200 ms by using a normal mouse,without eny tricks. The only training i ever recived was the days i spended on stepmania. which increases your reaction and control when played at insanse rate and arrow speed

War Spigot 2 months 4 weeks ago

be a beast like me-

http://chanssite.webs.com/pictures/0%20ms.png

10:22 PM after waking up before 6

Deathanchor 3 months 1 week ago

-Use zoom screen feature to make the green box take up the whole screen.
-Do it in the middle of the day
-Get a gaming grade mouse

I am third in the past month

BludShoT 3 months 3 weeks ago

JdeCat 3 months 4 weeks ago

doit until your reactions are perfect

coolface 4 months 2 weeks ago

Click the left mouse button when the box changes color from red to green!

dejanzie 4 months 2 weeks ago

Play while the boss might catch you. Downside: severe risk of twitching and clicking too soon.

TGT Sjonge 4 months 3 weeks ago

Try this test after playing a shooting game when you are full of real life adrenline.

ShippoFoxFire 5 months 2 weeks ago

Just click when something changes.

dcmac 5 months 4 weeks ago

Is you are tired at all it will drastically slow you down. When I am tired I am around .22, but with rest an easy .16-.17

saihamaru 6 months 3 weeks ago

just don't do this when your eyes feels weary
it's better if you wash your face first

aSympToTe 7 months 2 weeks ago

adderall

unekdoud 7 months 2 weeks ago

Breathe in and hold!!

CodeNameDL 9 months 1 week ago

caffeine, coke coffee, red bull anything to keep you more awake.

ouchimdead 9 months 2 weeks ago

eat sugar to become hyper, well it works for me

MagnetoManiac 10 months 2 weeks ago

Widen your eyes and breathe steadily

imran hajee 10 months 2 weeks ago

count to 10secs and then press

smithbh 10 months 4 weeks ago

-set monitor to highest refresh rate(75-120Hz)
-use PS2/USB mouse NOT touchpad on laptop
-play online multiplayer games(counter-strike 1.6 and counter-strike source)
-relax

reflextraining 11 months 5 days ago

Don't consciously click - let your sub-concious do it for you

Abrakadeadguy 1 year 6 days ago

Use your dominant hand. and check out this ...
http://biae.clemson.edu/bpc/bp/Lab/110/reaction.htm#Mean%20Times

khursheed 1 year 1 week ago

by solving su-do-ku & many more puzzles very quickly.i am assure anyone can improve his rt very soon.

chefcook 1 year 2 weeks ago

turn down the colour of your screen to 0, and turn up the contrast and the gamma of your screen. apart from psychological training (to concentrate for example) the speed of your reaction just depends on the intensity of the sensation the eyes/the brain gets. And a change from dark to bright causes stronger impact to the nerve cells/perception.

That is, if the colour would change from red to brown, the difference you recognize is not so strong, your reaction time wouldnt be so fast.

That should give most people a noticable boost.

A reason is, I think, when you stare long time on a bright or colourful surface, your eyes get used to it, its about chemical reactions and neurological processes within the perceptive nerve cells.

Petaki 1 year 3 weeks ago

Drink alot of caffiene and stay away from marijuana.

johnintx 1 year 1 month ago

Jump the gun a lot! Having false starts don't count against your time, and eventually you'll get lucky and get a few in around 100 ms that will count. Personally, I think they should count the false starts. Doesn't seem fair if you have dozens of them.

Gabor 1 year 1 month ago

EAGERTESTICAL's idea definitely works lol. Fear the green monster!

Colt891 1 year 1 month ago

Just like the other comments; stay hydrated, alert and awake. I use my peripheral vision and stare at the blue border around the box. I have developed an internal clock of when it will change colors on average, which helps with my times.

EAGERTESTICAL 1 year 3 months ago

Imagine you are looking in a red landscape for a tiny green creature that is going to leap out and attack you... imagine the creature is hiding behind red leaves and when you spot it you only have a split-second to squish it under your finger or it will attack your genitals.. if you get in the right frame of mind you will find your finger knows what to do. Fear the green...

JustJelous 1 year 4 months ago

Don't look at the box necessarily, sit about 2-2.5 feet away from the screen and don't focus on anything but just keep looking and wait for somthing to change.

Biker-Spawn 1 year 5 months ago

Ride a motorbike...that helps

whoadude 1 year 5 months ago

sometimes zooming in helps so the red is bigger
also glazing your eyes over is quite good and having your face really close while holding your breath then moving away as you click

hurleyboi8787 1 year 5 months ago

I find holding my breath helpful too. Exhale when you click.

Smilnator 1 year 6 months ago

Drink something with lots of caffeine in. took 20ms of my time

vomitme 1 year 7 months ago

i found a "glitch" in the system
many times, the green appears almost exactly five seconds after u click

so just count to five and click :)

vomitme 1 year 9 months ago

i got under 100ms a few times by doing that

vomitme 1 year 9 months ago

look through the corner of your eye, but not actually the corner; raise your eyes above your monitor but focus on the red box

sku50 1 year 9 months ago

go outside and get some fresh air, yh i know its hard too much light!!!

antipriest 1 year 9 months ago

play during jerk off :D

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