beta test my math game

Love the game! However, I played it on Firefox on my Android phone. I get a numpad for the answers but can't type the negative sign. That would nice if it could be fixed :)

0:53, no errors...and I thought I was being slow? (not a brag, just feedback on my first impressions) I don't type numbers regularly, so I felt like it was slowing me down. I don't know if other folks had that perception, but it stood out the whole time. I think I also paused at the first negative number, 'cause I wasn't expecting them and didn't know if I was meant to use the numpad - for that (turns out yes, or at least it was considered correct). I think it's good there's no feedback as you go, it would just be distracting. If you end up with enough data points to get a curve, it might be interesting to see what that looks like...but I don't know how hard that'd be to code (vs. graph and show later).

I'd like to know just how much better than other people I am

On the programming side - on my second attempt I got 21 questions instead of 20.

Now that I'm prepped, I'm working for speed, and got 32 sec on the third try with no errors. Not sure what the overall goal is, but if it's to see how fast people can do math in their heads, then it should have a spread of different types For me, easiest is powers of 2, 5, and 10. So 10x15 is super easy, but 17x19 is way harder, and can skew the results. Also, plus, minus, multiply and divide by zero are special, and I think it should have one addition/subtraction and one multiply/divide with zero. Negative numbers are also a little tricky, so should have the same amount of those in each test, maybe 2-4? That way, you get a better sense of the average, because if a handful have 16x13, and the rest are all simper ones, definitely will skew the results Oh, and 7x9 is way easier than 17x19

I had a few play-throughs to get a bit better exposure. Nothing much more to add to what others have already said above, except from: I got a few 0+ or 0x questions in a row which are so trivial that, when I got lucky and got six in a row on one attempt, it kind of skewed my time downwards… unless the 0+ and 0x (and 1x) questions are somehow key to the purpose/research of your video, I’d consider omitting them, personally?? Looking forward to the next video in any case - please keep up the great work Sabrina and friends :D PS. Everyone else has shared, so I got 00:57 with 0 errors (not my many-zeros run, that was 00:42, which hopefully gives a sense of the scale of my point above!) :)

I just remembered where I saw this before. A friend's 7 year old (at the time) made this and put it on Steam (with a little help from her dad😆) https://store.steampowered.com/app/425770/Answer_The_Question/

I'm curious, how did you handle the deployment for this website?

0:42 seconds with 0 errors. Nice quick and fun. I guess since I got them all right, there was no indications on what was right or wrong. But i like the simplistic view of it. lets me focus on the question easily.

2:03 with 0 errors, which I am genuinely surprised about because I am TERRIBLE at multiplication of anything beyond 12x12. I don't know anything about coding so I can't help you there, but I liked the simplistic design. It was easy to focus on the question in front of me, whereas I remember in school having those sheets of 100 quick math questions all in my face used to get my heart racing.

I'm really interested in what this video could be now because it seems obvious smaller operations are easier and larger operations (double digits) are hard. Multiplication/division of 2 numbers took me 10-30 seconds every time. I never learned any tricks or shortcuts in school and I've always just resorted to a calculator for that stuff. I got like around 7:30 and 1 wrong answer my first try. Then I tried to test for errors in the text field for a while. Then I just tried to be fast and got 2:20 and 3 wrong my second actual attempt.

1:41 with 3 errors. I like that I didn't know how well I did error-wise until the very end.

Although there are no questions that involve decimal answers, I did notice that if the correct answer was 6 and I typed 6.5 or 6.33333333333, it marked me as correct.

2:50 with 0 errors. Figured I would get atleast one wrong answer.

Also, thanks to the console.log, I got 40 seconds and no errors 🤣

Did it three times. First time, I didn't pay attention to some of the operators because I was going fast, second time don't know which one I got wrong, third time 0 errors, just over a minute! I would say my math is faster than I can type it, I had to keep looking down to put in my answer

There's some stuff in the code that looks a little _weird_ to me but it works, so does it matter? ¯\(°_o)/¯ The one thing that I would suggest is adding `a.focus();` in your start function. This will put the cursor in the input box; shaving a second or two while someone clicks there.

i like it! the fact that there’s not a whole lot going on during the game helps me get “in the zone” for this. after the game’s done, however, i think i’d like to see the breakdown of what i got right and wrong, but other than that this is really good!

I feel like I suck at mental math, but I got only one error in 2:36. Would be cool to have the results display the problems you got wrong.

30/30 in 3:34… Doing 16×18 in my head is what got me, but at least I got the right answer

Oh my God, the multiplication!!! Took almost 5 minutes and got 17 questions wrong. Most from double digit multiplication which I simply don't know how to do, probably some from negative answers (those below zero, couldn't figure out the negative sign)

1:51 with 2 errors, worked fine but i think there should be more visual feedback when you have one wrong

1) on the very first question I was looking for a button to click for submitting an answer, before I thought to just hit enter. 2) Having questions that the answer is negative is a typing nuisance, maybe? 3) It might be worth giving a right/wrong response on each question. At least once during the test I realized I was thinking about a previous answer after I'd submitted it because I wasn't sure if it was right, and wasn't answering the current question. 4) I'd like to see my results at the end! I only got one wrong, but I'd like to know where my math was bad!

its great! definitely need to work on my 16 and 17 times tables apparently

No issues! I got 00:01:33 with no errors :^) thx engineering degree for the math skillz

Can I send it to some of my friends? We really loke to compete in silliy games like this from time to time :P

Everything worked great but I still suck at math. 00:02:33 as my final time with 4 errors :D

Cool! 😎