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Click on a few dots and our program will guess your age
- david927 14y agoThat is amazing. It was spot on.
- IanDrake 14y agoIt said I'm 36. It guessed 30.
- kba 14y agoWhat?
- jivid 14y agoDespite being about 10 years off my actual age, I think this is pretty cool. I wonder if there's any other information they're taking apart from speed between clicks? Geo-location might help to narrow down the range of possible ages.
- prg318 14y agoI wonder if the duration of a "quick break" is taken into account for their calculations?
- __mtb__ 14y agoright on the number for me. 33.
- dmastylo 14y agoIt said I was 28, I'm 19.
- eclipxe 14y agoSpot on for me too. Wow.
- legalbeagle 14y agoNot accurate for me. I'm 51 and it guessed 32. I'd be interested in what the key factors are.
- uslic001 14y agoNot even close. Said I was 29 and I am 48.
- eterps 14y agoIt said 33, I am 40.
- th 14y agoIt told me I was 33 also and I'm 25. The survey at the end was fairly short. I wonder what factors they might be missing. I type most of the day in a terminal and rarely use my touchpad except for scrolling and occasional clicks on websites. I also don't play video games often. It seems like both of those facts could have affected my speed.
- netcraft 14y agosaid 33, im 30.
- jpollock 14y agoIt was off by a good decade for me.
- Yhippa 14y agoOff by a year. Not bad.
- vesbot 14y agoMost of the numbers are around 30~ I don't think there is anything accurate about it.
- rsl7 14y agosaid 31, I'm 41. yay?
- MattGrommes 14y agoI'm almost 35, it said 32. Close enough. I wonder if it just uses time to click or if there's something involving extraneous clicks or noticing the patterns. Interesting in any case.
- amalakar 14y agoGuessed 30, I am 28.
- victorhn 14y agoI am 29 and it said 29.
- tibbon 14y ago30/30 here
- alarge 14y agoNot very close. Said 32. I'm 47. From the other comments, seems like a pretty narrow range of guesses.
- tony_landis 14y agoIt got me within 4 years
- regularfry 14y agoNot far off, but not amazing - 29 vs 33.
- bitboxer 14y agoDoes that thing just throw random numbers between 28 and 33 ? Looks like that if I read the comments :D .
- charonn0 14y agoProbably has more to do with the age of your average HN reader.
- charonn0 14y agoIt said 29 and I don't turn 30 for a few more weeks.
- disbelief 14y agoI also got 29, but I'm 33. You click like a 33 year old! ;)
- TiagoPT 14y agoSaid 40, I'm 21, really off!
- mjt0229 14y agoI click like a younger model.
- bengyusf 14y agoNot even close - guessed 44 and I'm 25.
- jere 14y agoThank god I'm not the only person that it guessed older.
- fl0w 14y agoBang on for me.
- dangoldin 14y agoIs this just a clever way to collect survey data? Based on the guesses being in a pretty narrow range I suspect that's the real goal.
- tptacek 14y agoI'm 36, it says I'm 31. I feel like an atomic superman. Also my fingers hurt.
- asdf333 14y agothis has very deep and far reaching implications for pro-level starcraft players!!! :p
- ollysb 14y ago28 for 33
- jere 14y agoGuessed 31. I'm 26. Crap. I must have awful motor skills.
- dennisgorelik 14y agoGuessed 30 (I'm on regular mouse/desktop). I'm 38.
- Echo117 14y agoAge 29 the first with regular speed of clicks. Age 53 the second time taking lots of time between clicks and being more careful to click the center of the circle.
- edanm 14y agoMy guess - this experiment has nothing to do with the clicks, but rather is trying to measure something else. Something like the amount of time people take on breaks, plotted against the amount of time people spent reading the instructions. Or something like that.
- brixon 14y agoI'm sure they do, I took a very short break (1-2 seconds) early on, but realized I did better if I just stayed in the zone.
- ahoge 14y agoIt could, for example, be used to demonstrate that people are more willing to reveal some private information if you make them jump through a few hoops to gain this "privilege".
- qb45 14y agoInteresting idea, but if this was the case I'm sure they wouldn't bother writing javascript which ajaxes timestapms of your clicks to their server.
- ahoge 14y agoWhy not? Placebos also look like the real thing, don't they? Anyhow, in cases like this it's always nice to save all the data you can get. The correlation you'd like to demonstrate might not exist at all. However, if there are many parameters, you might be able to find something else.
