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Brain Tuner!
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Nice, that 8 seconds is the best i've seen around! I'll have to keep at it when I get some time.
I did ~45.3 but missed the very last question.Nice, that 8 seconds is the best i've seen around! I'll have to keep at it when I get some time.
Believe it or not, this does help your brain process faster.
Must break 8 second barrier...!!!
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this game is insane! just dowloaded it yesterday and everyone in my office is competing for the top spot! best time = 12.121162; poor zak:
:this game is insane! just dowloaded it yesterday and everyone in my office is competing for the top spot! best time = 12.121162; poor zak
Umm...I want to participate.
I love this game (although using the iPhone to write on this site is another question) ... I was on a plane flight Saturday afternoon struggling to get under 10 seconds and when I got 9.69 (the same time as usain bolt) I wondered if that record would stand the test of time. A half hour later I shattered it with a sub-9.2 out of nowhere. At the time I think I was stuck on 54 or 55 as my record for 100.
On the 3 hour ride from the airport I started getting times around 8.5 and 48. These were records of course... Most were in the 9-10 second and 51-55 range still.
Yesterday I was having no trouble beating 9 seconds and most of my errorfree runs were 44-46 for 100. After setting a mark of 7.502 I gave up on ever beating it and reset my best score so I could set bearable marks again. Last night when I went to bed my records were in the phone as 8.002 and 44.5
This morning I played a couple runs that were 8.5 or so, and I took my 44.5 down to 44.4. I got distracted thinking about something else and duddenly I got a message saying my new record is 6.584140 ... I have no idea if I will ever beat this -- it's the only time I've even broken 7.50 ... I also made a discrete jump from my 44 record to a mark in the 41s ... But I'm sure that will be beaten later today
I love this game
On the 3 hour ride from the airport I started getting times around 8.5 and 48. These were records of course... Most were in the 9-10 second and 51-55 range still.
Yesterday I was having no trouble beating 9 seconds and most of my errorfree runs were 44-46 for 100. After setting a mark of 7.502 I gave up on ever beating it and reset my best score so I could set bearable marks again. Last night when I went to bed my records were in the phone as 8.002 and 44.5
This morning I played a couple runs that were 8.5 or so, and I took my 44.5 down to 44.4. I got distracted thinking about something else and duddenly I got a message saying my new record is 6.584140 ... I have no idea if I will ever beat this -- it's the only time I've even broken 7.50 ... I also made a discrete jump from my 44 record to a mark in the 41s ... But I'm sure that will be beaten later today
I love this game
20 questions is just luck after certain level, if it happen that you run into a very lucky set of questions where right and wrong are all falling together =). Average speed around 8.5 is good, but 6.58 has more to do with luck than faster brain speed.
this morning i beat 7.5 in my first try and got < 7.1 within the next 4 tries. I'd say the daily improvement is statistically significant ;-)
oh yeah, i did a run with 95% accuracy in 6.60 around the same time
haven't played 100q today, but i'm sure 41s is going down
dangit .. 1st try, 38.946474 seconds, 99% accuracy
well ... 40.580108 + 0 penalty will have to be the record for now.
In any event my record from 36 hours ago (44.x) is now something I'm beating every time..
ETA: I really wish they would put in an option for what penalty to apply on wrong answers. 5 seconds is an eternity. Adding 1.5-2 seconds on a 100q run would keep it interesting.
You're not doing math anymore, you're just memorizing the number combination.
Ok, this game is no longer fun.
i was doing math before? i learned addition subtraction and multiplication 26 years ago, i didn't just pick those skills up when i downloaded this game last week. this game isn't about math, it's about making a quick yes or no decision 20 times really really fast and not screwing up.
anyways, the game just started getting fun. my average time decreases by about .02 seconds per question every day, indicating that my brain is getting "tuned". for 99 cents i downloaded the premium version that lets you put your scores online and has a feature for division. there are only a couple people that have posted respectable times, but i'm sure that will change in a day or 6. meanwhile i get to make videos like this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVzLCWGMuso
my best time for 20 problems is: 12,72 seconds
and for 100: 100,15 seconds
i have one question, how is it possible to do 7 seconds
basically you have to turn off the impulse to hesitate and question whether or not you did the right thing on the previous answer, and then you have to tap quickly. even then i've only broken 7 twice out of a few hundred attempts. still if you look at the leaderboard on braintuner premium you can see that several people have managed to break 8.
also if you're reading the numbers inside your head that's gonna waste a ton of time. your brain knows the answers to each question and doesn't need to "hear" each one from start to finish before it can tell you what the time is. i read somewhere that if you want to train yourself to speedread the first thing you do is train yourself to read at a VERY VERY SLOWWWWWW PACE until your brain gives up out of frustration and stops reading the words out loud, at which point your ability to speedread is no longer limited by the speed of that voice reading the words "out loud" inside your head. i didn't quite try this, but this closest thing i tried was playing a song (or metronome) and then forcing myself to answer 1 question per beat with a very very slow beat, and then speed it up to where i'm trying to keep up with a very fast beat (it's always kindof exciting to go along with a fast tempo and see your time show up as 5.8 or 6.1, even if accuracy is only like 55%)
lastly i think you just need to know the answer to the next question before it slides under your eyeball. i kindof want them to implement an option to where some of the time you won't be able to see the question you're answering, thus forcing your brain to make a habit of always looking ahead to the next question even while storing the information of what it needs to answer on the current one. i'm pretty sure that if my brain was trained to know the next two answers 100% of the time that would make 6.5 an attainable score.
Dude, you are hardcore...I wanted to break your record, so I sat there for about 20 minutes playing the damn thing. Then my girlfriend came by and slapped me in the side of head and said, "go do something useful, you freaking idiot..."
Ok, 20 question has became a fluke. But ya, I am a distant 2nd behind you in 60 and 100...if only I have time to train and hide from my gf...