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Hostage

Hit only the exposed gold part, never the white no-shoot plate.

Difficulty
Advanced
Time
45 seconds
Measures
Clean hits per minute · No-shoot hits · Time per target
Input
Mouse, trackpad or touch
You control
Easy, Normal or Hard, plus target size, colour, speed, duration, play area, background, crosshair and sound

Set up and startAll exercises

What this measures

This task records clean hits per minute on a fixed, repeatable version of the task. Your result is comparable to your own previous attempts on the same device.

It does not diagnose anything, and it does not claim to improve anything beyond performance on this task. Reported times include display and input latency from your own hardware.

Stop if you feel dizzy, nauseous or strained.

How it works

Each gold target is partly covered by a white no-shoot plate. Hit only the exposed gold part. A hit on the white plate is a serious mistake.

Your result

Clean hits per minute (hits minus 3 for each no-shoot hit). Higher is better. Each difficulty (Easy, Normal, Hard) keeps its own personal best, and custom settings are saved but not ranked, so your bests stay comparable.

Read this before you compare

Precision under pressure: a smaller safe area with a big cost for mistakes. Getting better at these drills is well supported. Whether it carries into a particular game depends on that game, your sensitivity and your setup, so we don't promise it.

The science, briefly

Shooting drills combine aim with decisions: which target first, when not to shoot, when to wait. Holding back a shot you have already started is its own skill (response inhibition), and it can improve with practice on the task.

As with aim drills, getting better here is real practice on this drill. It is not proof of better results in a specific game.

Tips

  • Read the target before you shoot. A wrong shot costs more than a slow one.
  • Keep your crosshair where the next target is likely to appear.
  • Take breaks: the wrist-break reminder is under More options → Comfort.

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