Hello HN,
last week, I stumbled over an old project of mine called Click The Number. I built it about six years ago to compare my clicking and reaction speed with that of my friends. The idea is simple – just click on the numbers in orders as fast as possible.<p>I couldn't resist and rebuilt a lot of parts again, making them a bit nicer. I updated the design and added some features like a personal high score. It lets you keep track of your own best time (which makes it ever so _slightly_ more addictive).<p>I'm curious what you think about it, and if you have any ideas where I could take it. Have fun!<p>I wish you a great day,
Marc<p>PS: btw it's much harder on desktop. What's your personal high score?
11.01s with mouse after about 20 tries. I also decreased page size to 80%.<p>Edit: 10.99s :)<p>Edit2: 10.32s<p>Edit3: 10.15s<p>Edit4: 10.04s<p>That who learnt speed reading may have a little advantage here. There is one exercise that is called `Shultz tables` that is basically non-interactive version of this game.
I managed to get to 12.4 seconds. I noticed on my best run that I had a few lucky placements of numbers and also when I really managed to focus that I was doing some kind of mental lookahead. Funnily, whenever I would become conscious of that lookahead process and think about it, I slowed down drastically.
I thought it was testing reaction time. So I would wait for it to jiggle. Got a 165.76s. Then came here to check at the comments. And obviously I was confused.<p>All good now. Fastest time I got was 18.85s on mobile. 5 days of practice later will probably hit 15s.
I don't think the games type is accurate. To me it was less about click speed and more about my eyesight - how quickly can I find the number?<p>Click speed would be a single button and a timer, click as many times in a second or something<p>That said, 11.78 on desktop mouse.
12.25 after a few attempts on mobile. I tried to use one finger only, maybe I can get much faster with two fingers.<p>on mobile it shows up as a 6x4 array plus a 25th box centered in the 7th row, so the key is remembering what the bottom cell is because otherwise that one doesn't immediate pop out to me. in desktop mode it looks like 5x5, time to test if that is easier or harder on the computer or in desktop mode.
19.75 after a few attempts :)<p>It would be nice to have a reset button. Sometimes I get stuck in the first 10 numbers and it's obvious I'll get an horrible time, so I'd like to start again immediately.<p>Edit: Perhaps after some time like 1.5 seconds, highlight the next number so it's easier to find. I will not help too much to get a record, but it will reduce how annoying is to get stuck.