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Impossible for the HN crowd: Do nothing for 2 minutes
- Khao 16y agoI'm sad that it said I failed when I pressed the "Volume Up" key on my keyboard.. I couldn't hear the waves!
- blinks 16y agoSeems like it should just reset in that case. Honestly, didn't find it too difficult; just dropped into chair-zazen for a couple minutes.
- coderholic 16y agoWhen you fail it only resets the counter, and then continues to count down. Just wait another 2 minutes! :)
- mcantor 16y agoStrangely "Fails" for me every 3 seconds (Chrome stable, Windows Vista, Vimium installed).
- coderholic 16y agoI've hooked up the resetCounter function to quite a few events, including "blur". Have you got another window that's stealing the focus regularly, such as an IM client or something?
- wmblaettler 16y agoMine does the same (Chrome+WinXP). Makes it incredibly hard to sit through when it's yelling Fail at me every time the counter gets to 1:57 regardless of me not actually doing anything. I only think I could sit through about 30 seconds of it flashing Fail until I left (tempted to debug, but too busy with work). I also briefly wondered if that was the test -- to sit through the buggy countdown clock without trying to troubleshoot why it's broken, if that's the test, I failed.
- wmblaettler 16y agoFYI, if I open the page in Chrome with cursor outside of the screen it counts down to 0, if my mouse is within the screen, it says Fail at about 1:57 continuously.
- coderholic 16y agoI had a lot of fun writing this, and it's great to see it taking off. Waiting 2 minutes was impossible for me, I had to set the counter to 2 seconds while testing it! :)
- biot 16y agoIt would be fun to see a graph of how long people last. :)
- deno 16y agoYup, and especially how it correlates against Referrer. Though the author would probably need to add <START> button, to minimize the unintentional fails. Also failing could be adjusted for accidental mouse movements, perhaps by ignoring distances of just couple of pixels.
- othello 16y agoWell done, the waves are actually quite relaxing.
- edw519 16y ago1:58 FAIL Kinda like my sex life.
- aDemoUzer 16y agoCongrats on having one.
- Vivtek 16y agoFailed for unknown reasons three times in a row. Thinking it was noise on my mouse scrollwheel, I took the batteries out of it. I'm gratified to learn this was unintentional. This said, the site is really, really making me think about moving back to Puerto Rico.
- necolas 16y agoNice idea; made me realise how few "do nothing" breaks I take in a day...0. I'd probably like to use it throughout the day if the problems in Chrome were ironed out. Failed for me every time before I even did anything (Chrome, Vista). When I changed tab, and then came back without mousing into the viewport, the FAIL message didn't appear...but neither did the clock count down. Works in Firefox 3.6 though.
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- dgl 16y agoI was doing really well until my curiosity got the better of me and I viewed the source to see why there was no sound (no flash installed). Although it seems in Safari I can succeed by loading it in a background tab :).
- megamark16 16y agoPassed it on my first try. In fact, I didn't realize it was a pass/fail kind of thing until I came here, I just assumed it was a self test. I found that the time seemed to pass more slowly when I closed me eyes. I had my eyes closed for the first minute, and I opened them when I thought it should have been about two minutes, only to discover that I still had a minute left. Nice job, bookmarked for future relaxation.
- martinkallstrom 16y agoSucceeds easily on ipad. No sound though..
- coderholic 16y agoThat's cheating! :)
- binarymax 16y agoThanks for this. Will use it every day.
- ethanhuynh 16y agohaving gone through this, it actually makes me feel like the longest 2 minutes of my life
- curiousepic 16y agoThis would be a lot more difficult if it weren't for the sound and image - it occupied parts of my mind that would go crazy without any stimulation for that long.
- hugh3 16y agoI turned the sound off, and noticed that I have several species of birds singing in the background here. Also the clock on my wall is really loud.
- nicksergeant 16y agoNot billable. Can't be on the page.
