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Reaction Time Game - Today's Time Waster
by Jason Clarke Sep 16th 2005 at 8:00AM
This is a super quick distraction brought to us by the BBC, of all things. It's just a simple reaction time game: 5 sheep are lined up on the left side of the screen, occasionally shifting and moving about. Suddenly, one will make a break for the other side of the screen at warp speed. Your job is to simply hit the tranquilizer button as soon as you see one make a break for it, but not before. The game lasts all of 30 seconds, and then gives you your average and best times, along with an admonition that you should probably drink more coffee. Or at least that's what it told me, when overall I scored an obviously very average 0.223 second average reaction time. 
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
yinyang said 9:30AM on 9-16-2005
another avearge joe....0.2236 :-)
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phi said 9:40AM on 9-16-2005
.191 first try, I'm a rocketing rabbit
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steve said 1:01PM on 9-16-2005
i managed a 0.0000 on one of my sheep. i thought i was going to get a penalty for an early shot.
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Caius Durling said 11:05AM on 9-18-2005
I was going to boast 0.000 time on one of my sheep... but steve beat me to it!
I got 2.234. Pretty average.
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Alison Reynolds said 8:53AM on 9-21-2005
Fun for what it is, a time waster. Will use it again to clear my mind. Thanx.
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