Reaction Time Game - Today's Time Waster

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Reaction Time Game - Today's Time Waster

by Jason Clarke Sep 16th 2005

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.

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

yinyang said 9:30AM on 9-16-2005

another avearge joe....0.2236 :-)

phi said 9:40AM on 9-16-2005

.191 first try, I'm a rocketing rabbit

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.

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.

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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