- msluyter 16y agoI was just thinking about the fact that much of my work requires me to pause for a short time -- while building my project, or running a query, or launching the huge honkin' java webapp and waiting for 10 billion classes to initialize -- but the pause is too short to make a useful context switch, and too long to simply wait through without getting bored. So typically, I often check e-mail, HN, or whatever, but then end up getting sidetracked. Being able to simply wait through these would be great. Unfortunately, developing this sort of mental discipline, along with exercising, making my bed, and eating out less often, falls on my "Things That Are Good For Me That I'll Probably Never Do" list.
- iamwil 16y agoActually, that's one of my biggest problems when it comes to productivity. The REPL (read-eval-print loop) takes too long because the unit tests take too long to run, or the environment takes too long to load. Recently, I took a day to tackle this problem for myself, and I've found that I'm just much more productive when I'm stuck in a quicker REPL loop, rather than when I need to wait and stare out the window--and then I get distracted.
- mebassett 16y agoyeah, I have that problem too. Those short pauses kill productivity. I think mediation may help. I've taken to sitting for 20min a day doing nothing. 2 minutes isn't that bad at all. I don't think it [mediation] requires much mental discipline to start; I still can't be bothered to exercise, make my bed, et cetera.
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- Splines 16y agoTimer also doesn't restart counting down if my mouse isn't on the page. (In other words, it will only start counting down if my mouse cursor is on top of the page - focus doesn't seem to matter). It's also failing immediately, probably because I have a ton of windows already open and two IM clients. FWIW, I'm running Chrome on Win7.
- stevenj 16y agoOr just take a walk outside.
- NathanKP 16y agoOut of determination I succeeded, even though by my calculations doing nothing for two minutes cost me $1.60 that I could have made writing code. Of course, I stopped the clock anyway when I clicked on the HN popup notification. Edit: Just looked at the code. The programmer missed a great chance to gather some data. I would have tracked the fail events using Google Analytics so I could see how many fails on average per user from different traffic sources: _gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'Fail', 'Mouse Move', 'dummy', 'dummy']);
- jdavid 16y agoYou could actually make the 'Fail' event hierarchical 'Fail.1', 'Fail.2', 'Success.3' to track how many fails were required before success
- coderholic 16y agoGreat idea, thanks. I'll add it. At the moment we're looking at the average time on site stats.
- NathanKP 16y agoGreat! One more thought I had: also track whether the failure was due to the mouse or keyboard. When you have gathered a decent number of results I will be very interested to see a blog post with some nice graphs.
- coderholic 16y agoNow tracking fails (with the event type), and successes. If the data looks interesting I'll definitely write it up!
- robryan 16y agoI'd discard results under say a second or 2, took me a couple of goes to see that you can't move the mouse at all once the page loads.
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- thingie 16y agoWhat makes it hard is just that annoying countdown. Nothing else. (And I had no waves, because I don't have Flash plugin enabled, meh.)
- abstractbill 16y agoI passed, but it was very hard because I got no waves and so was immediately tempted to view source and find out why not, and also because I kept looking at the horizon of the photo and wondering if it was just me or if it was very slightly tilted down to the right. For extra difficulty, you should throw in more and more things like the above to make ocd people squirm ;)
- Aemon 16y agopretty cool idea, though I don't think I could have passed just listening to the waves, without my music collection I don't think I'd be able to muster the patience for this, well. maybe.
- zdw 16y agoI like the seagull at 0:38
- karanbhangui 16y agoPerhaps a minor UI tweak, instead of counting down (which creates a slight sense of panic), you should count up? It'll help with the calm.
- tewy 16y agointeresting idea
- GrooveStomp 16y agoNice. I have my little fan blowing, so this greatly reminded me of sitting down at Kits beach, playing guitar in the evening.
- highzeth 16y agoNot counting down using Opera (Linux, 11.00 build 1156), that said, very nice timeout this(Using Chromium).
- aw3c2 16y agoworks fine in 11.01 1164.
