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Try with "Estimation Math", "Random", and "Hard".
A friend of mine told me about this website. He used it to practice for interviews. I took it as a game. It's less about precision and more about "close enough" but quick calculations. After a while, you learn to focus on the most critical part of each question, which depends upon the operator and the number of digits, and dismiss what's irrelevant.
This is cool. I would like to make it multiplayer with websockets. Similar to an old multiplayer math game I made in school. http://get24.jit.su
How do you play? I tried to click on the "Help" button, but it didn't work, so I have no idea what to do.
Cool little Game ! As a lot of people here, I threw together some JS to try and 'hack' the challenge. As mentioned by OP, this is "staggeringly" easy to do. Yet, I was wondering : How would you go around to preventing such a behavior ? I would try obfuscating the problem a little bit : * Display an image instead of a text (using canvas for quick drawing ? You'd have to create the images server side to really be sure)…
since it's client side, it's physically impossible to completely prevent cheating :( using images instead of text and changing element id's and things would certainly make it harder to hack though!
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I thought it would motivate people to try harder, but I guess it's backfiring... sorry! I'll change it
"It should not take N seconds" - I was doing it on an iPad!
I wonder if teaching people analog math would be better. This is more practical if you don't need exact quantities, and more in line with how your brain actually works. Symbolic math isn't "natural" and you learn it not by generalizing but by memorizing a large number of facts and heuristics. But your brain is really good at approximating continuous functions. Imagine how much complex math goes on in your brain when…
Just wanted to say that you should sanitize the leader board. Some of those usernames completely turn me off from the concept.
I went all the way, simulated keydowns and all. (Thanks, http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4158847/is-there-a-way-to... ) var element = document.getElementById('answer');var y = document.getElementById('question');var dispatchKeyboardEvent = function(target, initKeyboradEvent_args) {var e = document.createEvent("KeyboardEvents");e.initKeyboardEvent.apply(e, Array.prototype.slice.call(arguments, 1));target.dispatchEv…
I've always been extremely bad at things like this. Working quickly is one thing I cannot seem to do. Which makes this extremely good practice of course! Last week I cleaned up a lot my room and went through stuff from primary school. Speedruns, where we had a sheet of sums that we had to solve as quickly as possible, always showed I was within the bottom half of the class (I don't remember the exact number), while m…
I'm 30 now, and a little better at it, but I'm still relatively shitty with timed thinking exercises, and being graded in general. Reminds me of university where I did poorly on exams. I'd have graduated with a much better GPA if it weren't for my anxiety over them. The worst classes were the ones with finals worth 50% of the total grade. I'd waste 2 hours pulling my hair out imagining what it would be like if I fail…
Though I wasn't good at those speed tests, I'm generally not that frightened to do them. If I fail, so be it, nothing to change about it at that point except do my best. The period of anxiety is always just before starting, doubting whether I put enough work into it and whether I could get any studying done in 5 minutes.
Contrarily to most other students it seems, I'm hardly ever anxious to learn the results of a test after I've made it. I'm curious of course, but not anxious to know whether I failed or not. It even gets on my nerves to hear everyone analyzing each minor detail of the test like a post-mortem. I usually ask around if someone knows the answer to something I completely missed out on (if anything) and that's about it.