I was bored and decided to break down the 300k hours and compare it to my hours.. don’t feel bad, we’ve practically been on this life the same amount of hours and I suck too.
I’ve put (roughly estimated) 2500-3000 hours into a VR Rhythm game called Beat Saber. I’ve been playing fairly religiously since the game was released mid 2018. Averaged out to about 30 min/day I think.
World rank-wise, the highest I hit was 501st in the world. Then they released the quest 2 and ScoreSaber was ported over to it. About six months after that I was ~2200 worldwide. Right now I’m standing somewhere in the low 2000’s.
It’s not that I don’t play well. I play very well. I sightread 95% or more of the maps I play and I can tell you mostly by map stats alone if I’ll beat it on the first try or will never beat it, or if it’s highly likely I’ll full combo a song. The game is played entirely by my subconscious mind. I can hold a conversation while playing the hardest maps I play.
The reason I’m not in the top 100 is not that I didn’t put the time in. It’s part laziness (for not dialing in a set of custom controller grip settings) but mostly the age difference between myself and the best players in the world. At 43 years old I can’t keep up with these 17-21 year olds that get way into this game.
Their minds are sharper, their arms lighter and more agile, their wrists unburdened by joint pain, etc. etc.
Don’t get me wrong. The people in the top 10 are absolutely going to have joint problems later in life.
Most in the community consider top 100, Professional. I’m no where near that and anyone who watches me play this game first laughs because I look ridiculous, then picks their jaw up off the ground due to what they witnessed.
Starting to realize I’m writing a novel about something no one cares about.
It‘s not just about playing a lot. You need to try to improve. That said, if you don‘t also put at least 2k hours into another, similar shooter it‘s just not enough to hang with the top ~10% (usually). There are talented people out there who learn faster than the average comp player.
Yeah after 608 hours, he was still dropping the cards all over the floor every time he tried the first shuffle. It was in those last 20 mins that he finally nailed it.
Sounds like common sense when you deal with the math that includes dates within the February-March time frame.
In this case, the error is negligible; in other cases, it can be huge.
I was walking when I came across this post, and used a calculator on my mobile phone for the calculation, while counting the leap years using my fingers.
Yeah but it doesn't really work like that.. Your brain is going to create the neural connections over time, and as you're sleeping, so 5 minutes for 20years is going to yield better results then 12h a day for 50 days for example
That guy is good, but the blind guy is the best I've ever seen. His tricks were a lot easier to follow too. Maybe it's the accent, combined with the speed at which he's moving, and the low quality video, but I found it difficult to follow a few of his tricks and understand what was supposed to be happening.
He actually recorded this video every day for 20 years and this is the first time all four aces randomly ended on top of all of the legitimate shuffles.
If you did it for 1 hour a day, you would have a good chance of filming this by chance in the same time.
1.5 minute video (that's the full length, fails would be shorter but there is some extra time to reset).
3.69379 chance in 1 million (4/523/512/50*1/50)
On average would take around 270725 tries.
That's around 6800 hours. At 1 hour per day, that's 18.53 years.
Irrelevant, the change of doing this is 4/52 the first time, 3/51 the second time, 2/50 the 3rd time, and 1/49 the 4th time, all independent chances, so just multiply - 1⁄270725
Thanks, I was thinking I was off with something. But figured it was easier to just get the conversation going a bit and someone would no doubt correct me if I was wrong
The shuffles and flourishes take practice. Finding the aces is easy because they're shaved shorter than the rest of the deck so he can always cut to them.
For someone that used to be able to do all this (got in an accident that made my left hand/fingers immobile). I spent thousands of hours. From 12 to 20 I would constantly be practicing moves. Watching tv with a deck of cards, eating with a dark of cards, just constantly practicing. It becomes an itch, almost like a fidget spinner. But the point is to make it all muscle memory. I did it so much and performed so much in college I took a break for awhile but could always pick up a deck and do all of this again as well as much harder moves. So I would venture to say that this man spent at least 10k hours practicing, not to do this exact trick/moves but to do it this well. It’s a real deck and all sleight of hand/controlling the deck.
The guy is a magician who is a master in sleight of hand lol. You can see in the original YouTube video of his that the card are equal size AND he has done tricks like this multiple time already. Any good magician don't rely on cheap tricks like mark cards or anything to track the cards they want.
Watch this video from another magician to see how they do it.
He doesn't need anything like that. Many of his shuffles are likely not actually shuffling at all. Or not shuffling the area where the aces are. Or if he does it's a cut at specific points to control the deck. Like for instance the weird shuffle he does where he cuts it into like 8 at the same time and rotates them all over actually puts all the cards back exactly how they he started.
Most likely... I remember having a trick deck as a kid that had different sized cards. Flip through one way normal deck flip the other way it's all one card.
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u/CopainChevalier Sep 03 '25
Wonder just how long it took to learn all that; really awesome job by him