- drhodes 16y ago.. yeah right and let you use my optimized javascript engine as a node in your distributed machine. Nice try!
- ajaimk 16y agoI decided to let the ocean sounds run in the back ground cause I really couldn't get myself to spend 2 minutes idle. 2 minutes later, I found it to be annoying the heck out of me.
- didip 16y ago0:11 FAIL I was so close. Trying it for the second time: * Open in new tab. * Change to that tab using keyboard, let it activate, be careful not moving your mouse inside the window. * Change to another tab/window/app, continue work as usual. * Success!
- michaelty 16y agoI could only do this after writing some enterprise Java code.
- pavel_lishin 16y ago1. The birds aren't moving. This is driving me insane. 2. I stopped because I became paranoid that with 0:15 seconds, the website was going to rick-roll me.
- peterwwillis 16y agoWe're no strangers to love...
- jackolas 16y agoYou know the rules and so do I...
- ghotli 16y agoNot here please.
- peterwwillis 16y agoA full commitment's what i'm thinking of...
- praptak 16y agoEven worse than rickrolling: it's facebook whoring (Like it! 2755 likes! Register to see what your friends like! Spread the calm! [twitter logo] [facebook logo]) which I find quite jarring.
- carols10cents 16y agoI was getting paranoid that it was going to be one of those sites that flashes a scary face and screams at you.
- rikthevik 16y agoOnce bitten, twice shy.
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- shock-value 16y agoFor added difficulty, try thinking nothing for two minutes. For experienced meditators, this shouldn't be hard, but for the rest of us it's a real challenge.
- tewy 16y agothx for the feedback guys, i'm particularly liking the tracking of fails in GA (cc coderholic!)
- mcs 16y agoI'll sit on this page.. while I write code in 3 different SSH terms, run wireshark, listen to DI.fm, use firebug, while talking to a person in a neighboring cube.
- regnum 16y agoAt the end there's a link to an Amazon page with related book titles, but unfortunately the page is down. Lots of missed affiliate revenue.
- dpcan 16y agoI'm going to need a reason "why" I should do this.
- paraschopra 16y agoMy Tweetdeck notifications kept popping up. I looked at them, wanted to Retweet but god knows how badly I wanted to win this game. Ironically, came before 20 seconds elapsed to post this comment :)
- mcburton 16y agoThat was fun. My screen dimmed after 30sec and shut off right at the 2min mark. I even resisted clicking the FlashBlock icon so I had no sound. Would this work with the <audio> tag?
- drivebyacct2 16y agoI closed the tab with 4 seconds. I got stuff to read, homework to do and code to write. Plus I'd like a nap this afternoon. Roll my two minutes into nap time, then we can discuss it.
- jschuur 16y agoSounds like you're exactly the type of person this was written for then.
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- marcamillion 16y agoMust say....was harder than I thought it would be. Sounds simple at first...then all of a sudden, 2 mins feel like an eternity.
- arnemart 16y agoI opened the page in a tab in the background, and when I got around to viewing it I had already won. That was easy.
- Murkin 16y agoWow.. that was hard. Well done !
- jschuur 16y agoWouldn't it be fun if this actually extended the seconds progressively towards the end?
- kgermino 16y agoIt already feels like it does.
- thisisblurry 16y agoCrap, I immediately opened Chromium's Developer Tools to view the source. Stupid web developer habits.
- dholowiski 16y agoI made it the full two minutes, it was easy. I just loaded the page, listened to a podcast on my iPhone and read a couple HN articles on my iPad while I was waiting.
- komlenic 16y agoI passed, but had to resist the temptation to nab the background image, straighten the horizon, and email it off to the dev.
- jcromartie 16y agoI clicked this link, and then I got a phone call.
- EGreg 16y agoI was half expecting this website to rick-roll me. But I can see how it would be viral. Of course, that would mean that a total of 2933894 hours every day will be spent as this website commands. And THEN you can unleash a rickroll!
