Simply Read: RSVP Speed Reading

I feel terribly sorry for anyone who genuinely believes that this is a real, 2-tonne car being held upside down against a ramp using suction and then flipped over other vehicles using pressurised air or nitrogen. A few things immediately stand out. First, the moment the car leaves the ramp, it should begin falling back towards the ground far more rapidly than what we see in the video. It’s a 2-tonne vehicle, and gravity still applies. Once it leaves the ramp, any suction mechanism holding it in place becomes irrelevant. Second, the acceleration, thrust and precision required to flip a 2-tonne vehicle over the cars and truck simply do not add up to what we see on screen. The physics just don’t make sense for a vehicle of that mass. This is an impressive publicity stunt designed to sell the car and the technology behind it, nothing more. If I had to guess, I’d put the weight of the actual stunt vehicle at no more than 50 to 100 kg, rather than the claimed 2 tonnes.

It is amusing to see how defensive people get when you say anything negative about their idol.

This is not harsh enough of a sentence.

Fun fact of the day: The past tense of William Shakespeare would be Wouldiwas Shookspeared.

I would like some advice on these stats, need to know if I am heading in the right direction for my iOS app simply-track.com Are these good stats, fairly early stages and no real ads running.

This is on a brand new @instagram account for instagram.com/simply.track A little retarded that I need to submit an appeal(to verify I am human) to use it. So far I have: 1. Created the account 2. Updated the profile picture 3. Added one image related to simply track 4. Tried to use the account again. 5. Got suspended.

What else do they recommend. I am on my 5th cigarette and do not see any worms. Stopping at 8

He will be missed. Thank you for all the memories you helped create.

I practically forgot that I implemented their dns. Thanks @Cisco

This is pointless if apple takes +20 days to review a new app

6.22 bits. That is the information score of the single best Word Challenge opener, calculated across every game the puzzle could possibly throw at you, and it is probably not the word you open with every night. Most players are guessing on instinct. The ones who win in three are running a system, even if they have never written it down. Here is what is actually in it. An opener built from common, distinct letters, strong enough to narrow 1,352 possible answers down to about 28 on average, from one guess. Grey tiles read as real information, not the boring colour. A single grey can rule out more words than a blue. Duplicate letters taken seriously. Around 31.7% of our answers repeat one, which is far more than most players assume. And a Wordle hard mode adjustment, since in that mode you cannot waste a guess purely gathering information. Put together, that is the whole method. Not talent, not luck. Most players never combine all three at once, because each habit only becomes obvious once you can see the data behind it. That is exactly what our guide lays out, habit by habit, with the numbers attached to each one. Full breakdown here: word-challenge.com/guides/wo… Note: if you play Wordle too, most of this carries over, though Wordle keeps its own lists private, so treat these as Word Challenge numbers, not an official Wordle count. #WordChallengeStrategy #WordGames

Hard mode does not make the puzzle itself harder to solve. It removes your safety net instead. Every guess has to reuse what you already know. Confirmed greens stay locked in place, and any yellow letter must show up again somewhere in your next word. That single change means you can no longer burn a guess purely to test new letters, which is exactly how good players escape traps in normal mode. Traps are real, too. Our curated Word Challenge answer list has eight words ending in -IGHT: EIGHT, FIGHT, LIGHT, MIGHT, NIGHT, RIGHT, SIGHT, TIGHT. Land there with no spare guess left, and you are guessing blind. That is not a reason to avoid hard mode altogether. Most players who leave it switched on say the game feels more satisfying, since every guess has to earn its place instead of half of them being safe filler. The fix is picking an opener that could itself win outright, since you will not get a free probe later. In our data, TALES tops the list of openers restricted to possible answers, cutting the field to about 30 candidates on average at 6.13 bits. Lock that opener in before your next hard-mode game, and most of the risk above disappears on its own. Rules, mindset and the openers that protect your streak: word-challenge.com/guides/wo… Note: these numbers come from our Word Challenge word list, since Wordle keeps its own lists private. #WordleHardMode #WordleTips

Well... This is interesting. I don't even know where the jump comes from. 2 of my apps have the same jump in impressions the last few days. This one is for word-challenge.com

Five habits. That's all it takes to turn a win into a loss, night after night, with no bad luck involved at all. Three of the worst offenders: Reusing the same opener out of habit, even after it stops producing a blue letter for six games running. Treating grey tiles as dead information, instead of the elimination data they actually are. Forgetting that a gold tile rules out one position while confirming the letter itself, so the same gold slips straight back into the wrong spot on the next guess. Here's how habit two bites you hardest. You lock in two blues on guess two, then spend guess three on a word that shares four letters with it, just to "confirm" the pattern. That's a full guess that taught you nothing new. None of this needs a solver or a rebuild of how you play. It needs you to notice what your last few losses had in common. Play Wordle instead? Same five habits, same fixes. None of these habits feel like mistakes in the moment. They feel like routine, which is exactly why they're easy to miss and even easier to fix once you know what to look for. Small, repeatable habits cost far more guesses over a month than one unlucky word ever will. All five habits, and the one-line fix for each: word-challenge.com/blog/word… #WordChallengeMistakes #WordChallengeTips #BrainGames

