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After 34 years, someone beat Tetris [video]

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Re: After 34 years, someone beat Tetris [video]

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danielvaughn wrote: post #65
anticorporate wrote: post #63

I only ever knew the version of Tetris that shipped with the Windows Entertainment Pack https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Entertainment_Pack >. Since this version was made for 16-bit Windows, it was no surprise that they used a 16-bit integer to store your score. What was surprising is that they used a signed 16-bit integer, meaning that after you passed 32,767 points, your score would roll over into the negati…

I played Minesweeper almost every day during the summer in the 90's. I got so good at it that I eventually whittled down my time to a mere 17 seconds on the largest puzzle (expert). At that point I figured I couldn't get any faster, and moved on to a new game. Years later, I was looking at the Guiness Book of World Records and noticed that the record for the expert minesweeper is something like 25 seconds. Of course,…

Nice one! I bet lots of world records are casually beat like that - the overlap between “nerdy enough to get insanely good at, say, a puzzle video game” and “extroverted/arrogant enough to draw global attention to the accomplishment” seems pretty small.

Re: After 34 years, someone beat Tetris [video]

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AndrewKemendo wrote: post #24

The last couple of years in Tetris have been wild I grew up with Tetris and playing a traditional DAS [1] style and never was able to put the time into learning hypertapping. Once rolling came out a few years ago I totally abandoned trying to keep up. My highest score was almost a maxout on 29 Something you'll notice too is that the younger players are crushing the traditional players by changing the rules. So, NOBOD…

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Re: After 34 years, someone beat Tetris [video]

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jasoneckert wrote: post #149
turtlebits wrote: post #106

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The default font-family for that page is cursive, you see during the FOUC (before the webfont loads). Maybe the user has web fonts disabled?

Author here. I just changed the default font in the css from cursive to regular for those who have web fonts disabled. Try it now ;-)

Don't pander to the haters!

PS love the by-line "WARNING: FULL FRONTAL NERDITY"

Re: After 34 years, someone beat Tetris [video]

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Post by Lapsa »

imiric wrote: post #142
kypro wrote: post #5

It's almost inhuman how good some people can get at rapid and highly complex muscle movements with enough practise. What an amazing achievement.

I think there's a reason most top Tetris players are kids. There's no way an adult could achieve the same level of hand-eye coordination, no matter how much they practice. This is also why young players are generally better at first-person shooters, and why I'm unlikely to stay alive for more than a minute in CoD. ':)

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Re: After 34 years, someone beat Tetris [video]

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Post by lifthrasiir »

danielvaughn wrote: post #65
anticorporate wrote: post #63

I only ever knew the version of Tetris that shipped with the Windows Entertainment Pack https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Entertainment_Pack >. Since this version was made for 16-bit Windows, it was no surprise that they used a 16-bit integer to store your score. What was surprising is that they used a signed 16-bit integer, meaning that after you passed 32,767 points, your score would roll over into the negati…

I played Minesweeper almost every day during the summer in the 90's. I got so good at it that I eventually whittled down my time to a mere 17 seconds on the largest puzzle (expert). At that point I figured I couldn't get any faster, and moved on to a new game. Years later, I was looking at the Guiness Book of World Records and noticed that the record for the expert minesweeper is something like 25 seconds. Of course,…

The current record [1] is in fact 26.59 seconds for expert. This doesn't make you an unofficial world record holder because, among other reasons, the chance is that you have encountered an easy enough board by chance. The most popular measure of board difficulty is 3BV, defined as the minimum number of left clicks to solve that particular board, and should be at least 100 for the expert record to be recognized. This makes the current record extremely impressive---someone somehow clicked 4+ times second and correctly solved the whole table!

[1] https://minesweepergame.com/world-records.php

Re: After 34 years, someone beat Tetris [video]

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munificent wrote: post #82
johnisgood wrote: post #19

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When I made a game crash through a bug before I did not consider myself beating the game, that is why I have or had difficulties understanding. I suppose the difference is making it crash through playing as many levels, for example, as possible.

Some games don't have deliberately implemented "you win" screens and gameplay can in theory go forever unless the game has a bug that prevents advancing. In a game with no human-authored intentional "win state", one reasonable definition of "beating the game" is "reaching a state that no other player is able to surpass". If the game crashes at a certain point, then reaching that crash is a viable state that fits that…

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Re: After 34 years, someone beat Tetris [video]

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Post by thechao »

whatshisface wrote: post #30
somenameforme wrote: post #6

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And mental, think about something like chess! In general it's just incredible how good we can become at anything. It's kind of interesting to think about in times long past where warfare was melee based and how there would have been similar outliers. Somebody who lucked into some good genetics, good diet, and good training would have been a mountain among men.

They must have been incredibly disappointed when they first encountered a well-disciplined line of mediocre pikemen!

Discipline, not training, for sure! The Spartans considered training (for war) to be demeaning.

https://acoup.blog/2019/08/16/collections-this-isnt-sparta-p...

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