This is studied to exhaustion in the field of cognitive psychology. One of the bottlenecks is the time it takes for the signal from your brain to make it to your fingers to trigger the response. You can decrease your response times by using the muscles closer to your brain to trigger the response rather then muscles farther away from your brain.
On Mon, Mar 9, 2015 at 4:30 PM, Matt Mahoney via AGI <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Mar 9, 2015 at 4:13 PM, Matt Mahoney <[email protected]> > wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 9, 2015 at 2:41 PM, Steve Richfield > > <[email protected]> wrote: > >> You can test your own "clock speed" in a few seconds here: > >> > >> https://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/java/redgreen.html > >> > >> My own times vary over a ~2:1 range, from 1/4 second when I am wide > awake > >> and at 98.6F, to 1/2 second in the morning after missing some sleep. > > > > 0.242 average (range .193 to .325). > > I did some reaction time experiments like this on my Commodore 64 in > my mid-late 20's (I am 59 now). For a test like this, I got about the > same result (0.25 sec). I also did experiments to see what stimuli > produced the fastest times. I got similar results using a sound > instead of an image change. For the fastest times (about 0.2 sec) I > combined them by changing the whole screen from black to white and > playing a loud noise at the same time. I also confirmed experimentally > that alcohol slows reaction times. > > -- > -- Matt Mahoney, [email protected] > > > ------------------------------------------- > AGI > Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now > RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/26973278-698fd9ee > Modify Your Subscription: > https://www.listbox.com/member/?&; > Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com > ------------------------------------------- AGI Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/21088071-f452e424 Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=21088071&id_secret=21088071-58d57657 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
