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The Great Track & Field Experiment
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--- Quote from: Cynicaster on February 02, 2012, 12:44:50 pm ---Take a plastic cup (like a big empty beer cup you'd get at a ballgame), and rapidly wipe it back and forth across the run buttons. I used to get some screamin' results with this method, but it's pretty much cheating.
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Naw! Just ingenuity!
--- Quote from: RayB on February 03, 2012, 10:17:12 pm ---There's also some ruler method where you bounce a metal ruler, but I don't quite understand how it works.
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I use a ruler. I found this little rubber mushroom-like thing I put on the centre of my trackball buttons, and the ruler atop that. It's a little high, so I bend the ruler toward one side to close the gap. Jump button is mapped to the lower left of P2, which is right about where my pinky, extended, is.
Messing about tonight, I made a better 'fulcrum' device, out of a door toggle switch or something from some kind of SUV (I found it in a parking lot), and got down to 8:80 in the 100m. It's length is less, so the see-saw interval is a tad shorter, but it's still too high.
Optimally the device would be a 3'' x 2'' plate (perhaps flexible, with rounded corners) mounted atop a north/south-running 5/16'' half-cylinder. I'm working on that.
wweumina:
Ring finger and thumb for me alternating on the two run buttons. I can get 8.59 but I've pretty much peaked at that. Developed the technique over a couple of beers one day and haven't looked back. Can't get my head (or hand) around the full finger rolling thing though.
Afterburner:
I'm like the OP....always suck at it.
Don't get to play it very often as the wife and kids all complain it makes too much noise with me slapping on the buttons.
tommyinajar:
--- Quote from: wweumina on February 04, 2012, 07:29:37 am ---Ring finger and thumb for me alternating on the two run buttons. I can get 8.59 but I've pretty much peaked at that. Developed the technique over a couple of beers one day and haven't looked back. Can't get my head (or hand) around the full finger rolling thing though.
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I'd love to see a Micro VS Leaf switch contest. Maybe with someone who has a good time with one or the other. I haven't installed my leafs yet and if I posted my best time now with micro switches, everyone would call Randy ASAP for leafs...
RetroBorg:
--- Quote from: Cynicaster on February 02, 2012, 12:44:50 pm ---Take a plastic cup (like a big empty beer cup you'd get at a ballgame), and rapidly wipe it back and forth across the run buttons. I used to get some screamin' results with this method, but it's pretty much cheating.
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Pretty much cheating? Definitely cheating! :)
You can achieve a similar result without cheating by cupping your hand, turning your hand over and rubbing the nails of all four fingers back and forth across a run button.
Using anything that isn't part of your body to hit the buttons is cheating as far as I'm concerned.