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.)
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I’m 60 and play casually, I love me some Zelda, I have not found any difference but I was never very good either. Games help you keep some functions longer, but everybody is different. You know the saying… You don’t stop playing because you grow old, you grow old because you stopped playing.
51 and the only decline is my gaming is the ability to stay up to 3 in the morning playing. Up until about midnight, no problems at all.
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I feel it’s less of a problem with hand eye coordination and more of an out of practice issue.
I just don’t have time playing for 10 hour straight anymore
It’s actually kind of the opposite. You apply your existing hand eye coordination skillz to pickleball. And you crush it.
There’s no rule for it. A pro-gamer that blows their wrist at 25 will have different mileage than a casual gamer that just plays a bit of ranked. How much you’re playing matters too since alot of gaming is muscle memory, not just raw reaction time, so if you have a job, you’re probably going to get worst at games.
43 this year and twitch reflexes still seems pretty good in R6 Siege. But I find that my time is a lot more precious so a lot of games which I’m not interested in gets left unplayed. All tagged as “Not Interested” in my Steam library
There was a study done forever ago on Korean starcraft players. They measured actions per minute (APM). APM peaks around age 26. Below that point players tend to focus on strategies that require high APM. Above it players that stay competitive tend to prefer lower APM strategies but execute them more competently. Literally replacing clicks with skill.
But by 30 we’re done. I got stupid fingers now. I used to beat Halo on legendary for fun. Last shooter I played was a Wollfenstein game and I couldn’t beat this one part on normal.
Slower reflexes is a partial reason, as is lacking the infinite free time and focus you’d have as a kid to sink into a game.
Depends on the game though. I play a lot of strategy and builder games which requires no real hand eye coordination and have only gotten better at them with age. I was awful at math and planning ahead when I was younger but developed those skills as I got older. I also noticed I tend to pick a lot of harder games than I did in my youth.
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