reaction time

[Pi]

this may fit in other places better but i'm curious primarily about competitive melee players results so i'm posting this here

http://getyourwebsitehere.com/jswb/rttest01.html

this is a reaction speed test, it was the first one google came up with so yea...if you know of a more accurate one or w/e feel free to post

if you would, go ahead and take the test and record your first avg.
then if you want to do it a bunch record your fastest avg. (no guessing guys come on lol)

just go ahead and take the test and post your first avg. and then you're best avg. if you want

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this was my 2nd time taking it, i didn't think of recording my first one or making htis thread till after i was done w/ first lol
1. 0.191
2. 0.233
3. 0.218
4. 0.204
5. 0.206
AVG. 0.2104[/collapse]

if this is accurate, when in a situation where you're expecting an action to occur, 0.2104 is like...how many frames (60fps)? 13?

 

[Strong Badam]

assuming you can react to a specific frame of an animation or movement instead of a green light you're watching passively while doing nothing else lol

 

[Pi]

assuming you can react to a specific frame of an animation or movement instead of a green light you're watching passively while doing nothing else lol

right but i'm thinking for situations where the timing is strict only on 1 option

like getup attack vs. roll or w/e

situations where you are anticipating 1 thing to occur, and only that 1 thing

obv. melee is different and there are many options that you should cover instead of focusing on one, so let's not get into any of that

 

[Sizzle]

Challenge Taj, he is quite fast at reaction games like these.

 

[leffen]

avg first time =0,18600000000000000

 

[ss118]

It's a good thing I use Marth. First run I averaged on 0.2404

I'm also in class, so not sure if that has any effect.

 

[BigD!!!]

first time average was .3424

 

[Smurfy EXE]

crushnasty

 

[Mr Wizzrobe]

First average was 0.286.

 

[_Rocky_]

first avg = 0,222

 

[TheDekuNut]

.06033 (i just spammed click) do i win?

good **** leffen

 

[mers]

.26 or so. I'm slow I guess.

 

[bolt.]

.2062 avg
Not bad I guess. I feel like it could have been a lot faster though.

 

[Fly_Amanita]

There are a few different types of reaction times that are interesting to look into. Wikipedia's mental chronometry page is a good reference.

Anyways, on this particular test, my average was 0.281, which is fairly typical of me; my performance on these sorts of things is never particularly good.

 

[Winston]

~.26 as well.

god damnit leffen, haha.

 

[-Ran]

http://www.humanbenchmark.com/tests/reactiontime/index.php

That's a better test, since it penalizes you for pressing the button too soon. The average reaction time to their Red/Green test is 215 ms. This would infer that the average reaction time is almost 13 frames. However, in Smash we have more going for us than a simple on/off switch. Aside from the fact that we play the games so extensively [faster mental pathways are formed], we have the predictive and knowledge based aspects of Smash. This allows us to react substantially faster.

 

[Pi]

ic ic good results
wtf leffen
good results lol

 

[choknater]

yeah my averages are around .25

are there ways to improve or exercise this?

 

[ArcNatural]

yeah my averages are around .25

are there ways to improve or exercise this?

Yes, I can't think of any simple ones atm. But a one method I have heard of is having 3 colored balls someone throws up all three and yells the color they want you to catch.

 

[MasterShake]

.319...haha I feel so slow compared to everyone else.

 

[Pi]

btw what is going through ya'lls heads while waiting for the color to switch?
i start thinking about everything going on around me and telling myself not to focus on that (ironic lol)
and keep reminding myself 'when it turns green, click, when it turns green click'
also 'don't blink, don't blink, you can not blink for like 2 seconds dude it's not hard'
subsequently my eyes become really dry quickly lol.

 

[_Rocky_]

did this again with the humanbenchmark one and got 0,187 as an avg out of 5 rounds

 

[-ACE-]

.22 average

 

[Pi]

0.211 for the humanbenchmark

http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/506685

this thing is pretty fun too

 

[-ACE-]

interesting second try lol

 

[Elyssa Xey Hexen]

.285 seconds

I think these tests are somewhat irrelevant. It misses out on a few things that people can train for which drastically reduces 'reaction times'.

