New forum game- human response time

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Having coped with the infuriating “I accept” flags, a month or so ago and seen that resolved eventually a new form of entertainment is now presented ( at least it is on my device).
When I login and click on a board it shows briefly but flicks up and down / back and forth before I can progress- I’ve tried speeding up my reaction time here, to try to meet the challenge but 470 milliseconds is simply not good enough for me to win?

Reaction Time Test
 
Gin said:
Having coped with the infuriating “I accept” flags, a month or so ago and seen that resolved eventually a new form of entertainment is now presented ( at least it is on my device).
When I login and click on a board it shows briefly but flicks up and down / back and forth before I can progress- I’ve tried speeding up my reaction time here, to try to meet the challenge but 470 milliseconds is simply not good enough for me to win?

Reaction Time Test
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I average 260 ms and still can't do it
 
Interesting test! I was thinking that my reaction time was getting very bad with increasing age ( now 78) but 'scored' 260 which seems ok ( considering!)
I wonder if there is another process which sets in with age? For example someone says something to me and I am (fractionally) slow in responding, I guess that this is 'processing' time?
So when driving my car a sudden emergency may generate an instinctive reaction ( slam on brakes!) but a situation where an assessment is required may result in slower action?
 
I'm 306ms which is well below the average of around 225ms. I don't believe that average was done on my laptop. ;)

I just tried the hearing test on the same website (dropdown menu at top) which tells me my upper hearing limit is 10k. I accept that this is correct but it gives the user average as 19k which is rubbish unless the average relates to people in their teens. :unsure:

Richard
 
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I'm 306ms which is well below the average of around 225ms. I don't believe that average was done on my laptop. ;)

I just tried the hearing test on the same website (dropdown menu at top) which tells me my upper hearing limit is 10k. I accept that this is correct but it gives the user average as 19k which is rubbish unless the average relates to people in their teens. :unsure:

Richard
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I would expect the tests to be skewed by the amount of teenagers / early twenty somethings spending lots of time on t'web and doing the tests ;)

Although even taking that into account it's very unlikely that the average computer speakers are of good enough quality to provide meaningful results
 
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