Click the Colour

[KingOfDoma]

AND NOT THE WORDS.

... I got 57. Get to level 10 and I'll worship you as unto a god. <p>

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[Capntastic]

37. Lame :(

[Animala]

221.

Some observations:

I find I tend to miss ones right after the colors actually match, e.g. <font color=red>red</font>, or ones where the word and the color combine to make a correct choice. <font color=yellow>red</font> makes me want to click orange.

And I never miss pink.

(edit) Pro Tip: Turn down the sound. Good luck choosing the right color when it says <font color=yellow>blue</font> while the background music hits "it's green on the screen"(/edit)

-Koss <p>

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to make the pain go away
i cut the universe
with ribbons
because that makes perfect sense.</p>Edited by: [url=http://p068.ezboard.com/brpgww60462.showUserPublicProfile?gid=whiteknightdelta>White]&nbsp; at: 10/10/05 23:07

[Capntastic]

I never missed pink either.

Edit: I wasn't applying my headphones, so I didn't know there was annoying sounds! That adds a whole level of depth to something I don't really care about :D Neato.

Edited by: [url=http://p068.ezboard.com/brpgww60462.showUserPublicProfile?gid=capntastic>Capntastic</A]&nbsp; at: 10/10/05 23:10

[Archmage144]

I wear glasses and have astigmatism--my trick is to memorize the locations of the buttons and not read the words, because if I cross my eyes ever so slightly and am looking at the screen from under my glasses I more or less can't--it's much easier to see the color than it is to read the word, which is irrelevant anyway.

I only got 20 my first run-through, but I opine that that's just because I don't have time to sit and play for hours at the moment. <p>

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[Banjooie]

I find the best thing to do is just to unfocus your eyes, so you can't read the word. <p><Chat> <Matto says, "What's up?"
<Chat> <Prince_Herb says, "Angst."
<Chat> <Prince_Herb says, "Drama."
<Chat> <Prince_Herb says, "Betrayal."
<Chat> <Prince_Herb says, "Plushies."</p>

[PriamNevhausten]

I used my peripheral vision to eschew the actual reading of the word, looking at something else instead. Memorizing the buttons turned out to be super-mandatory, and that kind of bothers me.

Also, I got 78 the first time after I figured out what was going on. <p><span style="font-size:xx-small;">"It's in the air, in the headlines in the newspapers, in the blurry images on television. It is a secret you have yet to grasp, although the first syllable has been spoken in a dream you cannot quite recall." --Unknown Armies</span></p>

[Animala]

To give this far more thought than it deserves:

What makes this task difficult is that there are effectively two messages being sent every time a word is presented, and only one of them is important to the task.

It isn't hard to extract the relevant infromation, I don't think. It isn't hard to see that the word <font color=blue>red</font> is, in fact, blue. The trouble is that you need to be able to completely discard the irrelevant information.

If you can avoid reading the word, that works nicely. I didn't do that: I just think the color very loudly. I hear things when I read them, see, so I need to make sure the color drowns out the sound of what I've read.

The second task is to take that information and respond appropriately. And here's the conundrum: in order to respond appropriately, you have to take the information you obtained by denying the significance of the written word and choose from buttons which are labeled with words.

That, I think, is why memorization is so key. If you memorize the lcoations of the buttons and avoid reading the word, then you never have to recognize any meaning from the language at all.

-Koss <p>

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to make the pain go away
i cut the universe
with ribbons
because that makes perfect sense.</p>

[PriamNevhausten]

Which is why the experiment which this flash is emulating is so reduced in its efficacy in demonstrating the principle. Normally, the experimenter has, say, a poster with these color words on it, a lot of them. Each word is colored, of course, and each so in a way such that the color it IS is not the color it says. However, subjects are forced to implement their language centers anyway, as they are asked to verbally state the color of the words out loud to the experimenter. This is notably more difficult. <p><span style="font-size:xx-small;">"It's in the air, in the headlines in the newspapers, in the blurry images on television. It is a secret you have yet to grasp, although the first syllable has been spoken in a dream you cannot quite recall." --Unknown Armies</span></p>

[SALSAlys]

I got 51. I mourn.

[BrainWalker]

Ineffectual, perhaps, but still entertaining. I scored 45 on my first "Oh, so THAT'S what I'm supposed to be doing." run-through. Button memorization helps, but I feel dirty crossing my eyes or whatever to ignore the words I'm supposed to be looking at. <p><div style="text-align:center"></div></p>

[Evil Killer Poptarts]

I got 18, but I was having a hard time with my mouse. It kept sticking and I was having trouble moving it to the correct button. Is there a key correspondence? Can I type some random letter (or the first letter of the word) to choose? That would make this task easier.

The task involving saying it out loud always kicks my butt. As soon as a color and a word correspond, I lose my concentration. <p><div style="text-align:center"></div></p>

[PriamNevhausten]

They didn't enable any sort of hotkeys in the flash, I'm afraid. It would be nice if they made the buttons thicker, too. <p><span style="font-size:xx-small;">"It's in the air, in the headlines in the newspapers, in the blurry images on television. It is a secret you have yet to grasp, although the first syllable has been spoken in a dream you cannot quite recall." --Unknown Armies</span></p>

[Blackwind Isao]

Well I get to 250 before I can't respond fast enough to click the correct thing in time. The trick of it seems to be to ignore the word altogether and have the button locations memorized. Gives me a relatively large amount of time to click the correct button. I wish the damn things were a bit larger so I would quit missing them on higher levels.

- Blackwind.

Edited by: [url=http://p068.ezboard.com/brpgww60462.showUserPublicProfile?gid=blackwindisao>Blackwind] at: 10/11/05 15:04

[Will Rennar]

My ability to follow directions is dead. ;_;

WILREN TOP SCORE: 0 <p>This has been your daily interrupted moment of Zen.</p>

[BrainWalker]

Shit man, aren't you in the service of our nation's armed forces? Following orders should come naturally :( <p><div style="text-align:center"></div></p>

[Dragon Sage007]

I found a way to cheat. :{ If you right-click, and then hit play, you can pause the game until you hit the right button.

However, I got bored with it by the time I managed to click the right word (Without cheating) 233 times. <p>

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<div style="text-align:center">I have no idea how this happened. Really</div></p>