- ryanwaggoner 16y agoThis was easy, because right after it started I remembered that I needed to go check my pot roast in the slow cooker. I'm all for adding more peace and quiet reflection to my life, but watching a javascript timer count down for two minutes on a website with a picture of the ocean doesn't count.
- ollerac 16y agoWhy not? I mean, why does it matter that it's a javascript timer? And that it's a website? Or what the picture is? Why should any of these things affect how seriously you take what it's trying to do?
- ryanwaggoner 16y agoWhat is it trying to do? I sit in front of my computer to get shit done. When I want to take a break and do nothing, I hang out with friends, take the dog for a walk, go to the park with my wife. I don't sit motionless at my computer and listen to waves. But that's just me.
- Tycho 16y agoI of course left the page before long, but if you put an advert on there to appear after the countdown, I guarantee it will get much higher click through than normal. Why? Because when people have invested time in something, they're strangely more positive about things and more willing to go along with the program (perhaps to get the payoff that's been missing so far, but even if there's none they will rationalise that it was still a good use of time). Might help if you make the advert slightly more interesting/mysterious than usual though.
- gojomo 16y agoI simply can't take the risk that the next 2 minutes is when I'll find my cofounders, build my prototype, and raise an oversubscribed angel round.
- vidar 16y agohttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mindfulness_(psychology) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mindfulness_(psychology)
- klbarry 16y agoI was fine until a (1) popped up in my email tab...
- JeanPierre 16y agoAfter a long day of studying and answering e-mails, coming home to this was amazing. I knew that I needed to take a break: That's why I logged on my computer and checked Hacker News. But relaxing like this was much more soothing than reading about programming languages or hacker-essays. I've heard a lot of times that taking a break for 10-15 minutes where you just close your eyes and relax is good for you, but I've never really tried it. Maybe I will do this more often after this. Also, would it be possible to make one for 10 or 15 minutes as well? Sometimes, 2 minutes isn't enough.
- NyxWulf 16y agoThis used to be impossible for me too. Even on adderall this would have been fairly challenging at times. Recently however my stress level was getting so bad that I started looking for ways to remain calm, even under extreme pressure. Long story short, I came across a book on Amazon called "Zen Meditation and Wisdom for a Better Life: A Gift to Busy People, Regardless of Religion". I'm a skeptic when it comes to "Religion" type stuff, but meditation is one of those practices that has survived so long that I wondered if there was something practical to it. The main point in that book is that meditation has nothing to do with religion, it's a personal productivity technique. It's fundamentally about training your mind to focus on one thing for a period of time. It seemed interesting and I didn't have to buy anything other than the book I'd already purchased to try it. So I started doing it ten minutes a day, and let me tell you, the results have been impressive for me. It's nothing more mystical than the ability to really intensely focus on something, one thing, without letting your mind wander. If you think that's easy - give it a try, for just ten minutes. It's surprising just how hard it is to contain your mind for that long. Give it a try, before long, sitting still for two minutes is so easy you won't believe it. As a side benefit you may learn how to relax at an unbelievable rate during those two minutes.
- TheAmazingIdiot 16y agoAlong with the viewpoint of being skeptic about religious stuff, I can most certainly understand. But of all these religions that exist, there must be some sort of truth between them all, considering the many congruencies. One document I have been treading through is this one: http://hermetic.com/crowley/book-4/aba1.html http://hermetic.com/crowley/book-4/aba1.html The premise that is argued is a very strong one, being "Is there any truth at all in the claims of various religions?" It is as academic as one can be, with appropriate cites and books to read and refer to. However, it is a "Howto" manual that does require quite a bit of work. As an aside, I bet you (and others) have had the problem of itching and scratching and burning and freezing and biting and everything else that could go wrong when you try to meditate. I had it when I first started to practise, and the general feelings of discomfort only seem to multiply. Asana is the Hindu technique used in order to quiet the mind and body. It's in the same document.
