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Geek Culture / how fast are your reflexes?

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Mussi
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Posted: 22nd May 2004 17:42
try this code and test your relfexes



I got 176ms, pritty slow



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Posted: 22nd May 2004 18:31
162ms, not too bad

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Posted: 22nd May 2004 18:41
151ms. I tried again and just kept clicking and eventually got down to 10 ms.



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Posted: 22nd May 2004 19:33
cheater



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Posted: 22nd May 2004 20:06
I got 2224ms

Give All The Credit Away
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Posted: 22nd May 2004 20:09
I keep getting a flat 219 ms, though I'm sure there should be some variation there .

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Posted: 22nd May 2004 20:34 Edited at: 22nd May 2004 20:34
kinda weird that we people react so slow over all those generations



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Posted: 22nd May 2004 23:01
i did it and got 299, ive been on the coke which slows my reaction times so....


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Quote: " kinda weird that we people react so slow over all those generations "


Not really. It's not like we're evolving by the generation (*cough*or at all*/cough*). Besides, reacting to a red flash on a black screen is different than reacting to a knife thrown at you-- the first dosen't trigger adrenaline .

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Posted: 22nd May 2004 23:49 Edited at: 22nd May 2004 23:55
I got 130 quickest (without cheating or luck). About 160 average.

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Posted: 22nd May 2004 23:52 Edited at: 22nd May 2004 23:54
Cheat-proof version ...



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Posted: 23rd May 2004 00:35
110ms with the cheat proof version, but I only got it once..so far

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And here is an cheat proof version (improved on Hamish McHaggis's). This will make it possible to hit escape to end the program, and instead of showing one dull color it shows random dull colors which makes it harder because you need to concentrate more.



My last post was not with this version


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Posted: 23rd May 2004 00:54
Quote: "kinda weird that we people react so slow over all those generations"


Well, 150ms should actually be the fastest eye-to-hand reaction of human beings, so 130ms isn't that bad
I got 180ms BTW


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Posted: 23rd May 2004 01:00 Edited at: 23rd May 2004 01:00
i got 188ms(non-cheat version)....but i'm reeeeaaaallllly tired right now

hehe i figured out the cheating thing also!
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Posted: 23rd May 2004 01:11
best i could get was 156 on non-cheat version, every time i felt like i was doing it waay slower than i couldve, even on my fastest but i just couldnt get it any faster even though i felt i was slow!
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Posted: 23rd May 2004 01:20
my fasted is 300 and my average is about 350, im waking up cos its late at nite


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Posted: 23rd May 2004 01:54
using the cheat proof version, fastest was 95ms and 220ms on average.

I'm sure all those online unreal tournament guru's could react in 50ms

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Posted: 23rd May 2004 01:59
the second cheat proof one doesnt work properly


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Posted: 23rd May 2004 02:13
Quote: "I'm sure all those online unreal tournament guru's could react in 50ms "


That's me I challenge anyone here to a match of UT!

lol

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Posted: 23rd May 2004 03:03
lol i can cheat on all versions i got 0ms on some. Added randomize timer() to the top of Hamish's and changed it to the random color background. I averaged 152 to 172ms with this one.



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Posted: 23rd May 2004 03:29
lowest was 103 ... highest 196 ... adverage 112
guess the younger generations do seem to be getting slower

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Posted: 23rd May 2004 03:39
It took me 12.304 seconds to scan this thread and decide not to bother.

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Posted: 23rd May 2004 05:46
First time I thought I had to wait for it to turn green or something so I got 28,840. Tried again and got 190. Tried a last time and got 31, I didn't click repeatadly but because it's the same time every go, I anticipated when it would turn red.


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Posted: 23rd May 2004 07:45
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How does the second one not work properly. It seems to work for me.

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Posted: 23rd May 2004 08:03
The second cheet proof one doesn't work here because if you hit your mousebutton every 200ms(or so) regardless of what you see I get 0ms reaction time.

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Posted: 23rd May 2004 18:44
Oh well I tried.

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Posted: 23rd May 2004 21:01
I got about 288 as an average, but I am sitting quite far away from the screen, and red light travels slowly through cigarette smoke.

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Posted: 23rd May 2004 22:51
lol , how fast is light anyway?



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Posted: 24th May 2004 04:33
Quote: "Quote: "I'm sure all those online unreal tournament guru's could react in 50ms "

That's me I challenge anyone here to a match of UT!

lol "


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Posted: 24th May 2004 10:28
Quote: "lol , how fast is light anyway?"


