I'm only 27 and I suck at these tests. This year alone I've run the gamut working frontend, backend (Spring), services (clojure), elasticsearch, and a bit of de

I'm only 27 and I suck at these tests. This year alone I've run the gamut working frontend, backend (Spring), services (clojure), elasticsearch, and a bit of devops. I tried one last night after a nine hour work day in JavaScript and it kicked my butt. First I was thinking solution X but eventually realized Y was simpler, so then I've wasted a bunch of time because the pressures on coding quickly instead of "mulling" over as you mentioned. It was similar with a Ruby one which I prepared for by running through the Ruby Koans. Lots of time spent looking up syntax, and the vast majority of the time I'm not starting entire repos from scratch, so a lot of simple but not oft repeated things can trick you up to. And, to be quite frank, when I'm at home, and I want to program, I want to work on my over engineered, terribly underdeveloped personal website where I get to do things I don't normally do, putz around with erlang and postgres, do the devops and all that other stuff. Ahh the afflictions of the affluent!