- noahc 14y agoIf you notice the red balls aren't random. I could always predict what the next ball was. It's always the one straight across. Could be measuring how many people pick up on the pattern.
- wglb 14y ago
- mrgreenfur 14y agoGot it right on the money. Spooky.
- jdwissler 14y agoIt thinks I'm 42. I'm 21. Something must be wrong with me.
- brk 14y agoYou/are are almost directly inverted in terms of age/score.
- vtbassmatt 14y agoI'm 30, it guessed 10.
- maxerickson 14y agoI'm 33, also got 10.
- joe_bleau 14y agoI used a MS trackball (thumb operated) and it read me as 9 years younger than my actual age. I expected the trackball to be a significant handicap, but maybe it's not? It certainly felt like I was struggling to hit the targets, with plenty of overshoot.
- qb45 14y agoI also used MS TBO but in my case it guessed few years too much. I'd say it's interesting if there was a single person here who didn't get answer between 25 and 35. And TBO definitively is a handicap, try playing Quake with it if in doubt.
- hmottestad 14y agoIt's probably a privacy test to see if they can get personal information out of test takers online simply by making you feel it's relevant to the test.
- aroberge 14y ago31 ... I'm over 50. And I don't feel particularly dextrous.
- dlsym 14y agoreturn 30 if referer == 'https://news.ycombinator.com/ https://news.ycombinator.com/ Is it close?
- devopstom 14y agoIt said 31. I'm 27. Who knows.
- trueluk 14y ago>> Our best guess is that you are 10. Is it close? Nope, I'm 28.
- tibbon 14y agoKinda shocked that at the end it didn't give a debriefing like most study tests do.
- igreulich 14y agoI got 39, I am 35
- brixon 14y agoIt thought I was 2 years younger, so not bad. Gamers will probably get rated much younger than they really are.
- peterwwillis 14y agoSays i'm 37, but really i'm 906. That's weird.
- dennisgorelik 14y agoWhat country were you born in?
- qu4z-2 14y agoI'm gonna guess he put down Gallifrey.
- IbJacked 14y agoBroken for me. The question page at the end didn't have a submit button (just oddly quoted: Preparing results..."), and when I submitted by pressing <enter> in an input box I got a "connection reset" error from Firefox.
- danielweber 14y agoAnd just when I finally get it to load and to my test: The following error was encountered: Connection to 140.247.61.57 Failed The system returned: (60) Connection timed out
- sqqqrly 14y agoI got only the "preparing results"... I think I took the site down! Now none of my three browsers can connect.
- edwintorok 14y agoOff by only 1 year for me. BTW the site seems to be under high load, it timed out, and had to reload the results page quite a few times, but eventually I got the result.
- housel 14y agoI'm 46, and it said 46. Uncanny.
- DanBC 14y agoCalls me 52. I'm 43. Using (badly) a touchpad. I have terrible co-ordination.
- tremendo 14y agonot even close, but now I do feel like bragging, so thanks for that ;) Actually the next position of the dot was pretty predictable in most cases.
- Scryptonite 14y agoIt guessed that I was 33. Divide that in half and it would pretty spot on.
- atesti 14y agoIt looks like it even transmits mouse move events on the canvas via ajax to the server. Too bad we don't know the calculations over there. I used a Thinkpad tracking point which is extremely accurate and fast (Lenovo will hopefully not remove them from the next ThinkPad after the T431 :-( ), yet the page guessed I was 10.
- Fuzzwah 14y agoI'm 35. It gave me 55 on my 1st attempt using the trackpad on my brand new laptop which I'm still getting used to (I turned on momentum yesterday and am not used to it yet). I then plugged in a mouse and got 30. The sensitivity on the mouse wasn't what I was used to, I felt hampered. I'll try it again at home on the machine + mouse set up I use when playing starcraft 2 and hope that I get at least a few years younger.
- tpabla 14y agoSaid 29 for me, I'm 24.
- kba 14y agoSame with me. Said I was 28 the second time I tried where I feel like I "tried harder".
- wglb 14y agoWay off. Like, by half.
- Urgo 14y agoJust put up a video on my youtube channel asking my subscribers to try this out. Looks like it does predict the 29-31 range much more then others. Anyway check out the comments over there for results of a much different demographic then here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_K6bSVKao5I http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_K6bSVKao5I
- infoman 14y agoFirefox: I am 10 years old Chrome: I am 30 years old IE: crashed in the end