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Post by **Dr. Dos** » Wed Aug 22, 2007 9:16 pm

wait nevermind this

Post by **Alexis Janson** » Thu Aug 23, 2007 10:41 am

can anyone beat gingermuffins, or do i have to do it myself?

Post by **Zenith Nadir** » Thu Aug 23, 2007 11:05 am

Post by **Alexis Janson** » Thu Aug 23, 2007 4:39 pm

Very well then.

Five hundred thousand moves.

Commodore · Post by **Commodore** » Thu Aug 23, 2007 8:19 pm

did you count while doing it, have a program counting for you, or did you just do some crazy math?

Post by **Quantum P.** » Thu Aug 23, 2007 8:54 pm

You could have a player clone in the corner with a couple of objects whose sole purpose would be to count how many times the arrow keys were pressed. Downside would be that it would take up at least 5 spaces that could be filled with gems!

Also, it's nice to see this kind of contest again! I'll take a stab at it if I have some time.

Shadow Mage · Post by **Shadow Mage** » Fri Aug 24, 2007 1:22 am

Quantum P. wrote:You could have a player clone in the corner with a couple of objects whose sole purpose would be to count how many times the arrow keys were pressed. Downside would be that it would take up at least 5 spaces that could be filled with gems!

Also, it's nice to see this kind of contest again! I'll take a stab at it if I have some time.

No you can't, objects arn't allowed. I had an idea, but I don't think it would work.

Post by **Alexis Janson** » Fri Aug 24, 2007 2:34 am

Commodore wrote:did you count while doing it, have a program counting for you, or did you just do some crazy math?

I'm just estimating, it would be pretty complicated to figure out the exact number. I'm pretty sure it's between 5 and 6 hundred thousand.

Post by **Quantum P.** » Fri Aug 24, 2007 4:41 am

Shadow Mage wrote:
Quantum P. wrote:You could have a player clone in the corner with a couple of objects whose sole purpose would be to count how many times the arrow keys were pressed. Downside would be that it would take up at least 5 spaces that could be filled with gems!

Also, it's nice to see this kind of contest again! I'll take a stab at it if I have some time.
No you can't, objects arn't allowed. I had an idea, but I don't think it would work.

I know - I was thinking something like what Dr. Dos did, where there was a board with an automatic counting thingamajig in addition to the official board.

Commodore · Post by **Commodore** » Fri Aug 24, 2007 8:53 am

how long would 500000 key pushes take?

Post by **Dr. Dos** » Fri Aug 24, 2007 7:41 pm

There's a dosbox with savestates and recording for speedruns that's never been used for a speedrun, but every time you press a key it lists it in that status window dosbox opens. You can probably paste that giant buffer into something and see how many lines it is.

Post by **Alexis Janson** » Sat Aug 25, 2007 3:03 am

If you worked pretty fast and either saved or didn't make mistakes, it would take about 29 hours, i think.

Zandor 12 · Post by **Zandor 12** » Sun Aug 26, 2007 12:30 am

I finally understand your avatar.