Is it true that the older you get, the worse you’ll get at video games due to hand eye co-ordination?

Question

I’m in my 40’s and I was just wondering when is the cut off when improvements stop happening and hand eye co-ordination decreases? I assume it does as you get older or is that not so? (I am a Gamer and I enjoy gaming as a means of stress relief and just wondering if there’s been studies saying such.)

In: Biology

Answer 1

Reflex slowdowns as you age are overblown.

We’re talking 2-6 milliseconds per decade after age 25.

I guarantee you teenagers aren’t owning you because they have 4-12ms better “ping” than you.

So why are you really losing to teenagers?

Because they’re probably playing more in a day than you do in a week.