TARES and MAMMA. Both real five-letter words. Both legal Word Challenge openers. Wildly different results. TARES tests five distinct letters, all common, all sitting in the positions they usually occupy. That matters because a letter in its natural spot tends to come back blue rather than gold, and a blue pins down the letter and the position in one move. MAMMA tests two. Three Ms, two As. Repeating a letter does not ask a new question, it just checks how many copies the answer holds, a fair question for guess three and a poor one for guess one. Scored by entropy, the measure of how much a guess actually teaches you, TARES extracts 6.22 bits of information. MAMMA barely clears 2. We scored both against all 1,352 possible answers on the Word Challenge word list. TARES leaves about 28 candidates on average. MAMMA leaves about 435. That is roughly 16 times as many answers surviving MAMMA. Same five tiles, same rules, one guess doing sixteen times less work than the other. Pick an opener the same way you would judge these two. Five different letters. Common ones. Natural spots. Save the repeats for guess three, once the field has actually narrowed enough to need them. Full comparison: word-challenge.com/blog/why-… Wordle players will see the same pattern, though Wordle keeps its own answer and guess lists private, so treat these numbers as ours, not theirs. #StartingWord #WordChallengeStrategy #WordNerd

Stop calling AUDIO a smart Word Challenge opener. It feels clever. Four vowels, one clean word, surely that is efficient. It is actually one of the weaker popular picks, and the gap is not small. AUDIO is not a rare word or a bad one to know, it sits close to the middle of the table once every valid Word Challenge guess is scored by entropy. Being average sounds fine, until you see how far the average sits from the best. Four vowels means one consonant slot. Consonants are where Word Challenge puzzles get solved. Vowels are so common that confirming one barely narrows anything. We measured it properly. Scored against all 1,352 possible answers on the Word Challenge word list, AUDIO leaves about 112 candidates standing. The strongest opener we have found leaves about 28. That is roughly four times as many answers still in play, from one guess. ADIEU has the same problem, just with a different vowel set. Swap either for a word that pairs one or two vowels with common consonants, and the difference shows up by guess three. AUDIO is not a bad word. It is just not the clever pick people think it is, and now you have the numbers to prove it. Full numbers: word-challenge.com/blog/why-… Wordle works the same way, so this holds there too, though Wordle keeps its own lists private and these numbers are ours. #WordChallengeMyths #WordChallengeStrategy #WordChallengeTips

Five word games. Five completely different brains. Word Challenge is for the deductive. Six guesses, one hidden word, almost no vocabulary advantage, just reasoning from the colours you are given. The same logic applies to Wordle too, to a degree. Scrabble is for the strategist. The biggest word on your rack is often the wrong play if it hands your opponent the board. Spelling Bee is for the completionist. Seven letters, one required centre letter, and often forty or more words still hiding after you think you are done. Anagrams and crosswords are for the pattern-spotter. Anagrams through fast rearrangement, crosswords by layering on general knowledge and wordplay on top. Not sure which one is you? Check what annoys you. Running out of guesses too soon means a completionist at heart. A slow opponent driving you mad means you want Word Challenge's tight loop instead. A trivia-heavy crossword clue needling you means you are a pattern-spotter through and through. None of them is the "real" word game. They just reward different thinking, which is probably why you love one and cannot get on with another. Our guide matches the game to how you think, and links the free solver for each one, Wordle, Scrabble, Spelling Bee and anagram. word-challenge.com/blog/whic… #WordGames #WordChallenge #Scrabble #Puzzles

Forget the maths anxiety. Here is what information gain in Word Challenge actually means. One bit equals one halving of the answers still possible. Ask a perfect yes or no question about the hidden word, and whichever way it lands, your candidate list is cut in two. That is it. That is the whole concept. A real Word Challenge guess bundles several of those questions into a single move, then the tile colours answer all of them at once. The number that matters: our top-ranked opener earns 6.22 bits in one guess. That is a division factor of about 75, so one blind opening guess removes close to 98 per cent of the Word Challenge word list's 1,352 curated answers before you have typed a second word. Identifying one exact answer out of our full list takes about 10.4 bits, total. A strong opener supplies most of that in a single move, which is the real reason the first two guesses decide most games. Colour does not decide the value either. A grey tile on a common letter can rule out more answers than a blue tile on a rare one, because information is about what a pattern eliminates, not how satisfying it looks on screen. You do not need to compute any of this yourself. Open with a high-information word, treat grey tiles as wins, and let the numbers do the work. Full breakdown: word-challenge.com/blog/what… Note: figures are from the Word Challenge word list. If you play Wordle, most of this carries over too, though it keeps its own lists private, so treat these as our numbers. #InformationGain #WordChallengeStrategy #Statistics