Working memory is a fascinating concept. I've played with techniques like the Memory palace and found them to be wildly effective. Attaching a meaning to any piece of information seems to make it much easier to remember.
From http://www.livescience.com/7444-chimps-numbers-humans.html:
> However, they discovered the three young chimps could remember many numerals with a glance, with virtually no change in performance even when the numbers were flashed for just 210 milliseconds
Would help out myself, but I'm on vacation and it's late here.
Very cool. Is there any theoretical basis to it? Some research? Does the ability to solve this test correlate with other qualities?
Google for "ayumu chimp" for a number of articles on the subject.
Um... no. Cool concept, but I find it hard to see how someone could find this hard though. I also don't see how this is a sign of "intelligence"
Just imagine the line the points draw, and when you have to split it into one directional patterns you can easily remember..
Ps. Can we get a version where it's just 9 circles?
I didn't find it difficult, but I still had to take a bit of time to look for a pattern and review the pattern a couple times in my mind before I started. Yet, it's clear for the chimp there is no 'thinking' about it going on. Trying to imagine what it would be like to experience it as a chimp.
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Anyways, hackers and demo writers: degrade gracefully. On first brush with your random website, I might not want to let you track me. (I don't know what you're using this for.) Show me value. Or at least tell me why you need this.
In my defense, I did read the guidelines before posting this and it explicitly said:
> HN users are comfortable with work that's at an early stage.
This is my first "Show HN." I'll put "graceful degradation" on my list for next time :)
Here is a trick. It is very easy to rememeber up to 6 spots, but over that becomes hard. Split the numbers into groups and remember the patterns for each one and where the transition to the next group happens.
8 spots is okay for me now, used to be next to impossible at first.
Thus, using a mouse costs you points. Better play it on a touch device.
Can you send a pull request or give me any pointers how to prevent it?
Also, is the time needed to remember the numbers measured or not?
You can take any time you need to remember the numbers, it does not matter. However, I'm planning to add more levels that only show the numbers briefly.
I think it would be better (and simpler) to just decrease the potential score according to the time the player takes to look at the numbers (time of first click minus time the level was first displayed).
Also, I played several games and ended with a different score each time; if time doesn't matter, what does the score come from?
I'd like to use a fixed-width layout like 2048 has but cannot get it to work. The code is in a feature branch, https://github.com/awendt/memory-chimp/tree/fixed-width. I'm having trouble that the viewport is scrolling horizontally and I don't know why.
I was hoping to get rid of the zooming bug using a fixed-width layout together with the meta tag "viewport". That new layout could also be a chance to suggest users to try it on touch devices.
I forget so much of what I hear day to day, and think I could be far more effective in most regards if I could remember (something from the news, what a certain client said about X, or name of the cool company I read about etc.).
I've read several books about memory techniques, and can use the techniques actively to remember a number or a list. That is cool, however I really want to improve my working memory without needing to actively try to remember everything.
I'll try to catch that and probably just attempt a redraw...
can anyone recommend an app which does this?
I used my phone camera to help on last step. :)
Waiting for more levels..
