Fun waste of Time.

Cup of tea, a ham sandwich, and a ciggie.
Avg: 0.1992
Fastest: 0.187

I stick with experience and seat time being the most important. The more seat time you have, you are no longer consciously driving, but rather consciously trying to be faster, analzing road surfaces, looking for cuts, looking for grip/braking points, etc. I think that's what we call 'seat time.'

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Grant Hughes

tedm Wrote:
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> Boy, I'm slow, at this, too.
> About a 0.25 ave.
> Oh well.
>
> Kids kill me at video games, too.

Yeah some years ago Eric Eaton's 8 year old kid was annihilating me something teerrble using the silly buttons to click and buttons to steer and he asked How am i beating you so bad? cause i'm killing you!"
I told him "I'm actually driving this thing backwards" and I was! 60 70 thru the trees, down embankments, thru crowds all BACKWARDS..
I was close to peeing myself laughing.

Only video games I can do good are shooting games, pistols, I's wuz deadly. (then again I grew up in the SOUTH shooting off 50-150 rounds a day for years.)
>
>
>
> Ted Mendham
> www.rensport.net

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John Vanlandingham
Sleezattle, WA, USA

Vive le Prole-le-ralliat

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is 3 hours behind Eastern Standard Time.

I am a solid .25'er

I know from other tests that I am not a very fast reaction time person - yet I have excelled at things like racing mountain bikes, flying airplanes, racing sailboats, and yes even rally cars.

Could be why I never think of reacting to something in the car (Bike, Plane, Boat, Etc) I make thinks happen, I know what will happen before I get into the action - I know exactly what I will make the car do. I drive it I do not react to it driving me.

In flying we say never get behind the plane - that would be reacting to it not piloting it.

ADDED EDIT
I gave the game a go again where I really focused and did all .185 to .187 ...

I am 38

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In the long run reality always wins.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 06/04/2008 12:48PM by derek.

"So what do you guys think?
Reaction time important?"

I think that short reaction time sure can't hurt driving ability, but probably is a small part of the whole thing. Probably worth working on. The difference between a good score and a fair one is about a 1/10 of a second, right? Everyone can use a few 10ths here and there. When will this matter? Everytime the driver has to respond to an unexpected situation,

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Ted Mendham
www.rensport.net

Shit I figure if I have a fast reaction time that means I fuck up a couple hundredths sooner than average...Denis Jenkinson in his book "the racing driver" says there are 5 links in a drivers' chain, from perceiving a situation to reacting to it: eyesight, nervous response (reaction time), anticipation, judgement, and muscle response. I'd say in order to arrive at the correct response, that eyesight, judgement, and anticipation are the most important. I know that pretty much every time I've gone off it's been due to deficiencies in either anticipation or judgement and not slow reflexes. yeah, dat's it, i shoulda known that my RF control arm was about to break at doowop this year....


got my avg to .1814 with a best of .141 on like my 5th attempt so I'll quit while I'm behind and try again after snorking down one of them energy drinks later. this should be an intersting experiment.

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Jay Woodward
Snohomish, WA
'90 Mazdog Frankenprotege
Chronologically, 46...



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 06/04/2008 01:09PM by Jay.

I had a really good score first time through, average .19 or .20 with several .17s. Next two times I was .23 average. Ugh. Need to concentrate...concentrate...concentrate.

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Andrew Steere
Lyndeborough, NH
KB1PJY

fiasco Wrote:
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> I had a really good score first time through,
> average .19 or .20 with several .17s. Next two
> times I was .23 average. Ugh. Need to
> concentrate...concentrate...concentrate.
>
> Andrew Steere, 1973
> Lyndeborough, NH
> KB1PJY

Andrew PRETEND to be Makinen
Stare without blinking but stay "aware", use the enter key rather than the mouse.
Control breath.

But realise it means sweet fuck-all.

And look at the Jeremy Clarkson stuff, it ain't reactions, it ain't reflexes, it's whatever, its some whacked "drive" in the medula oblongata.

Get in tune with your inner reptile!

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John Vanlandingham
Sleezattle, WA, USA

Vive le Prole-le-ralliat

www.rallyrace.net/jvab
CALL +1 206 431-9696
Remember! Pacific Standard Time
is 3 hours behind Eastern Standard Time.

Is Fiasco and his "inner reptile" in training to become a drag racer, rallyist or a four-armed diaper changer?

That's why special stage starts have clocks, so that the driver can side step the left pedal at 2 seconds before the minute. I figure that's one second to account for a poor reaction time and the second one for bystander benefit of the doubt.
;-)

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Ted Mendham
www.rensport.net

Dude with times like .14 your into the ESP realm of hyper-intuition. You can't be reacting to the green light. You gotta be looking into the future!

Similar to the Bush War strategy of preemptive attack!

Oh and also any early clicks should make the trial void. No itchy trigger fingers!

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Michael LeCompte

the pacific science center in seattle currently has an exhibit on SPEED!!!! (in a fast slanty font)

It was interesting,
there are two portions of the science center where they do reaction time stuff. at both I was 0.31 or above, i didn't linger.
I was well above average on their balance toy.
my friend and I put out .62hp getting a the rim speed of a wheel up to 211mph

go check it out, in the entrance (furthest away from space needle) they have a giant zipper and transmission/differential exhibit.

compu click game gave .25's

portland's omsi is supposed to be very cool to.

I now humbly request a seattle rallier LAZER SHOW nite.
i'll check the schedule.

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"I put the hurt on dirt" - adam crane
http://CraneRallyCrew.com
corolla gt-s "Patches"
Op: S.S.

acrane Wrote:
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> I now humbly request a seattle rallier LAZER SHOW
> nite.
> i'll check the schedule.
>
>

I haven't done that since I was in HIGHschool

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Tell me about it, horrible flashbacks here too!

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Jay Woodward
Snohomish, WA
'90 Mazdog Frankenprotege
Chronologically, 46...

acrane Wrote:
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> the pacific science center in seattle currently
> has an exhibit on SPEED!!!! (in a fast slanty
> font)
>
> It was interesting,
> there are two portions of the science center where
> they do reaction time stuff. at both I was 0.31 or
> above, i didn't linger.
> I was well above average on their balance toy.
> my friend and I put out .62hp getting a the rim
> speed of a wheel up to 211mph
>
> go check it out, in the entrance (furthest away
> from space needle) they have a giant zipper and
> transmission/differential exhibit.
>
> compu click game gave .25's
>
> portland's omsi is supposed to be very cool to.
>
> I now humbly request a seattle rallier LAZER SHOW
> nite.
> i'll check the schedule.
>
>
>
>
> "I put the hurt on dirt"
> ex. madmann28
> adam crane
> bellingham wa
> corolla gts
> bs. from VRI @ WWU


I used to work at OMSI, they wanted to train me to be a laserist but they didn't want to pay me any extra and I'd have had to work split shifts. As cool as it would have been to learn, I stayed where I was in camp and class registration.

However, laser shows are a lot of fun, I'd be up for a Portland get together.

1st-.219
2nd-.25
3rd-.25
4th-.25
5th-.25

60 years old this July.
Never had any good reflexes.
.172 best.
Average .35

Nick Leone

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Nick Leone
Former scca member