What time of day are you usually at your best performance?

gs68 · Post by **gs68** » Sat Dec 10, 2005 9:12 am

I find that I do well late at night, past my bedtime. If I play after school or after waking up, for example, I'm not that alert and I make stupid mistakes easily.

It could have something to do with alertness, though I was getting kinda sleepy when I set my latest Mushi high score.

Ord · Post by **Ord** » Sat Dec 10, 2005 9:53 am

Just after lunch time, but ONLY if i've had a light lunch.

Post by **Shatterhand** » Sat Dec 10, 2005 9:53 am

Usually at night too, I do everything better late at night.

I can't do anything properly early in the morning.

SheSaidDutch · Post by **SheSaidDutch** » Sat Dec 10, 2005 12:14 pm

Shatterhand wrote:Usually at night too, I do everything better late at night.

I can't do anything properly early in the morning.

Leeram · Post by **Leeram** » Sat Dec 10, 2005 12:17 pm

First thing in the morning with a cup of tea and NO KIDS hassling me. A very rare event these days.

Cheers

Lee

professor ganson · Post by **professor ganson** » Sat Dec 10, 2005 1:20 pm

Leeram wrote:First thing in the morning with a cup of tea and NO KIDS hassling me. A very rare event these days.

Ditto, except I'll take coffee for the best performance. And sometimes after lunch is good too. Unfortunately I have to do most of my gaming at night, when I'm pretty beat up from the day. And if I play too late at night, it gets me all wired and I can't sleep properly.

Zaarock · Post by **Zaarock** » Sat Dec 10, 2005 2:21 pm

Meh, i play best late too, but i usually do other stuff then and/or have to end the game if i started it

zinger · Post by **zinger** » Sat Dec 10, 2005 2:44 pm

Any time of the day/night. If I really want to improve my chances greatly, I make sure my room is clean, my stomach is somewhat satisfied, that I have gotten enough sleep and fresh air. This applies to basically anything I do.

Accutron · Post by **Accutron** » Sat Dec 10, 2005 2:46 pm

First thing in the morning, after a cigarette and something with caffiene.

JBC · Post by **JBC** » Sat Dec 10, 2005 2:58 pm

zinger wrote:Any time of the day/night. If I really want to improve my chances greatly, I make sure my room is clean, my stomach is somewhat satisfied, that I have gotten enough sleep and fresh air. This applies to basically anything I do.

I'm the same way - but i must also have taken my vitamins and have freshly clean clothes!

landshark · Post by **landshark** » Sat Dec 10, 2005 4:26 pm

After 1am, don't know why.

Post by **nZero** » Sat Dec 10, 2005 4:36 pm

Seems to depend on the genre. Right after I wake up or late at night for racing games. Between daily activities for shmups. Free afternoon for adventuring or RPG type games. Needless to say I don't play a lot of that last item anymore.

CIT · Post by **CIT** » Sat Dec 10, 2005 4:37 pm

After lunch works best for me.

Apart from that it's like professor ganson said:

professor ganson wrote:Unfortunately I have to do most of my gaming at night, when I'm pretty beat up from the day. And if I play too late at night, it gets me all wired and I can't sleep properly.

Post by **BulletMagnet** » Sat Dec 10, 2005 4:59 pm

If I ever manage to have a "best performance" I'll hafta let you know.

Ganelon · Post by **Ganelon** » Sat Dec 10, 2005 5:23 pm

zinger wrote:Any time of the day/night. If I really want to improve my chances greatly, I make sure my room is clean, my stomach is somewhat satisfied, that I have gotten enough sleep and fresh air. This applies to basically anything I do.

Thirded. If I feel good and aren't dozing off or thinking about food, anytime is good.

Damocles · Post by **Damocles** » Sat Dec 10, 2005 5:25 pm

After midnight. Over half my 1cc's have been between 12am and 3am.

LUNardei · Post by **LUNardei** » Sat Dec 10, 2005 6:27 pm

At night.

Diabollokus · Post by **Diabollokus** » Sat Dec 10, 2005 7:31 pm

Actually this was researched a few years back, they concluded gamers produced their best result after sleeping on a game they were playing the night before and the best performance normally occured the morning after.
i.e. you play game at night, wake up play it again, = your better at game

Can't remember the source think it was a university over in england. Regarless probably wasn't a co-ordination/memory genre like a shmup.

LUNardei · Post by **LUNardei** » Sat Dec 10, 2005 7:37 pm

Diabollokus wrote:i.e. you play game at night, wake up play it again, = your better at game

Seems a good tip...

SheSaidDutch · Post by **SheSaidDutch** » Sat Dec 10, 2005 11:56 pm

LUNardei wrote:
Diabollokus wrote:i.e. you play game at night, wake up play it again, = your better at game
Seems a good tip...

I wonder If It'll work on more things in life than just games

ave · Post by **ave** » Sat Dec 10, 2005 11:59 pm

Friday Evening at 7pm to 11pm. Last year, i got a new ikaruga highscore every week on friday.

Damocles · Post by **Damocles** » Sun Dec 11, 2005 1:57 am

SheSaidDutch wrote:
LUNardei wrote:
Diabollokus wrote:i.e. you play game at night, wake up play it again, = your better at game
Seems a good tip...
I wonder If It'll work on more things in life than just games

Actually, yes. Research has shown that the human brain uses the downtime during sleep to process information garnered during the day. Data shows that sleep helps in retention of knowledge and boosts performance. I can't list specific sources for this though....been too long since that particular psych course.

LoneSage · Post by **LoneSage** » Sun Dec 11, 2005 3:24 am

I only seriously play video games at night if I want to beat a game or do something notable in a game, whereas during the day I just dick around having fun for the sake of fun in games.

So yeah, better at night -- around the twilight hours.

Fighter17 · Post by **Fighter17** » Sun Dec 11, 2005 3:28 am

Damocles wrote:
SheSaidDutch wrote:
LUNardei wrote: Seems a good tip...
I wonder If It'll work on more things in life than just games
Actually, yes. Research has shown that the human brain uses the downtime during sleep to process information garnered during the day. Data shows that sleep helps in retention of knowledge and boosts performance. I can't list specific sources for this though....been too long since that particular psych course.

Let me try that.

Shalashaska · Post by **Shalashaska** » Sun Dec 11, 2005 5:11 am

Accutron wrote:First thing in the morning, after a cigarette and something with caffiene.

Same, minus the cigarette.

IlMrm · Post by **IlMrm** » Sun Dec 11, 2005 7:50 am

After a 20 oz soda/high sugar snacks, from around 1-5pm.

Morning and past midnight are terrible.

captain ahar · Post by **captain ahar** » Mon Dec 12, 2005 1:59 pm

i usually play best right before i have to leave for work. :B

so generally its late afternoon (between 4 and 6)

ST Dragon · Post by **ST Dragon** » Mon Dec 12, 2005 2:21 pm

During winter time I play better at around 15:00 - 21:00
Where as, during Summer time I'm at my peak performance between 19:00 - 23:00.

I'm also very productive on Saturday mornings, especially on Run N' Gun, platform shooter like Strider & cute platform games like Sonic.

For me, Sunday afternoons are always best for Adventure platform games like SOTN & Blackthorne, RPGs like Terranigma & Zelda and for classic PC adventure games like Monkey Island.

Awesome experience which was also combined with the right time of the year was when I played through Hexen 1 during winter of 1996. The weather was ideal for the dark, sinister & fogy theme of the game and offered the perfect atmosphere. It was a very cold & dark winter that year, for Athenian standard that is…
It took 5 months to complete right in time for spring.