Can Playing CS, make you better at........

[oni_666]

Doing other things in "Real Life".
And I'm not talking about shooting real guns at real people, cos that would be stupid.
What I mean, is that can playing games that require a certain degree of "hand to eye coordination" make you better at things in your normal day to day life.
Personally I've noticed since I have been driving cars and motorbikes, that my reaction times in Instances of danger have dropped considerably.
A couple of times, I've been faced with animals or people running into the path of my car (sounds a bit like Carmageddon, does'nt it?) And without even thinking about it, I have braked and swerved to avoid them.
An Instinctive reaction, That one might experience when rounding a corner in CS and being faced with an enemy, That moment where time stops still, and the quickest finger on a mouse key, decides who lives or who die's (taking into consideration ping times and all that).
My Reaction times when driving, Have definately dropped, And I can see no other reason but to attribute this to years of online First person shooter games, And not day to day driving in my car.
What do you think?
And what experiences have you had?

 

[KoreBolteR]

its makes me better at being unsociable

lol nah, i always had quick reflexes, i suppose the quickest reflexes of mine were because of games, hmm dno..

as long as i go out on the weekends with m8s im fine

 

[firemachine69]

It's helped me made sweet love to my woman, helped me grow muscles, helped my self-confidence...



No, not that I have seen. What I HAVE seen, however, is when my body started to fail me, my weakening sight and slower reflexes were MUCH more apparent in Goldneye (for N64). God I miss the days were I could run around in the Facility and pop off head-shots 95% of the time.

 

[Dekstar]

Yeah they are doing experiments with older people. If they play FPS' about 1 to 2 hours a week, their reflexes, hand eye coordination, and thought speed increase. It's really rather interesting.

 

[oni_666]

Dekstar...Now I know the years of online play may make me blind, but at least i'll still be able to hit the toilet bowl when I pee and not dribble on the floor!

 

[Rotary]

Reactions and hand eye cordination.

 

[Admin_Winnuting]

I've been faced with animals or people running into the path of my car (sounds a bit like Carmageddon, does'nt it?) And without even thinking about it, I have braked and swerved to avoid them.
An Instinctive reaction, That one might experience when rounding a corner in CS and being faced with an enemy

You run around a corner, see the enermy, slow down, and run around him? Lol sorry, just thinking about it was pretty funny.

 

[fizzlephox]

You run around a corner, see the enermy, slow down, and run around him? Lol sorry, just thinking about it was pretty funny.

lmao! That is funny to think about. But really I'm sure that it does help your hand eye coordination. It's primary value is for entertainment though. But you know they use games to treat phobias, train soldiers, and all sorts of other fields are looking into it. They also have Machinima, Red Vs. Blue (on the Halo engine) and then they have those guys making The Strangerhood using The Sims 2.

Our choice medium is the future of entertainment. The future of reality our very existence!!! Just kidding. About the second part.

 

[Dekstar]

Dekstar...Now I know the years of online play may make me blind, but at least i'll still be able to hit the toilet bowl when I pee and not dribble on the floor!

Well I have been playing computer games since I was.. 10. I'm 16 now, and I still have perfect 20-20 vision. And I mean pretty much total gaming, none of that crappy "Light gaming" that people rave on about.

And I don't dribble on the floor either

 

[HadouKen24]

Personally I've noticed since I have been driving cars and motorbikes, that my reaction times in Instances of danger have dropped considerably.
A couple of times, I've been faced with animals or people running into the path of my car (sounds a bit like Carmageddon, does'nt it?) And without even thinking about it, I have braked and swerved to avoid them.

There have been three times since I got my driver's license a year ago, (Two years late, at age 18.) that would have owned most new drivers. All three times, there was a fraction of a second in which I had to react precisely and calmly. And I did.

Yes, I attribute it to gaming.

I've noticed that there's a fairly sizable difference in driving skill between my friends who play lots of video games and my friends who don't.

 

[Element Alpha]

I learned everything I know about computers and networks because I play games.

I speak, read and write decent English because I played games since I was 10 (French/Dutch only otherwise)

I made my first websites because I played games.

On the other hand, I did fail 4th year of highschool(wich is fairly easy to do here in Belgium) because I preferred playing games instead of doing my homework. There were other reasons as well, but playing games too often surely didn't help.

