February 17, 2010, 01:38 PM | #1 |
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Reaction speed
So where does your reaction speed fit in?
Human Benchmark Reaction Speed Test Apparently I'm kinda slow, 5 rounds averaged out at 218ms
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February 17, 2010, 01:59 PM | #2 |
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That's not slow. That's normal. The lower threshold for *simple* reaction speed for pretty much all humans is about 200 ms or 0.2 seconds. Even world-record holders in draw and fire from the hip average from 200 to 250 ms.
I am skeptical of many the much lower scores on the top list. Either they employed some type of program to help them, or they are truly exceptional persons. *Vs, say choice or recognition reaction times which are typically much slower. There is a fairly recent review of the biological literature on reaction time, as well as the types of reaction time and factors influencing reaction time on this webpage. |
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I averaged 214 ms over five tries, which is about how I usually do in these types of tests. The test said that the average of all testers so far is 215 ms, so I guess I'm right in the fat part of the bell curve.
EDIT - Just realized I misread the results. I actually averaged 204.6 ms over five tries. the 214 ms figure was just my last attempt, not the average of all five. Last edited by ScottRiqui; February 17, 2010 at 02:44 PM. |
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I'm at 231.8ms
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February 17, 2010, 02:12 PM | #5 |
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Reaction test
I'm at 213 average. Got one in at 208 but only one at that speed. Guess that isn't too bad for an old retired guy....
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February 17, 2010, 03:32 PM | #6 |
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Raw reaction speed is not normally as much of an issue as the time spent evaluating and judging WHAT reaction is needed.
Take emergency braking a car. The reaction time after deciding to apply the brakes is much smaller than the time needed to decide to apply them. Virginia uses 1.5 seconds for the entire reaction time in computing stopping distance. You would have to be pretty slow to spend 1.5 seconds moving your foot from the gas to the brake. |
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My average was 210.4 ms. I can't see someone getting a LOT better than 200 ms unless they can time the intervals. The electric signal travelling from your brain to your finger through your nervous system is the slowest part of the whole equation for most healthy people.
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196.0 - I had one bad click at 268 that really threw me off. Got distracted. Anyway, I made the leaderboard.
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I like this one better- it's a bit more complex.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/humanbody/sleep/sheep/ lpl
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February 17, 2010, 05:24 PM | #10 |
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I am... completely astonished.
My average was 200.2 ms... which put me on the leaderboard. There has to be a flaw in this somewhere. I'm way too old to rank #20... ETA: Lee, you're right. Those BBC sheep are fiendishly good at faking a person out. Even when they didn't fake me out, "Bobbing Bobcat" was the best I could do... That's a much more interesting test.
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Cool stuff -- but not a lot of gun-related discussion to go with it.
Close? Or leave open hoping for a sudden turn topic-ward? Hmmmmmmmm. pax |
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Not sure if it's a fair measure of reaction time. I Use my Pact shooting timer and and old Crossman air pistol to check my reaction time (if the muzzle of the gun is very near the microphone on the timer it will set it off). With my finger on the trigger, I hit the "GO!" button and I *know* the tone will follow at a random time within about 3 seconds. I can consistently get times of .10-.13 seconds with an occasional .09 thrown in just to keep me trying to be faster. It's pretty much the same on the firing line, when I'm expecting a go signal. In the real world (like reaction time to brake a vehicle or to draw on someone in public) a lot of decision making time and body motion has to be thrown into the equation.
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We used a shot timer with shooters who had their guns out and slack taken out of the trigger. On the beep, they pull the trigger. Generally speaking, younger folks tended to do better than older folks and males tended to do better than females. All in all, about .2 was the norm.
Note that I have seen at least one female who had a consistent reaction time at .15 and a grey haired old guy (I believe he was in his late 60s) that had a .17 average and have seen a college-aged guy that could not beat .25 to save his life. It is a fun test to do with a shot timer. You can see how your mental state affects your reaction time, trying when you are fresh versus when you are tired or even how medication is affecting you. I found one of my sinus medications slowed my reaction time in spite of the fact that it didn't have any sort of posted warning.
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Five tries average 184.2. That's better than I usually do.
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Five tries was 206 even.
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Well, I tried.
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