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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sku50 1 day 41 minutes ago

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

antipriest 1 week 9 hours ago

play during jerk off :D

Strider Chipp 3 weeks 2 days ago

Well you have to learn to think quick and you need to train your vision. Try play Flash Focus for the DS. Reaction time and reflexes etc. are all about timing and Focus. Exercies everyday. Playing video games like Fighter, shooter and Action Adventure games. Examples Guilty Gear Accent Core,Halo 3, Devil May Cry 3&4. It will help. Also if you need to seek knowledge about your reaction time and reflexes.

Ali Kerr 1 month 2 days ago

Play video games where u need reactions, like shooters. I play Gears of War and that's very good for it.

Project Zero 1 month 1 week ago

Simply stay close to your monitor and click at any change at all

funnystuff 1 month 3 weeks ago

STAY FIT, everyone thinks having the fastest hardware makes a big difference. Well it does but staying fit is more important. Reflects (involuntary moments) plays a big roll, thats why practicing makes a big difference.

if your looking to increase your time in a virtual shooter, don't play around with this. Go play the game instead !!

Antigen 2 months 4 days ago

Use a lower screen resolution so that you can have a faster refresh rate. CRT monitor like already said. Definitely do this when you're not hungry/tired/thirsty so you can focus. I used to be competitive (top 10) on the top scores list before a bunch of fire breathers came.

Look through the screen, click quickly at the first sign of color change. Practice. Don't think being good at this game will help you in counter-strike or life...

reflextraining 2 months 5 days ago

Think about as soon as something changes u will click very fast - helps alot

adamh 2 months 1 week ago

Breathe in and slowly breathe out continuously as you count to four letting your eyes focus on the middle distance and let your finger click

Dologan 3 months 1 week ago

Your hardware can have a significant impact. Stick to wired mice, as wireless ones introduce about ~40ms lag. Laptop buttons are even worse. Some LCD screens are also known to have a measurable lag compared to CRT monitors.
My typical ~150ms RT over 100 clicks with a wired mouse and CRT/desktop LCD went to >190ms with a (RF)wireless mouse on my laptop. I blame the mouse more than the screen, but I'm not sure how much of the lag is due to each.

lunatiik 3 months 2 weeks ago

Play miday about an hour after food. Then drink alot of water.

playgameo 3 months 3 weeks ago

ouy vey

playgameo 3 months 3 weeks ago

ouy vey

vomitme 3 months 4 weeks ago

minimize ur screen so that only a part of the red shows, make sure there is no text

improves time by 20 ms

sirus09 4 months 2 weeks ago

Stare "through" the screen keeping the box in your peripheral vision, and click when you see the flicker (of green).

sonik 4 months 2 weeks ago

try popping some caffiene pills....keeps your nerves stimulated + nerve impulse travel faster as a result meaning that it will take less time to send a message to your finger, from your brain, to click the mouse when we see the colour change.

ImpossibleYouSay 5 months 1 week ago

Hello world! From testing myself for half an hour an hour ago, I found that when I got into a state of being on the verge of clicking, expecting the green the next millisecond, I reacted faster. Sometimes I would click without there being any green because I was so ready.. When I did this right, I found times over 150 milliseconds to be poor. 13x seems to be my natural, fastest reaction time, while anything better than that is...fortunate. Anything below 100 milliseconds is luck, which is why such times don't count on the leaderboard.

homebuilding 5 months 3 weeks ago

ZERO DRUGS
test within one hour after getting up in the morning
and, like everything else in life--PRACTICE ! !

tim garvey 5 months 3 weeks ago

get a life

tim garvey 5 months 3 weeks ago

get a life

vancouver 6 months 3 days ago

Use a ps/2 mouse instead of a usb mouse.

Snipal 6 months 6 days ago

Buy a Logitech G9 ;)

fatboy 6 months 2 weeks ago

I would like to know what age it is at which one's reaction time starts to irreversibly decline.

texasaaron 8 months 1 week ago

Hold your mouse in the air and support the bottom with your other hand, and use your peripheral vision instead of starring at something, then when it flashed spazz out as hard as u can and click the mouse.

Ben (admin) 8 months 3 weeks ago

How do you increase polling speed?

Friction 9 months 3 weeks ago

practice, when you know what to expect, your times get faster.

Arlieth 10 months 2 weeks ago

Don't click softly- You're going to have to slam that mouse button. Also, increasing your USB Polling speed for your mouse shaves milliseconds, and using a CRT monitor instead of a LCD helps too.