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by hexman 1576 days ago
10 shapes 12 sec/shape (2nd try, no brute-force, mobile)

16 shapes (3rd try)

18 shapes (4th try)

24 shapes (5th try, no brute-force)

P.S. I had 7 years of art school in addition to engineering

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I'm in the same ballpark: 21 2nd try, and 18 3rd try. I've sort of always known that I've had good spatial reasoning, and this is one way to confirm it. I tend to think about most problems spatially, even molding things like code and social relations into this medium, because it's my strongest skill. I also tend toward the hyperphantasia side of the spectrum. I'm curious if other highscorers also tend toward hyperphantasia.

If the site is recording telemetry on scores, but it would be fantastic to have a percentile rank at the end.

I'm shocked. I have the same mindset. For example, if I need to predict how technologies can potentially evolve, I visualize them in different planes based on the history of technologies, such as centralization/decentralization cycles, compute networks growing, and the shift to centralization. Also, I visualize how some technologists like Kubernetes go into decentralization (like this is some of primitive form of life, where Datacenters/Bigdata some sort of prebiotic soup for the first vertebrates (Edge Computing devices)). And decentralized solutions such as blockchain are superimposed on this infrastructure. In my head, it looks like a huge visual picture with different levels of abstraction. It constantly evolves

I see how human sins are the drivers of technology development

-> 7

(Notices this comment) "...Hmph!" (Tries harder, focuses)

-> 12

-> 10

:(

Nothing like neural training, eh? Hmph :)

Now I'm curious what you think of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30409693.

Wow, that's impressive. After figuring out the game I got 8 shapes which I thought was good!
13 shapes 9.23/shape (2nd try no brute force)

no qualifications, other than liking physical 3d puzzles

You're the shape rotator of shape rotators.

I only managed to break 10 after about a dozen tries..

Is this the singularity?
idk bad in wordceling