- radu_floricica 16y agoDifficulty-wise, doesn't even compare to 30 minutes of sitting zazen. It worked its magic, I felt better when it was over. Goes in the bookmarks. Wonder how I could make it activate automatically once or twice a day...
- julian37 16y agoI find relaxation with a countdown decidedly un-zen. It's a well-meant attempt of bringing some calamity into our lives, though, thanks for that!
- gnubardt 16y agoWorkrave[1] and antirsi[2] have helped me take breaks like this regularly. Beyond the wrist relief it's nice to take a short break and refresh my mind before continuing work. [1]http://www.workrave.org/ http://www.workrave.org/ [2]http://tech.inhelsinki.nl/antirsi/ http://tech.inhelsinki.nl/antirsi/
- pmsaue0 16y agoI use these: http://www.scirocco.ca/takeabreak.html http://www.scirocco.ca/takeabreak.html and http://www.dejal.com/timeout/ http://www.dejal.com/timeout/ There is a work method based on this as well: http://www.pomodorotechnique.com/ http://www.pomodorotechnique.com/
- pmsaue0 16y agoit's also nice to not work
- feral 16y agoI passed. Because I clicked open a lot of stories from the main HN page in background tabs, and by the time I got to that one, it had told me I had passed.
- kaiwetzel 16y agoI didn't get to that tab yet, have been wondering where that nice background sound was coming from for an hour or so :) Just opened a second tab and passed, though.
- kno 16y agoI did it!!!
- rokhayakebe 16y agoYou should switch it, and see how long it takes to fail?
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- markbnine 16y agoreminds me of zenmoo.. . your typing detracts from your enlightenment
- nostromo 16y agoDid anyone else catch Sam Harris' response to Edge's 2011 question, "What scientific concept would improve everybody's cognitive toolkit?"? I found it quite interesting. http://www.edge.org/q2011/q11_12.html#harriss http://www.edge.org/q2011/q11_12.html#harriss "I invite you to pay attention to anything — the sight of this text, the sensation of breathing, the feeling of your body resting against your chair — for a mere sixty seconds without getting distracted by discursive thought. It sounds simple enough: Just pay attention. The truth, however, is that you will find the task impossible. If the lives of your children depended on it, you could not focus on anything — even the feeling of a knife at your throat — for more than a few seconds, before your awareness would be submerged again by the flow of thought. This forced plunge into unreality is a problem. In fact, it is the problem from which every other problem in human life appears to be made."
- kirse 16y agoI haven't logged in to comment for 37 days and this little essay is such utter garbage. The fact that it takes him just 7 paragraphs to completely dismiss all potential religious truth as "clearly false" should set off anyone's dogma-alert flag. Being focused in the present is awesome, but the fact that we have the ability to pay attention on things other than reality is not a problem, but in fact essential to the health of the mind (our "spirit" if you will). Imagine if all your circumstances sucked and all your mind could focus on was reality... Secondly, this essay sounds like he's much more inner-focused, as I know that I rarely have these "flow of thought" and self-conscious moments that he calls being "submerged again by the flow of thought"... If you asked me at any moment what I was thinking, I would tell you "nothing"... Obviously I'm thinking something behind the scenes, but my focus is just not on my thoughts when I'm doing. So my own personal thought-life does not confirm this silliness. Then again, I'm very extroverted and rarely focused on my own thoughts -- maybe it's my "clearly false" Christian religion, or the fact that I've been a runner for 20+ years which is essentially meditating on present experience (pain), but I just have a strong natural tendency to focus on the present experience rather than my own thoughts. Even if you're looking at this under the domain of science, I would still argue that the ability of humans to cope with present circumstances is directly correlated to their capability to focus upon that which is not the present. (i.e. thinking joyful thoughts, etc.). That little essay is pitiful, talk to "robg" here on YC if you want to hear from a Neuroscientist who has a better respect for this domain of mind and spirit. The way this guy just starts with a bunch of assumptions and blasts away at all potential truth in less than 1,000 words gives me no respect for his method of thinking.