 

[The Silhouette]

Its proven video games can highten hand/eye cordination and lower reflex times.

 

[Drizzt]

My reflexs Pwn because of CS.

Its really scary sometimes actually. Sometimes when i unpack our dishwasher, i open a cupboard and a glass will fall out. With out even thinking i put out my hand and if falls into it perfectly. I don't even thing about it.

Lol, my mom is just staring at me, "how did you do that"!? I just shrug and tell her that playing all those "evil" video games are paying off.


Plus if it were not for video games, and having bad tech support in the past, and having to learn a lot about computer just to get the damn things to work i would not be going to school to get my bachlors of computing science.

 

[oni_666]

There have been three times since I got my driver's license a year ago, (Two years late, at age 18.) that would have owned most new drivers. All three times, there was a fraction of a second in which I had to react precisely and calmly. And I did.

Yes, I attribute it to gaming.

I've noticed that there's a fairly sizable difference in driving skill between my friends who play lots of video games and my friends who don't.

Thx! for that, I knew I could'nt be the only one around whose driving skills are better because I play games.

I'll tell you of 2 times in the last 7 years of driving where Instant instinctive reactions has saved mine and my wife's life (say that fast, when your pi$$ed).

About 4 years ago, I had a job that required me to travel about 50 miles from home, I had to be at this certain place at 4am every morning, As I live in Wales (UK) there are quite a few sheep about and they generally wander into the road, probably cos the grass is always greener on the other side, So this one morning, 5 of us in my MK Vw Polo, Everyone else sleeping, and I'm bombing along, doing my normal 85mph, know the roads like the back of my hand, when suddenly I come around this corner over and into a dip in the road, And see 2 eyes looking at me from the middle of the road, I'm gonna hit 'em in about half a second, So my reactions take over and quick swerve to the right and back to the left side and I'm on my way again.
My wife in the passenger seat stirs awake, says "what was that?
I say, "Only a frigging sheep lying down in the middle of the bloody road".
And so we carry on, on our way. Damn sheep!

Next time, my reactions, saved me and my family.
Just been shopping and I'm driving home along the twisty welsh roads, And I'm taking it easy, 50mph, Cos my daughters chatting to me, and I'm half paying attention to her and half to the road.
When the road I'm going along, which has high sided walls with hedges on top, Comes to a bit of a blind bend, which is Notorious locally for Idiots overtaking on it.
I see the top half of a lorry as I look over the hedge, the lorry is just coming into the blind bend, I'm just turning the corner into the bend, And I spot some f*ckwit, Overtaking the lorry, On the corner, He's on my side, Maybe doing 70-80mph, I'm 30 yards from him and closing fast, He's parallel with the lorry,
It all happens in tenths of a second,
The lorry accelerates, The guy in the approaching car, Brakes and tries to get back on his side of the road,
I brake and swerve to the left, Thinking f*ck it, I'd rather scrape the left hand side of the car, than hit this guy head on, at a combined 120+ mph.
Suddenly, we're past! The lorry and car gone, But I'd looked in my mirror as he shot past, and the reversed letters and digits of his registration plate are burned onto an image in my mind.

I stop in a layby, by the side of the road, I'm crying, and so is my wife, My daughter, is Crying and screaming.
We're alive, and all thx to me being a gamer, If that Idiot had faced anyone else, An elderly driver maybe, and there are lots driving around my local area, I'm certain that their reactions would have been no where near as "honed" as mine.

I reported the guy to the police, the same day. I saw his car and number plate, And my wife would recognise him since she says she'll never forget the look of horror on his face, when we came round that corner.
The police never found him or the car, But I still keep an eye out for him, Just in case.

 

[Drizzt]

it's just amazes me how many bad drivers there are in the world.

The funny part, you have these old people who think that it is just the people who drive fast are the dangerous ones. WRONG. I think that it is just as dangerous for and old person to be going 15 under the limit and not have a friggen clue what the hell is going on.

It only takes one idiot to be going 15 under the limit during rush hour, and thinking that they being safe. When in reality, other people are trying to get out of that lane and might hit someone.

