Does anyone else feel their brain “heat up” when doing intensive thinking like this?
Yes :)
Show HN: Test your shape rotation skills
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#93It’s easy to just guess a few times and get it right. At least wrong guesses should have time penalty.
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#9412 matches on my first go. Not very impressive, but likely an indicator of my middling IQ.
That's impressive to me. I got 4 on my first go, 6 on my second and I doubt I'll be going much higher without significant practice. I find it extremely hard and made several wrong atttempts in addition to being slow.
Please forgive me for being cynical but it feels like he is boasting especially as he starts talking about intellect then downplaying it.
Just my take but maybe I’m just jealous ! I could only get to 6 shapes.
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#95Needs to place you on a bell curve against prior completions.
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#96This is great, but I wish length never mattered. Counting blocks is drab, and length not mattering makes the equivalence class more exciting, IMO.
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#98I’d be really curious to collect gender before testing, because I feel like this is always one of those go to examples of the difference and male and female brains, would be curious to know if there is any substantial actual difference.
I read in a psychology book that this is one of the (few) cases where there’s a big gender difference in intelligence: males statistically do a lot better at this than females, and I believe those with higher testosterone also statistically do better.
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#99This is great! I work on visualizations all day and it’s a real skill to interpret size and angle of 3D shapes. 10 seconds per shape on my first play through. I think I would have been a lot worse if the shapes didn’t move.
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#100Damn, that's surprisingly difficult. But I think I shouldn't be allowed to brute-force answers (that's really tempting in the current design) and I'd probably appreciate if shapes were standing still, since the movement is distracting and barely relates to the skill being tested.
I think they move so that they aren't accidentally covering up crucial bits, and so you get a sense for them in 3d. I'd also like it if they moved less, or had a pause button though.