Sheep dash

November 17, 2006 9:24 AM

Sheep dash How quick are your reactions? (FFF)
posted by Turtles all the way down (28 comments total)

0.1822, apparently.
posted by goodnewsfortheinsane at 9:31 AM on November 17, 2006

Can't seem to get past bobbing bobcat (0.204 avg time).
posted by spiderskull at 9:31 AM on November 17, 2006

'nother bobbing bobcat here.
posted by mr_crash_davis at 9:33 AM on November 17, 2006

yea bobbing bobcat. poop!
posted by Mister_A at 9:33 AM on November 17, 2006

I (barely) got the rocketing rabbit at .199. Best single shot has been .120.
posted by Ufez Jones at 9:37 AM on November 17, 2006

bobbing bobcat x4
posted by killy willy at 9:37 AM on November 17, 2006

goodnewsfortheinsane: you beat me! (.188)

I find the thing that trips you up is when a sheep is overdue to run and then one makes a head movement, causing you to click the mouse. You can avoid that by staring fixedly at the second stripe in the grass and only clicking when a sheep enters it.
posted by Turtles all the way down at 9:39 AM on November 17, 2006

This reminds me of this thing at the Franklin Institute (in Philly)where you're in a fake dragster, and you play for best reaction time. I'm good at that, because it's not really reaction time, it's anticipation/timing. I am a rocketing rabbit on that :)
posted by Mister_A at 9:55 AM on November 17, 2006

Oh god no more.
.1742.
Now I MUST sleep.
posted by dreamsign at 10:03 AM on November 17, 2006

A 0.1628 rocketing rabbit. Gimme a liter or two of coffee and I think I can go for the cheetah.
posted by nkyad at 10:07 AM on November 17, 2006

Rocketing rabbit. Now, ask me how fast I do the work I'm supposed to be doing, right now.
posted by katillathehun at 10:11 AM on November 17, 2006

Rocketing rabbit. I wonder if I'd do better or worse if I am not hungover.
posted by rmless at 10:13 AM on November 17, 2006

I made rocketing rabbit several times but I can't get to turbo-charged cheetah; so far: fastest dart = .069; best average time = .1812.
posted by taosbat at 10:13 AM on November 17, 2006

Looks like a lot of you kids are beating me on average time, but I guarantee I won't be beat on fastest dart: 0.000. Yes, when you play at my level you have to put yourself inside the mind of the sheep and just know when he's going to feel the urge to dash.
posted by Turtles all the way down at 10:17 AM on November 17, 2006

I got a couple of 0.000 darts but didn't count them because, for me, the only difference between a 0.000 dart and a 3 second penalty was pure luck when my clicker finger twitched.
posted by taosbat at 10:21 AM on November 17, 2006

Trust The Force, taosbat, trust The Force.
posted by Turtles all the way down at 10:35 AM on November 17, 2006

My times got significantly better after I realized that you didn't have to click on the sheep themselves, you only needed to click the dart button on the bottom.
posted by hawkeye at 10:53 AM on November 17, 2006

After twenty-five sheep, my single fastest was .115, but as taosbat said, I lucked out due to twitchy-ness.
posted by Lord Kinbote at 11:08 AM on November 17, 2006

0.176
posted by RobHoi at 11:40 AM on November 17, 2006

I think twitchy-ness is only a virtue in Poohsticks.
posted by taosbat at 11:44 AM on November 17, 2006

I got 0.2316 my first time out... bobcat. Wasted a lot of time failing to beat that.
posted by brundlefly at 11:48 AM on November 17, 2006

0.1502. When you get under .150 a cheetah comes out and rips the head off one of the sheep and drinks the blood from its skull. I'm going for it...
posted by meech at 12:27 PM on November 17, 2006

I got a 0.000 shot once, but it was complete fluke. I don't think the time actually starts until the sheep is at a certain point. My best is 0.1807
posted by tehloki at 3:37 PM on November 17, 2006

Best I can do with a cold is a .063 dart. Still can't avg. high enough for cheetah (I can never catch that first one!).
posted by Eideteker at 3:47 PM on November 17, 2006

I hit a few ~0.06, but can't get it consistent, damned nodding sheep always get me to jump the gun. Best tea-enhansed average, .135 (still no frickin cheeta).

Does anyone else think the bottom sheep is, like, totally unfair? Because you can't see it till the last moment, but the time starts at the left.
posted by MetaMonkey at 4:04 PM on November 17, 2006

.155 average, and that's after sneezing and getting one at .254.
posted by grum@work at 4:46 PM on November 17, 2006

Best shot I had was a 0.114, not counting the two 0.000 shots I had in one round. Now I think I need to go back to letting the sheep put me to sleep (even though that will ruin my score).
posted by meditative_zebra at 6:09 PM on November 17, 2006

Save the sheep!
posted by owhydididoit at 8:39 PM on November 17, 2006