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Reaction Times test... 'fun'
« on: 09 December 2015, 12:03:38 »
Not sure it's up there with a naked skydive into a barrel full of soaped up glamour models, but here's a fun little reaction time test

http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3320226/What-driving-age-Emergency-stop-game-tests-reflexes-road-reveal-old-driver-are.html

About as scientific as hearing what another bloke in the pub's mate reckons about the moon landings, but interesting nonetheless.  :)
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Re: Reaction Times test... 'fun'
« Reply #1 on: 09 December 2015, 12:06:57 »
Started off at 43 yr old, then 33 30 & 26 ....... not bad for a 53 yr old fart  :y :y
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Re: Reaction Times test... 'fun'
« Reply #2 on: 09 December 2015, 12:13:53 »
Started at 35 and consistently 27 thereafter...
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Re: Reaction Times test... 'fun'
« Reply #3 on: 09 December 2015, 12:24:27 »
37 on the first. After that anything from 24-34. Still not bad though :y
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Re: Reaction Times test... 'fun'
« Reply #4 on: 09 December 2015, 12:25:02 »
Started off at 32 and reduced to 21-22 after that :D
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Re: Reaction Times test... 'fun'
« Reply #5 on: 09 December 2015, 12:32:19 »
consistently 31-34 .. not bad as I'm twice that !!! :)
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Re: Reaction Times test... 'fun'
« Reply #6 on: 09 December 2015, 12:35:29 »
293 milliseconds, 'we're not even sure if you're a human being'  :-\
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Re: Reaction Times test... 'fun'
« Reply #7 on: 09 December 2015, 13:11:11 »
First one 26, second 25 third 27. Pretty consistent if nowt else.
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Re: Reaction Times test... 'fun'
« Reply #8 on: 09 December 2015, 13:12:05 »
You old grandad... 291 milliseconds  :y

Not that reaction times aren't important, but I did watch a program where they took an average person on the street and a wimbledon winning tennis player and tested the one against the other. Basically they were the same. Reaction times are effectively 'preprgrammed in' to us as human beings. A tennis player appears to have better reaction time (same for a goalkeeper etc) because they predict where the ball is going before it leaves the foot/bat/racket.

Mind, that all being said, me and Stemo appear to be in the 'Airbag/pretensioner deployment' category  :D  8)
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Re: Reaction Times test... 'fun'
« Reply #9 on: 09 December 2015, 14:37:50 »
27 first, 22 second. Not bad, I'm 37.

Thought I was going to need them this morning when a large van (I missed the make - maybe an older Sprinter) decided he wanted to do significantly more than 50mph through the M3 roadworks and went from behind me in lane 3 to in front of me in lane 1 then back to lane 3 only narrowly (by inches, if that) avoiding clipping the rear corner of the car in front of me as he snaked through the gap which would have likely turned that car around and started a nice game of vehicular pinball.

Anyway.. I'll take 27. Clearly that's the only bit of me that young..  ;D
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Re: Reaction Times test... 'fun'
« Reply #10 on: 09 December 2015, 15:10:34 »
270 milliseconds...... I'm not human either Steve. Pretty good as my next big birthday will have a 7 at the start... ;)
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Re: Reaction Times test... 'fun'
« Reply #11 on: 09 December 2015, 15:13:44 »
 :y

That story, aaronjb, just proves that reaction times are one thing.. but what you do with those reaction times in the real world are what matter. If you're able to panic within 0.25 of a second that's far, far worse than taking a full second to take the correct action. The fact you're not typing this via your phone in a hospital bed proves this  :y (unless you are typing this from a hospital bed??   :-\ :D ) Glad you're still with us  :y
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Re: Reaction Times test... 'fun'
« Reply #12 on: 09 December 2015, 15:14:11 »
Quote from: Jusme on 09 December 2015, 15:10:34
270 milliseconds...... I'm not human either Steve. Pretty good as my next big birthday will have a 7 at the start... ;)


It must be what they put in the Lincolnshire water  ;)
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« Reply #13 on: 09 December 2015, 15:34:38 »
It told me to go to Specsavers....  :-\
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Re: Reaction Times test... 'fun'
« Reply #14 on: 09 December 2015, 15:58:52 »
I was so fast they said I'm not even born yet ::)
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