- jaxn 16y agoI wish it had video interaction. Record a video of me "doing nothing" for 2 minutes, and let people watch them at watchpeopledonothingfor2minutes.com I wonder how many people cheat.
- jhamburger 16y agoThat is such a long time.
- honeycrisp 16y agoI think it would have been easier if the website had a better quality recording of waves. It was all I could focus on.
- bvi 16y agoWhat I'd suggest would be to remove the timer (or make it very difficult to read). Most people don't realize just how long 2 minutes can be, so it would be a reality check.
- d3x 16y agoThis would be much harder to do if you did not have the timer on the screen.
- tunaslut 16y agoI was just thinking it would be better if the timer wasn't there :)
- GDH 16y agoTo be honest, after failing the first time I knew I had to pass, so I CTR + Tab'd to this backup HN tab and wrote this comment as the soothing ocean noises on the other tab calmed me.
- nicklovescode 16y agoAfter 6 seconds I couldn't help but check the source to see if it was playing sound using <video> or Flash.....
- Confusion 16y agoHumans have evolved to pay close attention to, and be keenly aware of, their environment. Of course you can't just sit still for two minutes: there may be a snake crawling by. Pay attention or suffer the consequences. As the Zen enthusiasts already implicitly acknowledged, the ability to concentrate on a single thing may well be valuable, but concentrating on a single thing, especially on a single thing of your own choosing at the time of your choosing, is vastly different from doing nothing, on a moment chosen by someone else, while actually concentrating on something you don't consider interesting.
- Semiapies 16y agoOdd; keeps failing despite no input.
- d_mcgraw 16y agoAnyone else notice that it kinda looks like you are staring over the ocean at a nuclear blast? Love the site though. It really is relaxing and a neat simple idea. Hard to sit through after a 16oz red bull, but i did it!
- tastybites 16y agoThe sun is a nuclear blast.
- niels 16y agoGreat site, you should make it fail on window resize events too... at least that is one more thing you can detect.
- melvinram 16y agoIt wasn't impossible but it was indeed difficult.
- roc 16y agoI'm not sure if I succeeded or not. I closed my eyes and focused intently on the sound of the waves. I imagined myself on a beach, waves rolling in and out. I wondered what kind of material the beach was constructed from. Sand and a few larger rocks, it sounded like. There's a distinctive wash, but it seems just as clear there's a break in the rhythm of the crashing wave. I then started to wonder just what shapes of wave was giving rise to the really bad compression artifacting in the wave sound on that page. Some of the sounds are remarkably clear for all the artifacts in other portions. Unfortunately, I didn't really get anywhere with that lien of thought before my CFO interrupted me. At which point I saw the site had determined that I 'succeeded'. I'm not entirely convinced I failed though. Sure, I thought about sand, rocks and compression -- but I was concentrating on the sounds of the waves that whole time. What meaning could there be in "do nothing but listen to this" if truly listening to the sounds and internalizing them and analyzing them was ruled out as being "something"? If staring like a zombie with your mind empty was the goal, surely there wouldn't be an audio track and full-window image on that page.
- prawn 16y agoI lasted two seconds. Opened the page while eating breakfast. It said do nothing for two minutes. I instantly thought "Great, I can eat breakfast while I wait" and picked up the bowl at the 1:58 mark.
- rbreve 16y agoI was paranoid that a photo of a zombie with a loud scream would appear suddently
- jrockway 16y agoDepends on the context. When I am sitting in front of a computer with lots of stuff to read or do, I'm not going to stare at waves for two minutes. If I'm on the bus, though, then I can easily do it.
- baddox 16y agoIn my current situation (alone with no one to physically force me), it's impossible for me to "relax" for 2 minutes, because I am actively willing myself to not do so.
- Dramatize 16y agoThat was easy, I just used my other computer for 2 minutes.
