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[โ€“] Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (1 children)

In my own experience, now in my 50s and having played games since my teens, including a long period of RPGs and FPS online, reaction times start dropping in your 30s.

It's a tiny bit and you only really notice it when you're operating near your limits (same for intelligence, by the way - if you're using it near capacity, you'll notice that your capabilities start falling at around your mid 20s).

However, you can compensate it with experience, smarts and even wisdom - for example in FPS games you use the environment against other players, lead them into doing something predicable and get them then and/or prefer play styles that don't depend on reaction speed.

(IMHO, the world top people at for example sports, are the ones who already early in their careers combine top physicallity with experience, smarts and wisdom)

It's just a fact of life that physical and mental capacities do decay with age and far earlier than you seem to think, and whilst if you keep on using them it's not that much, if you're using them at a near peak-level it's noticeable if you pay attention as you can't just reach the peaks you could reach before.

[โ€“] ampersandrew@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago

And in my experience, having gotten into fighting games in a serious way for the first time at age 30 (I'm now 37), people tend to attribute atypical "good reaction times" to what are actually smart input buffering techniques. In a crowd populated by mostly 20-somethings, I still routinely end up in the top 15% in a given game, and those opponents that beat me never feel like the difference was reaction time. Going from memory from a link I'll surely never be able to find again, so take this with a grain of salt, the US Air Force had a vested interest in studying how reaction times change as we age and found that it didn't really start to decay in any meaningful way until long after 40.