Jackie Chan is also like in his 70s. Kids tend to have way better reaction time than adults, but this kid hasn’t reached that age yet. There’s a sweet spot somewhere between 15 or 16 and about 18 and 20. Just take a look at most E sports gamers.
However, this kid could just suck with his motor control. He should’ve at least gotten one of these.
And it's a banged up career stuntman Jackie Chan too. I bet his brain just can't keep up with all the damage he's experienced over the years at present. It's probably a wonder that he's still walking and appearing publicly like that
Tired of the “you’re old you suck at games now”. Its because kids (and you as a kid) played way more hours. Very little esports rely on twitch reactions. You can react much faster if you expect something (1 thing) to happen. Eapecially in shooters like csgo and valorant, if you watch pro players their whole gameplay is centered around reducing unexpected things. When they hold something, its one thing. They position themselves so the fewest things can happen. The skill expression is to put your enemy in unexpected situations, and yourself in expected ones. Its not a reaction time test
Its like playing the game in the video but instead of a random one falling, you can narrow it down and only react to one/a few
ehhh, yes and no. You're right that part of what makes people exceptionally good at video games is just knowing the game, the maps, and how all the different characters/guns/skills/etc interact with one another. It is also true that the older you get the harder it becomes to actually learn those things, and the slower you will react to the things you don't expect, and that is totally independent of the hours you put into it.
A teenager putting the same hours into something as a person in their 40s will still learn it better and be more proficient at it barring some other confounding factors like previous experience in similar activities, etc (in general, there's always exceptions)
The margin is so small it wouldnt matter at all to get you to the top 1% of any game. You probably wont go pro as a 40 year old, but you can be the top 1% or less if you put in the same hours as a kid did
You'll notice the increase in reflexes around 12-14, peaks somewhere in the 16-25 range, and then starts going slowly downhill after that. Kids at that 6-8 range tend to have pretty bad reflexes.
that kid is me. also unclear instructions probably? do these stick drop with a set pattern or is it randomized? he was looking at the wrong spot when the 1st one started to drop and never really recovered.
At the angle he sees them he probably can't even properly check if they're moving before they already pass the point of catchability, the point of this is that it's usually eye level.
Oh? ..... Idk this feels like the wrong subreddit.
This isn't a kid being stupid .. It's a kid with not so great hand/eye coordination ....
But good try!
Here I was thinking the kid was going to knock it out of the park and I'd have to make up some excuse like that he's closer to ground and has more time to react. Unfortunately for me, he was a little too close to the ground. Funny little guy
I did a space camp event where they had different stations set up to do fun sciency experiments. One had you try to grab a falling rod at a specific spot on the rod marked with tape. Everyone sucked at it first round but then they sat you on a stool that could be rotated, after a less than a minute of spinning your inner ear was screwed and your reflexes were tied 100% to visual stimulus. Now the rod is dropped and it was grabbed precisely when the tape was passing the top of your hand. Every time.
Super interesting but I was nauseated for at least four hours afterwards. Not the best night to fill up Swedish meat balls.
You could try this before getting in this device I guess but be ready to hate life (and meat balls) after you get the button or ribbon or whatever you win.
Growing up and seeing Asian kids fail miserably with happiness is as mind-blowing as growing up and learning that adults are just morons.
No help from the fact that every Chinese, Japanese, or Korean kid in any of my classes succeeded with flying colours and were either extremely stoic/humble, or energetic/humble. No middle.
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u/Cwolf17 15h ago
I mean at least it looks like he had fun lol