3 * 10^8 m/s

That's

300,000,000 m/s

To put it in retrospect, if there were two people looking at something on the sun, one person was next to the sun, and the other person was on Earth. The person sitting on Earth would see the thing on the sun 8 minutes later then the person next to the sun. This also means if the sun vanished then it would take 8 minutes before everything goes black and we realise.


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Posted: 24th May 2004 17:58
the m stands for meters right? so we'll never be able to play online acion games with people all across the globe without lag



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Posted: 24th May 2004 19:24 Edited at: 24th May 2004 21:24
Modified the code a little...now it makes the average out of ten rounds and it shows the time of each round. Oh by the way...I got 1ms without cheating...just luck!

Ps:
The code isn't very complicated, so don't write posts with saying that I could have done it better in another way...just post your code. I'm not much of a programmer!
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Quote: "First time I thought I had to wait for it to turn green or something "

Heh same here

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Posted: 24th May 2004 20:09
woot, I managed to get 101ms without cheating



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Posted: 25th May 2004 02:59
Quote: "the m stands for meters right? so we'll never be able to play online acion games with people all across the globe without lag "


Yeah, but 300,000,000 metres is about 7.5 times the circumference of the world. So it takes about 0.13 seconds for light to travel one complete circle around the world, and therefore 0.07 seconds for light to travel from one side of the world to the other. Couldn't consider that lag!

.. not that the communications are that fast in practice, but still the speed of light isn't really the cause of lag.

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Correct. Fibre optic and other cables can use the speed of light to carry messages to and from places but the real limitation comes in sending and receiving the messages. If you get a message on the other side of the world every 0.07 seconds but can only read and process a message every 5 seconds then it's not the speed of light that's creating the lag, but your modem that can't receieve it quick enough.

Of course, it would be too expensive to use fibre optics anyway, but you get the point.


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I'm guessing we bounce most of our data off satellites using microwaves (obviously not the ones you cook your frozen curry in) to bridge the oceans. I don't know what the stats are for how far away a geostationary satellite has to be from earth to orbit, but I believe its 20,000 or 40,000 km. Which mean, in actual fact, the signals are travelling a hell of a lot further.

But anyway, yep, the real delay is in the routers, the other hardware and in particular, the protocols and their respective problems. And also the errors, and how errors are corrected in protocols. In most internet based protocols, they're not corrected. Frames are just dropped. But anyway, going into too much detail.

I guess the point is, don't blame the speed of light for lag!

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Posted: 25th May 2004 20:00
why can't we go faster than light ?



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Where's Hawking when you need him?

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Posted: 26th May 2004 02:37
@lrfudhg (dunt ask me to speel) - for me you press it then it flashes and it records the time from the end of the last sesson t the press (before the flash), i do not have a reaction time of above 30000!


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Posted: 26th May 2004 03:05 Edited at: 26th May 2004 03:06
light only travels through optical fibre at 2x10^8m/s (200000000)

anyway, with the first version i get average of about 200ms, best=182 regular=188 most common<220<184

edit: its 12:10am here tho so i'm not really awake

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Posted: 26th May 2004 14:32
Quote: "so we'll never be able to play online acion games with people all across the globe without lag"


Actually, if we can make internet devices that use quantum entaglement, then the speed of light would not be important anymore

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Posted: 26th May 2004 16:53
Quote: "why can't we go faster than light?"


As your speed gets closer to the speed of light your mass increases exponentially. As your mass increases, you need more energy to continue to accelerate (and get closer to the speed of light). You can never reach the speed of light because your mass will hit infinity and to counter-act this, you would need an infinite source of energy to accelerate that little bit more to reach the speed of light. Hence you can't go faster or even at the speed of light.


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Posted: 26th May 2004 16:56
the only reason photons can go at the speed of light it because they aren't really matter and thus mass-less

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Posted: 26th May 2004 17:59
I tought so, that's to bad, guess we'll never encounter aliens



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On the contrary, both time and length dilutes as you get near the speed of light. So even let's say Mars is 20 light years away (It would take 20 years to get there if you were travelling at the speed of light) and you were going at 90% of the speed of light so on paper it should actually take you 25 years to get there. HOWEVER, Einstein's theory of relativity proves that when you go close to the speed of light time will slow down and length will contract, so in reality it may only actually take you 15 years to get there instead of the calculated 25.

This brings rise to the 'Twins Paradox', if you had a twin on Earth and then you went off to Mars, when you reached Mars you will have aged 15 years but your twin will have aged 25 years. So essentially if you were both 30 years old when you left, you would be 45 when you reached Mars and your twin would be 55. Crazy, isn't it? But believe it or not, this has actually been proven and is real.


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Posted: 27th May 2004 19:13
wow, weird , that einstein guy really was a samrt one eh



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