 

[Glo]

oni_666: were you two standing still when you had to look for his registration plate or were you driving? because i cant really see how could anyone see, let alone remember a registration plate through a mirror, while driving.

 

[Exclamatio]

games are great for things like reflexes, hand eye co-ordination

 

[TheViperOne]

I work at Wal-Mart (yes, evil I know..I'm only 16 and need a part-time job though) and I work in the Toy department.

As you probably already know, kids run around all day and make the place a mess. Things are constantly falling off shelves and hitting customers in the head. One time, I saw something falling off a shelf and about to hit a person next to me and suddenly it dropped. I reached over so quickly and grabbed it that the other person didn't even know what hit them..they just said, 'Wow, that was fast.'

I don't know if I attribute this to wreaking 10 years or more of FPS havok online or not but it certainly couldn't hurt.

On top of all this, when I try and tidy up the puzzle isle the puzzles constantly fall and I always catch them before they hit the ground...sometimes 3 or 4 fall at a time! Talk about hand-eye co-ordination.

 

[HadouKen24]

oni_666: were you two standing still when you had to look for his registration plate or were you driving? because i cant really see how could anyone see, let alone remember a registration plate through a mirror, while driving.

I can't speak for oni, but my dad could. He's got 15/20 vision. And his parents ran a printing shop, so he grew up learning to read mirrored writing just as easily as regular. It's scary how he can read that stuff so easily...

He sucks at computer games, though.

 

[Immortal]

My eyesight has steadily declined over the past year because of staring at my computer screen playing fps. Should really get glasses.

 

[Llyranor]

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/4685909/
CSS will make you a better surgeon.

 

[_Chaz_]

It might sound a bit wierd, but I'm a crack shot while clay pidgeon shooting, could well be related...

 

[oni_666]

I know its hard to believe that I could see the guys reg plate as he hurtled past, but I did, all I remember thinking afterwards was what numbers were on the plate since they were reversed.
I ended up writing down, what I'd seen with a marker pen on a piece of paper and holding it up to the mirror in my house.
Then the letters I'd seen all made sense.
I 'm actually short sighting and wear glasses, Hereditary, from my father, not to mention, starting to lose my hair aged 18.
But it was that, that screwed up my eyesight, not years of PC use.
Back to how I could possibly see the reg plate though, Between the ages of 8 and 21 yrs old, I was a keen Hunter using an Air rifle, And if a rabbit moved its whiskers half a mile a way, I would see it, I'm a very observant person and always have been, Seeing and deciphering the reg plate was Instinctive too.

 

[Glo]

i guess people are capable of strange things when theyre in danger.

 

[oni_666]

Yep! Its pretty amazing what the body can do with adrenaline coursing through your veins.
Let me just mention something about that,
30 years ago, when I was six years old, I was watching my father who was working underneath his Mk2 Ford escort mexico, he had the car propped up on Jacks, with one on each side of the car, I think he was doing something to the exhaust manifold or something like that, Anyway, he was lying on the ground underneath the front of the car, When one of the jacks failed, and the front of the car pinned him to the floor, He could'nt breathe to cry out since the force of the car pushing down had expelled all the air from his lungs,
All he remembers, before he passed out was me running over to the front of the car, And seeing me Physically grab the front of the car, and lift it up, Apparently my mum had heard me scream and ran outside to see what was happening and she saw me lift the car up enough to enable her to grab my dads arms and pull him out.
I don't remember any of this, And only know what happened cos my mum told me, She finds it pretty hard to believe herself, but it happened. just the way I've just written.
People can do and have done un-believable things when those people and the people they Love have been in grave danger.
Its a funny 'ol world!

 

[Drizzt]

ya, My brother in laws father did somehting like that also. He is a farmer and you know those augers that bring grain to the top of a silo. Well he was working on one and it fell somehow and pinned one of his arms down, and he was able to pick it up with his other arm. And they weigh 1000+ pounds.

 

[oni_666]

Thats pretty amazing!
There's certainly a lot that we don't know or understand about our own bodies, let alone our soul!

 

[redneck24]

Dekstar...Now I know the years of online play may make me blind, but at least i'll still be able to hit the toilet bowl when I pee and not dribble on the floor!

lmfao......