Click on the tile that has a different color

After running across this game a few days ago, I became curious if playing it would develop any sort of skill, or at least if my scores would improve over time.

Over about a week of casual (and briefly, obsessive) playing, I kept track of my scores in a text file.

Within 30 games or so, my score had climbed from 26 on the first game to normally 42-44, topping at 46. Over probably 50 more games, I did not notice any further increase in average or top score.

During that second block of 50ish games, the novelty of keeping track wore off, and I deleted the file. If I play now (after a few hundred games), I am still hoping for a high 40s score, and feel as though I have made serious mistakes with a score in the low 30s.

Other factors to consider: I have been "watching" television through most of the games (>70%), which is to say listening and occasionally glancing from the game to the show. Also, I noted some games where I spent time speaking out loud to other people in the room, and found that my scores were consistently lower on those (29-33).

From this (pathetic) study, it appears that the skill of playing this game can be developed through casual effort, but only to a limited extent. The structure of the game -- specifically, failing to continue to get harder past score 32 or so -- may contribute to this.

The skill being improved may or may not be colour-difference detection, because mouse accuracy and speed of decision matter a lot in this game as well.

/pretending to run a study

I was looking forward to getting told which web sites I visited recently. What a bummer...

It's a shame this is blocked at work. I tried it at home on my PC, and I can't seem to get past lv23. This monitor, an Acer, was purchased specifically because it was one of the cheapest 1080's available at the time with favorable reviews. It's calibrated for contrast and gamma, but that doesn't seem to be enough. One of my monitors at work, however, is a calibrated Dell UltraSharp IPS. I managed to score a 7 with it on a color recognition test[1] that was posted here on HN a couple of weeks ago.

[1] http://www.xrite.com/online-color-test-challenge

鑑定結果，你是【色狼lv87】！要不要通知下小伙伴們呢？

also the memory game is nice to train ... well visual memory.

http://game.ioxapp.com/memtest/

You got 168 , look like 30 years old.

Fun game.

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My message said:

> 鑑定結果，你是【色狼lv31】！要不要通知下小伙伴們呢？

Which Google Translate, translates to:

> Identification results, you are [pervert lv31]! Not to notice little friends do?

Why am I a pervert?

Can't make out the difference between the purple coloured tiles. Color-blindness?

色郎lv22 hooray. I didn't notice the timer until the end.

Cool. I was able to get to level 29.

26.

suspicious.