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Bear with me, this is going somewhere car-related.
I keep harping over a long period of time about playing Crossy Road, the silly video game that's a modern re-make of Frogger, done with cars. I can't put it down, I honestly do it every day until I get killed so so many times in a row so many times, I go to something else on the computer. Like, THIS is not going well tonight, maybe tomorrow.
I would say I'm just about below average, it's all based on hand-eye skill to begin with. I've made it up to 638 hops before getting plastered on some special occasion. And when you get up to around 300 hops from luck or skill, things start going MUCH faster. Game over sooner.
Isn't driving a fast car fast also hand-eye?
Crossy Road is done in a straight line, like Frogger. But what I equate it to, motion-wise, hand-eye-wise, visual recognition and reaction-wise, is the videos of Figure 8 racing I've seen. That style of fun seems to be more prevalent up north on asphalt tracks whenever the snow melts. That's one of the craziest but amazing forms of racing I can think of.
You can tell who's good at it, and who is just out there trying it. The guy who will win the race never slows down, usually, not ever. A few cars are bunched up at the intersection, twice per lap, waiting for traffic to pass and the race winner comes tearing through there - misses the back end of one car by an inch and the front end of another car by an inch. A T-Bone bad thing if he's wrong. It's "seeing" and "timing." Some people can, most folks can't do it all that well.
I keep harping over a long period of time about playing Crossy Road, the silly video game that's a modern re-make of Frogger, done with cars. I can't put it down, I honestly do it every day until I get killed so so many times in a row so many times, I go to something else on the computer. Like, THIS is not going well tonight, maybe tomorrow.
I would say I'm just about below average, it's all based on hand-eye skill to begin with. I've made it up to 638 hops before getting plastered on some special occasion. And when you get up to around 300 hops from luck or skill, things start going MUCH faster. Game over sooner.
Isn't driving a fast car fast also hand-eye?
Crossy Road is done in a straight line, like Frogger. But what I equate it to, motion-wise, hand-eye-wise, visual recognition and reaction-wise, is the videos of Figure 8 racing I've seen. That style of fun seems to be more prevalent up north on asphalt tracks whenever the snow melts. That's one of the craziest but amazing forms of racing I can think of.
You can tell who's good at it, and who is just out there trying it. The guy who will win the race never slows down, usually, not ever. A few cars are bunched up at the intersection, twice per lap, waiting for traffic to pass and the race winner comes tearing through there - misses the back end of one car by an inch and the front end of another car by an inch. A T-Bone bad thing if he's wrong. It's "seeing" and "timing." Some people can, most folks can't do it all that well.
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