I was wondeing since while playing osu! that you have to react quickly to get from place to place as well as memorize as you replay the same beatmaps, I've noticed it was simular to playing an action game. So would playing Osu on a regular basis make you react faster and improve your memory thus making you smarter, or would nothing happen?
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Osu will make you an algebra genius. This is tested fact and absolutely not something I just made up without sources or citations.
I don't think playing osu! and becoming smarter have any relations
osu! is not about memorization and I haven't memorize a single map in my osu! career.Kippo wrote:
I was wondeing since while playing osu! that you have to react quickly to get from place to place as well as memorize as you replay the same beatmaps
Depends on your definition of smart. If you define smart as having knowledge, then technically, in a way, osu does make you smarter, as you will gain knowledge, but only on osu. If you consider having good reaction time / memory as being smart, then sure you would become smarter.
Generally, osu doesn't require a good memory, and will do very little in terms of improving it, but just because you haven't memorized a map, doesn't mean others haven't. FL players rely on memory 90% of the time, so if you play FL, then your memory will probably improve, and if not overall, then at least of where and when circles / sliders are in a game. Over the months that my beatmap collection has grown, I also remember and can associate a sound / map with a lot of songs, so it improves it in that manner as well.piruchan wrote:
osu! is not about memorization and I haven't memorize a single map in my osu! career.Kippo wrote:
I was wondeing since while playing osu! that you have to react quickly to get from place to place as well as memorize as you replay the same beatmaps
It will make you Steven Hawking in a year just keep going
Square and triangle patterns totally help me with geometry
Not quite playing osu but skinning for it has made me able to memorize 9 digit numbers quickly and well (who needs a color picker when you can memorize the RGB triplet, yeah!)
Otherwise, no.
Maybe thinking about the flow of the map and applying that to flow in writing, etc, but that's stretching it.
Otherwise, no.
Maybe thinking about the flow of the map and applying that to flow in writing, etc, but that's stretching it.
Intelligence = reaction time + memory?Kippo wrote:
So would playing Osu on a regular basis make you react faster and improve your memory thus making you smarter, or would nothing happen?
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Thanks for the feedback
Well the main idea I was thinking about with osu! giving you faster reaction time and possibly better memory(for some), I was comparing osu!, a rhythm game, to other action games. Since studies show that action games can improve those areas of the brains I was only thinking that osu! could have done the same thing.
Well the main idea I was thinking about with osu! giving you faster reaction time and possibly better memory(for some), I was comparing osu!, a rhythm game, to other action games. Since studies show that action games can improve those areas of the brains I was only thinking that osu! could have done the same thing.
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No, but geometry makes me good at mapping
Also Algebra
Also Algebra
This post baffles me. Just what.
Playing osu makes you smarter.
Playing osu makes you smarter.
A serious answer: Probably not.Kippo wrote:
I was wondeing since while playing osu! that you have to react quickly to get from place to place as well as memorize as you replay the same beatmaps, I've noticed it was simular to playing an action game. So would playing Osu on a regular basis make you react faster and improve your memory thus making you smarter, or would nothing happen?
I have not noticed any sort of improvement and instead have noticed that my memory has gotten way worse due to how repetitive everything in the game is. My sense of time is also pretty borked up. Sometimes I get surprised when I notice that some score I did is over 2 years old when it feels like last week.
There's no variety, which is something that I think would improve how your brain works. It's just the same thing repeated over and over.
unless you take classes where it requires the clicking of circles, then probably not
OSU! MESSES WITH YOUR BRAAAAINS
I wouldn't use the word "smart" either. Rhythm games have probably improved my
1) typing speed
2) reaction time
3) eye-hand coordination, or whatever it is in English
4) sense of rhythm, although it was fairly good to begin with
5) taste in music :----D
6) muscle memory when it comes to rhythm games
...and that's about it?
Also I had a math exam yesterday and instead of studying I played taiko so clearly osu! makes me dumb
I wouldn't use the word "smart" either. Rhythm games have probably improved my
1) typing speed
2) reaction time
3) eye-hand coordination, or whatever it is in English
4) sense of rhythm, although it was fairly good to begin with
5) taste in music :----D
6) muscle memory when it comes to rhythm games
...and that's about it?
