So one thing I've noticed about myself is that I play better when my conscious mind is distracted. For instance, listening to music while daydreaming or listening to audiobooks seems to improve my play. I was wondering if the same is true for anyone else and if so, what do you use to distract yourself?
I try not to think about distracting myself volountarily, even though when it happens that not thinking about my game 80 90% of the time makes me more consistent. I just play and play. I also try and enjoy the sound of the game, even if I have no idea if the sounds of the blocks actually help me focus or understand more stuff. Technically, if I play all day long, my performance graph during a day does something like this (scientifically proven) : Code: /\ / \ ---- / \ \ / \ \ / \ -- / \ \----------- 0 minutes 1 hour .... Lots of hours So yeah, I have a distraction in my opinion, but I would say it's made by the game's distractions themselves
my curve is almost the exact same! i listen to music or a TED talk or radiolab when i play and it works well to distract me, but not too much.
So I did some testing with this over the weekend and I found that a low-level distraction works the best. I tried an audio book, music with lyrics, music without lyrics, and mind-numbing silence. I found that a combination of music without lyrics and a liberal amount of daydreaming seemed to yield the highest scores. I tried the in-game music, but after a while it melts my brain, so I replaced it with movie soundtracks.
Hmm the French like their brains to be melted. Much like Cyberguile would say : "Do not THINK, FEEL!"
Truth. Use the Force, Luke... (Not to be confused with analysis and experimentation. Those are good times for thinking. )
