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I think you are just describing having expectations? You have done x enough times in certain situations that you expect x to be the answer or to happen again when you are in similar situations.

It can be useful but it can also be unhelpful. If you are looking for x and it turns out the answer is y you might get knifed in the back, er, or miss the non obvious error in your code.

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Yes, but it is more nuanced than that. Not that great at LoL, but in rocket league, I have sort of a 6th sense for how people will play up to a certain level. Badminton as well actually. Sometimes it feels like I can read the future when I simply calculated 3-4 hits ahead of time, and like the GP, it is supremely satisfying.

You have to calculate the probability of them hitting, also account for misses, and explore your reaction to each possibility in this tree, it sounds easy but only comes after 1000 hours or so of play..

In the code example, with that level of exp you would also foresee the possibility of failure and account for that. The more times you get knifed, the less often it happens.

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