Can playing games like FFR make you smarter?

[hairyhabenaro]

Do you think playing these types of games can improve your mental abilities in any way? To get better you have to learn to comprehend more information accurtately and at a faster and faster pace. Has anyone notice their memory, reading speed, or anything else change since you started playing?

[Doug31]

Re: Can playing games like FFR make you smarter?

I think it's made me have a worse memory and lower reading speed, since I feel I can barely remember anything I study for tests this quarter, and I thought I used to be one of the best studiers around. I heard on the news a list of games that were good for the brain, and this certainly wasn't one of them.

This game only lets you comprehend information that is worthless in other activites faster and faster.

[tsugomaru]

Re: Can playing games like FFR make you smarter?

Over the last couple of years, IQ has actually gone up because of games like this, but that is only because they are said to improve your reaction speeds which is one of the elements in an IQ test.

~Tsugomaru

[lumphoboextreme]

Re: Can playing games like FFR make you smarter?

lol.. oh well. back to playing

[Windscarredfaith]

Re: Can playing games like FFR make you smarter?

I don't think it makes you smarter... but it definitely enhances hand-eye-coordination as well as reflexes.

[powerdown]

Re: Can playing games like FFR make you smarter?

If anything I would say it makes it makes me stupider. I'll come home from school play a few games, attempt to do homework, and find myself constantly looking back at the notes I've taken to do simple Trig. Call it ADD (which in my opinion DOES NOT EXIST! It's just an excuse as to why your child sucks in school), call it catchy songs, whatever it is, when it comes to mental expansion, FFR definately have a negative effect on myself.

I will not say that it doesnt improve some aspects of the mind/body, i.e Hand-Eye Coordination, Rythmn, Dexterity, etc. However, these things dont play as major a role in day to day life as mental capacity. Sure you can catch a ball better, sure you wont look like a fool when you go to a school dance, but honestly, these things will only get you so far.

[Fantasticone]

Re: Can playing games like FFR make you smarter?

I have seen ffr improve my table hockey and badmiton (sorry if spelled wrong) skills, but other than that nothing else.

[Megmo]

Re: Can playing games like FFR make you smarter?

I have actually been wondering this myself. I haven't noticed any ability to read text faster, though. I haven't really noticed an improvement in my reflexes as a result of FFR in real life situations. If I drop something it still breaks on the floor before I can catch it. This site has actually made me stupider because it distracts me from homework. I have no hope of preparing well for finals.

[mmeegghhaann]

Re: Can playing games like FFR make you smarter?

I completely procrastinate everything thanks to ffr. So if ffr has made me smarter, my grades sure dont show it.

[TheRapingDragon]

Re: Can playing games like FFR make you smarter?

FFR will:

I - Increase your reaction time
II - Increase your typing speed due to being able to hit arrows faster, so you should be able to hit any key on the keyboard faster.

FFR will not:

I - Increase your intelligence.
II - Give you muscles.
III - Keep you fit.

[Kashazu]

Re: Can playing games like FFR make you smarter?

'Nuff said

[Shashakiro]

Re: Can playing games like FFR make you smarter?

I have WAY better reflexes than most people...I haven't lost a game of Egyptian Rat Screw in a REALLY long time rofl

But no, it doesn't make you more intelligent, as far as I know.

[spyke252]

Re: Can playing games like FFR make you smarter?

ADD (which in my opinion DOES NOT EXIST! It's just an excuse as to why your child sucks in school)

I totally disagree with this statement.
I have ADD, and I do not suck at school. Therefore, your statement is disproven.


On topic though, umm... I actually am better in band. I'm much better at sightreading hard pieces, because I understand more rhythms and all.

On the topic of procrastination... I did it before, and I don't play much unless I have nothing else to do. Physics AP is the only class I have played this in that matters, but I already understood what we were talking about.

My typing speed has defininitely improved, but I also have many more mistakes. I said definately a second ago, and before ffr I almost never did that.

My wrists also hurt much less when I write a lot... but that could have nothing to do with ffr. I think it does though...

I really want to play ERS now, Shash. I pretty much beat everyone before I started coming here. I wonder how I'll fare now.

But smarter? Nah.

[gerbi7]

Re: Can playing games like FFR make you smarter?

Definetly improves your periphial vision, reaction time, physical typing ability, and maybe reading, and rhythm skills.

[Patashu]

Re: Can playing games like FFR make you smarter?

I remember reading an article about how a sense of rhythm helped the brain think, and about a program using a metronome to improve this sense, and how it proposed DDR would work just as well as the thousand-dollar sessions.

So, possibly.