1) Practice can cut down your execution time.
-Pressing the mouse button is like getting used to shine -> wavedash. With enough practice you will get much faster at doing it up to a point.
2) Familiarity with the game will provide you with some clues ahead of the point where you will actually recognize something happened.
-Say Fox uses Uthrow, this is a indicator to you that you are about to get hit and you should DI to survive the following Uair. So, you know about what happens before hand and can prep for it before you actually see yourself get hit by Uair. An analogy with this test would be if it gave you a count down to when the light would turn green.

The last thing is any conscious decisions you might make rather than subconscious. Your thinking time varies depending upon if you have experience.With experience you have a list of options to fall back on and you only have to think about which to use. Without the prior experience, you have to generate a solution yourself.
Even when you are completely unprepared for something, I doubt your 'reaction time' would be similar to the times here. There is simply too much overlap in smash for any of these tests to be reliable at telling you if you 'react' faster than someone else.

 

[Pi]

everyone do this one
http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/506685
it has a leaderboard that gets updated/refreshed daily lol

0.188 beat me!

.285 seconds

I think these tests are somewhat irrelevant. It misses out on a few things that people can train for which drastically reduces 'reaction times'.

1) Practice can cut down your execution time.
-Pressing the mouse button is like getting used to shine -> wavedash. With enough practice you will get much faster at doing it up to a point.
2) Familiarity with the game will provide you with some clues ahead of the point where you will actually recognize something happened.
-Say Fox uses Uthrow, this is a indicator to you that you are about to get hit and you should DI to survive the following Uair. So, you know about what happens before hand and can prep for it before you actually see yourself get hit by Uair. An analogy with this test would be if it gave you a count down to when the light would turn green.

The last thing is any conscious decisions you might make rather than subconscious. Your thinking time varies depending upon if you have experience.With experience you have a list of options to fall back on and you only have to think about which to use. Without the prior experience, you have to generate a solution yourself.
Even when you are completely unprepared for something, I doubt your 'reaction time' would be similar to the times here. There is simply too much overlap in smash for any of these tests to be reliable at telling you if you 'react' faster than someone else.

obv. melee is different and there are many options that you should cover instead of focusing on one, so let's not get into any of that

yes i recognize that not everything in melee is based solely around reaction time, but it's definitely a factor in some situations

 

[JPOBS]

my first avg is .414 haha
im also using the touchpad on my laptop so im claling johns

edit: just redid it using a mouse button and got .25 lulz

 

[Winston]

To the people pointing out the other factors in melee etc. etc.

Obviously he (OP)'s not saying this test is super related to everything in melee, but there are some situations that are directly related to the test.

The main one is standing next to them as they are lying on the ground, and shielding on reaction to their getup attack. Though difficult, it's not out of the question if you have are really good at this particular type of reaction. if you can do this then you can cover all of their options

 

[Elyssa Xey Hexen]

This world reaction one is interesting though to compare a visual vs sound response. Sound is slower than visual.

 

[Ryucloud]

seems like a good way to pratice reaction

 

[JPOBS]

This world reaction one is interesting though to compare a visual vs sound response. Sound is slower than visual.

sound travels way slower than light. So your response time is goign slowing because you're hearing the sound later than you would see a color change. We're talking on a scale of a few hundredths of a second of course.

 

[Elyssa Xey Hexen]

I don't think it's a factor. The fastest visual time are about 0.030 seconds faster than any of the sound ones which is ten times more than the amount of time spent traveling in the air of 0.003 for a whole meter.
That seems like a human response for being the issue between sound vs visual times, not that sound travels slower than light.

 

[Dr Peepee]

All I've ever heard one can do to improve reaction time is to do things like this a lot.

 

[Pi]

I don't think it's a factor. The fastest visual time are about 0.030 seconds faster than any of the sound ones which is ten times more than the amount of time spent traveling in the air of 0.003 for a whole meter.
That seems like a human response for being the issue between sound vs visual times, not that sound travels slower than light.

there's probably more variables/factors that go on in playing a sound from your speakers rather than just displaying a different image

 

[Deleted member]

.3535

guess tech chasing isn't (mostly) reaction

 

[enCouRaging Bear]

are these things not affected by internet lag?

 

[leffen]

tried the other one a few times, got 159,5. Its still hella slow when you consider some of the frame windows in melee .

 

[kevlar]

The average is 215. I got 213...
:S

 

[Pengie]

Got 207.8 as an average on Human benchmark. There should be a smashboards leaderboard for ****s and giggles XD