Scored 47232 before giving up...
For those who are still struggling with mental arithmetic, or kids just learning, this seems like it would be a great way to practice --- there is a a certain addictive quality to it, like "flappy bird".
Ten seconds of math
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#82When 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.
It's also "the worst" feature in Windows Explorer folder view; when it switched from going up the folder tree to going to the previous folder and throwing an error if that folder doesn't exist anymore.
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#83As a farmer, I am deeply offended by this game.
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#84After going for several minutes I gave up. In addition to a leader board, it needs to: - Have a time limit and see who can get the most calculations done on that fixed time - or, have a fixed number of calculations and see how fast people can answer them - or, it could get faster as you progress The calculation of the "you are better than X%" needs to be fixed because everybody in my office was better than 100%
I was thinking
maybe instead of a leaderboard, graphs/analysis of raw data would be very cool, such as accuracy and answers per second and total score, and how those stats match up with the rest of the people who have played
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#85Does it speed up or end eventually? I stored up 150 seconds left before I decided to quit (score of 2529).
For a moment I had the idea it was speeding up, but later on I felt like it was just an illusion. Got to 5661 before stopping.
yeah... it never ends if you're too fast.. lame...
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#86People should start differentiating between mathematics and arithmetic.
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#87For me there is a set of calculations I can do without thinking and there is a set where it takes several seconds to figure the solution out. No smooth transition. Is it the same for you? If yes, this would make tuning this game pretty hard because it is either to easy or to hard.
Yeah, I was sent a link to a similar site yesterday (timed mental arithmetic/algebra), and was thinking exactly the same thing: divided by types, half the problems I could do instantly with almost no thought, but the other half, regardless of how easy, took a few seconds.
I noticed that with, for example, multiplication, I have a set of rote-learned answers for calculations that aren't 2, 5 or *10, and if the answer isn't one of those answers, I'll get the closest answer I can remember, and work back/forward from that. It's entirely habit, and I can't stop myself doing it. Algebra as well, I always have a moment where I swap parts of the equation in my head; even if it's utterly simple, there's still a noticeable cognitive step.
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#88When 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.
> I hate backspace-to-go-back. It's the worst feature in a browser. Is there a way to turn it off?
I love this feature. Makes browser navigation keyboard friendly.
Different strokes for different folks I guess.
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#89Earlier quoted context omitted.
They should remove that. It'll get them smacked by the google spam team eventually.
If not already... You really shouldn't do stuff like that. SEO 101.
Yeah, and I don't understand why people still do that. It may work. For like a couple of weeks, before you get banned forever.
It's even easier to do stuff the right way, especially in a one page design. Just leave the logic up above. Then put a long, well written text about math, the importance of brain exercise and a description of the game with well divided H1/H2 headings, below it. Here's all the SEO you need. The link from HN and all the sites that scrape it will do the rest.
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#90People should start differentiating between mathematics and arithmetic.
Arithmetic is a (small but fundamental) subset of mathematics. I don't see anything wrong with the title.