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There's no strong evidence that playing more games makes you improve quicker. That's pretty interesting. I guess some types of learning can't be rushed by grin
by ineedasername 5y ago
There's no strong evidence that playing more games makes you improve quicker.
That's pretty interesting. I guess some types of learning can't be rushed by grinding practice.
- makeitdouble 5y agoI guess this is true for any activity requiring thinking. There must be a floor, a minimum frequency or total number of time practiced, but no specific ceiling or linearity between the time/frequency of practice and the progress in the art. If we had two pictures, and asked to guess which photographer takes 80 pictures a day and which takes 200, it would be a tough question. I see the above point the same way, past a certain point the number of games shouldn’t make a difference.
- firasd 5y agoI think the fact that good chess players memorize sets of positions is related to this finding that playing more games is not necessarily the way to improve your skill. Because chess improvement isn't necessarily dependent on reflexive subconscious action but in more conscious pattern recognition ('last time my opponent brought a knight to this square I got destroyed...')
- bobthepanda 5y agoin fact, grinding practice may make you worse at some activities, if you start picking up bad habits.