Test Your Reflexes

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How fast is your Response time?
Test your trigger finger!

http://oskool.com/reflex.htm

Here's my best (so far):

[gopostal]

Right around .2 is perfect response time, given the time it takes to process the stimulus and then activate your muscle. That's a really good score, irregardless of what the blurb says. If you get any lower than .18 or so you simply guessed correctly. It's not humanly possible to get lower.

[Reiyel_3.0]

My progress :

That's a really good score, irregardless of what the blurb says. If you get any lower than .18 or so you simply guessed correctly. It's not humanly possible to get lower.

Yes, the last one was kind of a guess. But not the others

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Yes, the last one was kind of a guess. But not the others

Cheater!



BTW the test thing is bugged, sometimes it doesn't change color.

[gopostal]

I tried it using Opera and it refuses to change color at all.

[MEAT]

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How the hell everyone changes the letters

Btw: (No cheating),

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I tried it using Opera and it refuses to change color at all.

...and I thought Opera was the best browser ...or it's just the JavaScript that sucks bad.
However it partially works on Internet Explorer 6 and/or Firefox 3. It means sometimes it doesn't change color at all, you have to guess it, look at all the biased results we've posted.

[gopostal]

The results really do nothing more than show us what ping can do to a bell curve. There are downloadable reflex test programs that wont depend on network traffic to cull a score.

I don't mean to sound all geek-y about this but statistics was one of my favorite classes in school. Anything concerning average or median, I really enjoy discussing. We spent a week on the "birthday paradox" when I started stats class and I was hooked from then on.

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Wow Scotty I'm studying statistics too (actually I'm trying to study it ).

[gopostal]

Not to hijack a thread but have you done the Birthday Paradox?

For you who even care here's a short explanation:

If you randomly grab 23 people, what are the odds that two share a birthday? On the surface you would think it's 23/365 but in fact it is 50%!! Further if you gather 57 people the odds are 99% that two will share a birthday. The whole reason behind it is fascinating if you like cerebral problems like that (and also quite involved).

OK, great. Now I look like a TOTAL geek.

[Reiyel_3.0]

Not to hijack a thread but have you done the Birthday Paradox?

For you who even care here's a short explanation:

If you randomly grab 23 people, what are the odds that two share a birthday? On the surface you would think it's 23/365 but in fact it is 50%!! Further if you gather 57 people the odds are 99% that two will share a birthday. The whole reason behind it is fascinating if you like cerebral problems like that (and also quite involved).

OK, great. Now I look like a TOTAL geek.

You get that result because you work with the odds of a coincident pair, right? That's why its a mathematical paradox, it's not that if you really grab 23 people 50% of them will share a birthday. With that same logic, if you grab 367 ppl the odds of 2 sharing a birthday are 100%; but it's not gonna happen.

All this because Scotty's best result was 1.23 sec
Just kidding

[gopostal]

No if you gather 23 random people, the odds are 50% that two of them will share a birthday. It's got a lot of convoluted math to go along with it but the short and dirty answer is to think of it like this. Don't take one person and say "Ok. He has a 1 in 365 chance of matching me. Next person, same thing." When in fact you have 22 chances PER PERSON to make that match. With a group of 23 people thats a LOT of chances at a match.

It's explained in-depth here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birthday_paradox

One of our first projects was to break down the math and understand it. Oftentimes with statistics what appears to be simple is very complex and the answers can be nothing like you had thought them to be.

And for the record my best time was in the 22 second range. That, however is EXACTLY why Mrs. gopostal married me

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Oftentimes with statistics what appears to be simple is very complex and the answers can be nothing like you had thought them to be.

That's why I've started disliking it.
Ohwww my head hurts!