   Inhuman skills (in Tetris)
">Link.That's about 3 pieces per second. I won't say this is impossible because that's what I said about Unreal Tournament on Godlike until a friend of mine beat it on Godlike, or a clean run of some Tiesto track on Audiosurf until I could do it myself. I will, however, digress and allow some space on this one. And, please, don't say it's about being focused and keeping your cool - we're talking weird superhuman bricklaying skills here.Incidentally, ">this is not much less insane.   
  That's not really that impressive.  The piece doesn't 'lock' until you stop sliding it left or right. That's roughly what it looks like when I play it.The 'trick' is just figuring out where the next piece will go while watching/sliding the active piece into the spot you decided last round.   ;  If you think that's bad, after xkcd produced this:Someone developed this.   ;Quote:Original post by necreiaThat's not really that impressive.  The piece doesn't 'lock' until you stop sliding it left or right. That's roughly what it looks like when I play it.The 'trick' is just figuring out where the next piece will go while watching/sliding the active piece into the spot you decided last round.That does sound pretty impressive to me :P   ;  Well, if we're going to post links to impressive stunts of game playing, ">here is one of my favorites.   ;  Ikaruga is hands down the hardest and best game ever made for dreamcast...As for the grandmaster videos, it's not that impressive. Actually in quite a few versions of tetris it's easy to play that fast(Microsoft Tetris comes to mind). As the posters above said, you have a delay between when the block hits the bottom and it's final position.">street fighter">Hardest Top Down IMO;Quote:Original post by necreiaThat's not really that impressive.  The piece doesn't 'lock' until you stop sliding it left or right. That's roughly what it looks like when I play it.The 'trick' is just figuring out where the next piece will go while watching/sliding the active piece into the spot you decided last round.Well - to me, from a bystander's perspective, placing 3 tiles a second for several minutes without a break seems pretty impressive :)PS - I did notice the sliding bit, but what is a bit inhuman to me is the ability to mentally place a tile before it comes on screen (that is, rotate it and place it - even if you have a pile in the middle of the stack and youreally need to recover) while, at the same time, physically placing the previous tile.That's why the Minesweeper video is equally impressive - being able to mark and keep track of mines is not something that the brain can "just do" (yes, the brain is awesome at visual pattern recognition, but the common denominator here being the fact that despite its massive parallel visual processing power, it can really only process one thing at a time. Although - the brain may be very effective at multitasking in certain cases). Of course the notion of "habit" (eg automatic reflexes) help a lot. But still...Quote:Original post by necreiaHardest Top Down IMOAfter the two minute mark that's one big LOL :)   ;  I think they don't even look at the blocks nor concentrate at any specific location. They know the shape from the color without directly looking what comes next, and their minds process the rest, the surface area as patterns. This goes both for tetris and minesweeper. Both would be 10 times harder when played in black and white.Most impressive about the tetris is that he must slide the blocks, and create smooth surface before he's able to. So keeping the center at highest.There was some document about best chess players where they said the player mostly "feels" the situtation and uses patterns and past experiences, and makes the moves by intuition.Also I remember older article about tetris, stating that played enough it has been noticed to create synapses in brain to solve tetris problems more easily. I think I saw somewhere the same happens when doing some unusual task long enough, like brushing your teeth with left hand (or with right if youre lefty).   ;Quote:Original post by FtnAlso I remember older article about tetris, stating that played enough it has been noticed to create synapses in brain to solve tetris problems more easily. I think I saw somewhere the same happens when doing some unusual task long enough, like brushing your teeth with left hand (or with right if youre lefty).The real tetris masters brush their teeth with two brushes at once!   ;Quote:Original post by DevFredQuote:Original post by FtnAlso I remember older article about tetris, stating that played enough it has been noticed to create synapses in brain to solve tetris problems more easily. I think I saw somewhere the same happens when doing some unusual task long enough, like brushing your teeth with left hand (or with right if youre lefty).The real tetris masters brush their teeth with two brushes at once!Four toothbrushes at once!   