Also I had a math exam yesterday and instead of studying I played taiko so clearly osu! makes me dumb
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OSU! MESSES WITH YOUR BRAAAAINS
I wouldn't use the word "smart" either. Rhythm games have probably improved my
1) typing speed
2) reaction time
3) eye-hand coordination, or whatever it is in English
4) sense of rhythm, although it was fairly good to begin with
5) taste in music :----D
6) muscle memory when it comes to rhythm games
...and that's about it?
Also I had a math exam yesterday and instead of studying I played taiko so clearly osu! makes me dumb
"Insanity is doing the same thing and expecting different results" - some dude somewhere. probably not Einstein like everyone seems to thinkthelewa wrote:
It's just the same thing repeated over and over.
Well if you're not some ultra talented person born to click circles you'll probably need some measure of intelligence in order to improve at a quick pace. Also some emotional intelligence would be nice so you don't lock yourself out of your account when something goes bad.
so thats something i guess. otherwise no this game is entirely brute force and wont make you smart.
so thats something i guess. otherwise no this game is entirely brute force and wont make you smart.
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It would depend on your approach to the game, although at that point it wouldn't be the game making you smarter.
If you use tablet it might make you better at using it. Or if you using mouse then your mouse accuracy comes better. But that doesn't mean you are smarter.
If you're playing mainly Nightcore and TV Size stuff, absolutely not.
Osu grants agility, but very little strength or intelligence if any at all.
In fact, knowledge without wisdom creates stupidity on a greater scale than the absence of both.
Jumping to conclusions the faster because your memory allows you to know everything doesn't make anyone smarter. Its quite the opposite (usually).Kippo wrote:
react faster and improve your memory thus making you smarter
In fact, knowledge without wisdom creates stupidity on a greater scale than the absence of both.
What's bad about TV Size stuff?Static Noise Bird wrote:
If you're playing mainly Nightcore and TV Size stuff, absolutely not.
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First thing what I did after reading your post which is full of rage I wanted to see who would hate USA so much. Then I noticed that you are from America also. That made me giggle a little. Well I guess it's normal because I also hate that Finns can't really have fun without drinking lot of alcohol.CDFA wrote:
What the fuck is up with Americans and always asking the weirdest fucking questions like seriously god damn maybe it's because they made fucking weed legal in like 3 states so you're just spending the majority of the time blazing and thinking of this shit
How totally segregated. Generalization ahoy!Therieri wrote:
Finns can't really have fun without drinking lot of alcohol.
The benefits are canceled out when the game causes you to quit school and withdraw from society.
Why this reminds me of time when I was in vocational school and there for few school mates who didn't come to school because World of Warcraft was more important.B1rd wrote:
The benefits are canceled out when the game causes you to quit school and withdraw from society.
Playing osu! really does sharpen my senses and gives me an overall increase in awareness and cognitive ability. I personally believe that playing osu! with mods such as "hidden"and "flashlight" allow you to effectively train your working memory, which has actually been shown to be a more reliable measurement of intelligence than IQ. If I play drums or piano after playing through a dozen or so beat-maps that are 4 stars or higher in difficulty, I will always find that my skills are more proficient than usual, with much less effort required to preform well.
Playing games makes you better at games
Studying makes you smarter
Studying makes you smarter
No you won't get smarter, you'll lose your social life probably though 
You'll become knowledgeable about osu and that's pretty much it, oh but unless you take it seriously and start using physics regarding the velocity and acceleration and displacement of the pen (if using a tablet) or calculating the units of pressure of your fingers when streaming in osu in accordance to the gravitational pull of the earth (as found by Newton to be 9.8 * x) then no, probably not.
The new Isaac Newton confirmed.Poisonmellon wrote:
You'll become knowledgeable about osu and that's pretty much it, oh but unless you take it seriously and start using physics regarding the velocity and acceleration and displacement of the pen (if using a tablet) or calculating the units of pressure of your fingers when streaming in osu in accordance to the gravitational pull of the earth (as found by Newton to be 9.8 * x) then no, probably not.