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Finger Frenzy - Today's Time Waster
by Jason Clarke Jan 6th 2007 at 3:24PM
This is probably the most simple Time Waster we've ever featured, but it's one that can be terribly addictive, particularly if you can get friends or co-workers involved. It's called Finger Frenzy, and the game is ridiculously basic. All it does is measure how quickly you can type the alphabet - that's it. You'd be surprised how hard it is to type the alphabet quickly and accurately. The letters don't roll off the fingers like you might think, since they're not in orders that commonly occur in written language. It makes the game far more challenging than you might imagine it to be.
And with a game that takes only 5 (or less) seconds to play, that's really all I have to say about it. Oh - post your scores in the comments. Mine is still too embarrassing to mention (over 8 seconds) but I haven't had a chance to practice yet.
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, ...
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sdfgsdsdfsdf said 4:14PM on 1-06-2007
4,391
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Gerardo said 4:17PM on 1-06-2007
I'm down to 3.976 seconds
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lilpunk1302 said 4:44PM on 1-06-2007
11.902
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Jonathan Harford said 5:03PM on 1-06-2007
I got down to 2/3 of a second by using AutoHotKey. But it wouldn't let me submit a high score (with the name "AutoHotKeyCheater"). It didn't give me an error, but clicking the SUBMIT SCORE button did nothing.
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SubFuze said 4:50PM on 1-06-2007
3.8322
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Steven said 5:38PM on 1-06-2007
113 seconds.
It didn't help that s, w, v, and z don't work. I had to open the International pane of System Preferences, enable US keyboard, switch to US, type the letter, then switch back to Dvorak.
Those keys are ;, ,, ., and / on the qwerty keyboard. All the other letters are actually letters on qwerty, and they worked fine.
/sigh I wanted to see what I could get. Maybe flash for windows will work right on monday.
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Ryan said 6:50PM on 1-06-2007
4.917 on my 5th try.
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Christian said 2:38AM on 1-07-2007
4.625
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Kevin K said 11:39PM on 1-06-2007
heh, I used applescript and keystrokes,
Managed 0.15... seconds, but it wouldn't let me submit a score if I did it, or applescript did it. Said there was "A problem with the server", but did it on my PC and it works aOK, but no applescript :p
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ryan said 1:14AM on 1-07-2007
3.95
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wildweasel said 1:33AM on 1-07-2007
Using a Logitech G-series macro keyboard, I got the time down to 0.15 seconds, but that clever program won't let me submit my high score if I'm cheating =P
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ryan said 1:45AM on 1-07-2007
make that 2.94
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David R said 2:41AM on 1-07-2007
I've broken 2.8 four times:
2.797
2.796
2.766
2.765
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Ranajay Sen said 8:49PM on 1-07-2007
My best time was 4 seconds exactly, but for all of you who tried to use macros or autohotkey to make it as fast as possible, you should realize by now that it rejects all times 1 second or less as impossible. Although I must ask, in all fairness, if you do find a way to make a macro to get a time of exactly 1.001 seconds, to not use it on the high score list.
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blecht said 12:18AM on 1-08-2007
i got 2.422, but i think i got down to 2.3 range when i first played a few months ago
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Steve said 7:24AM on 1-09-2007
3.272 was the best I could handle
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ATARI Ferrari said 12:04PM on 3-08-2007
2.5 seconds even, 3rd place in the high scores!!! (ATARI Ferrari)
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