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Ten seconds of math

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Re: Ten seconds of math

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Post by TrainedMonkey »

Pretty cool, zombie mode morning with addition only and number limit of 30: "You scored 504. You are better than 100 %"

I am sure this will be easily beat by all the caffeinated people pretty soon.

Updated: this is actually easier with all the other options enabled because you get easy things like sqrt([4, 16, 25]), x * [0,1], and x / [1, 2] a lot. I was actually over 30 seconds on timer when I hit 18^2 question. "You scored 576. You are better than 100 %"

Updated 2: I tried raising number limit to max (1000) and suddenly life on hard mode. I got through 272/16 and 930/31, but third question 127 * 49 killed me. "You scored 64. You are better than 27 %"

Re: Ten seconds of math

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Post by aethertap »

TrainedMonkey wrote: post #2

Pretty cool, zombie mode morning with addition only and number limit of 30: "You scored 504. You are better than 100 %" I am sure this will be easily beat by all the caffeinated people pretty soon. Updated: this is actually easier with all the other options enabled because you get easy things like sqrt([4, 16, 25]), x * [0,1], and x / [1, 2] a lot. I was actually over 30 seconds on timer when I hit 18^2 question. "Yo…

333 was also better than 100% for the same settings...

Re: Ten seconds of math

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Post by sillysaurus3 »

When I was near the end, I pressed backspace to clear my answer, and it wound up navigating me back to HN, wiping out my results.

(I hate backspace-to-go-back. It's the worst feature in a browser. Is there a way to turn it off?)

This mental math exercise is a cool and fun concept! Good execution.

Re: Ten seconds of math

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Post by bramgg »

geonik wrote: post #4

With default settings: You scored 666 You are better than 100 %

I got lower than you after you left this comment with default settings (only addition) and it also reported better than 100%.

Re: Ten seconds of math

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Post by bramgg »

I crazy love how it auto submits your answers for you, super convenient! My dad made me do similar online mental math exercises when I was younger and I always hated how clicking "next" reduced my time. Does it take into account what your settings were when it reports your score relative to others?
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