a good solver should be able to do it much faster than 1 every 10s. As someone who sees a lot of recaptcha captchas (i.e. per week I solve probably 1k+ working

a good solver should be able to do it much faster than 1 every 10s. As someone who sees a lot of recaptcha captchas (i.e. per week I solve probably 1k+ working on a similar project) you notice patterns, that makes it much quicker and not particularly mentally taxing. With the proper tools, someone should be able to on average do them in under 5s and perhaps even faster. I just did a test, and I was able to do 20 recaptchas in a bit over a minute (65-70s, rough timer) Now, I wouldn't want to do for pay 8 hours a day, but at 3s a captcha it and at $1 per 1K captchas, one is looking at about $1/hr, which probably isn't bad in some parts of the world. (per a quick google search, "In 2009, the average monthly income in India was Rs 3000 [1]. If we assume 160 hours worked per month, that comes out to Rs 18.75 per hour, which is about 0.40 USD per hour. Given that about half of the country lives on a dollar per person per day [2], this estimate sounds reasonable.Oct 28, 2011")