- legalenvelope 16y agoI like this one better: http://jesusswimming.com http://jesusswimming.com He has been swimming
- krobertson 16y agoWhenever I see these kind of things I always expect it to be some prank. Watch this nice sunset, listen to the calming sounds, and then just as it gets to calm down, have something jump out to scare the crap out of you.
- enki 16y agoyou can save two minutes by typing this: javascript:foo=setTimeout; setTimeout = function(x,y){ foo(x,2); }
- fakespastic 16y agoMy thoughts, for 2 minutes: - Alright, calm down - What if my monitor goes into power saving mode? - It's only 2 minutes, I'm sure power save is set for longer than 2 minutes. - I wonder what the default setting for power saving is in Windows 7. - Concentrate! - (looking at the horizon on the right below the clouds) I wonder what it would be like to be a world traveler by way of boat. - Hey, what are those birds doing there? - Try to remember your thoughts to post on HN after the 2 minutes is up. - Look at that swell. I wonder how that works, exactly. - (distracting noise in background) Feeling tense again! - I think the wife and kid are watching me take this seriously, and have probably lost a sliver of respect for me. - (mind drifts into nothing for a bit) - Well, that was calming. I like looking at the horizon. - I wonder what I get for beating this.
- dedward 16y agoStudies show simple meditation (focus on nothing, or one thing - doesn't really matter - just train your mind on a single, simple thing) for something like just a minute or two a day in the morning can have an almost immediate and lasting (if you keep it up) effect on your ability to concentrate. Concentration is a skill that requires practice, like anything else.
- ctdonath 16y agoWell that was easy - since I happened along this thread while sitting in my daughter's darkened room, surfing iPad just to pass time, making sure she doesn't get out of bed for the 6th time.
- justinhj 16y agoI probably could pass this easily, because I used to frequent a Buddhist group, and could easily meditate for 50 minutes or more. Unfortunately I'm also a parent, and kiddo came over and read the screen, and moved the mouse to amuse us both. Fail.
- tmachinecharmer 16y agoThat clock runs slower than the usual one. Damn its hard!
- randomizer 16y agoWas just enough for my bathroom break.
- silentbicycle 16y agoTicking the clock every single f'ing second is a bit much. I sat it out, but "2 minutes...1...0" would be better than an update every second along the way (or fifteen-second intervals). When I sit zazen, I just set a timer for 20 minutes and stick it out of view. The timer itself is a distraction.
- silentbicycle 16y agoI passed, because I stopped doing shit. workrave/xwrits are better, if it actually matters.
- ramki 16y agoI know its tough for me, so i opened it and left for coffee...
- sbierwagen 16y agoDoesn't work in Chrome 10.0.642.0: timer never starts counting down. Also, this is the second site I've seen this week that adds background sound via an invisible youtube embed.
- s00pcan 16y agoI tried checking the source but it made me fail. So I picked up my ps3 controller and started playing an emulator.
- JamesDB 16y agoIf you have two monitors just have Tweetdeck open on the other! Easy.
- Shihan 16y agoI starred at the page for like 5 minutes and was wondering why it wouldn't start to count down - not realizing that I was always moving the mouse around a bit. Damn you base-nervousness.
- nrbafna 16y agoI got through it easily. I closed my eyes, counted the seconds elapsed in my head and opened my eyes every 10-15 seconds to see how close I ended up.
- mfukar 16y agoWhy would I waste two minutes of my short-enough-as-it-is life?
- sidble 16y agoin two secs I sent it off (enhhhh, you have failed this test!) to my committed lover (sometimes can be taken as meaning the manicomio committed, but we'll leave it at that..The King of Hearts was a favourite movie after all...) THEN i took the 2 minutes. May he take his... and left the sounds on my computer all day in the background. The sea is far behind me, the c however is all before me..
- sidble 16y agoThis site has me laughing out loud often. O what fools we mortals be! and it also takes one to know one.... eh.