Absolutely placebo. Finger dexterity and rhythm hardly transfer to Quake. This is a game where you are using the mouse to put a static 2D crosshair on a moving target. I doubt many have practiced Quake with a metronome and that is because unless it is defrag specific there is no reason to. Instrument virtuosity has nothing to do with Quake.
Actually reading and playing are two different things, if you can read and play in the same time it means your brain can synchronise two skills, not everyone can read solfège/solfeggio, many geniuses don't even know it at all, and even amongst the bests not everyone has the same level of reading skills. If you play at a good level, and also read at a good level you actually have a great capacity to combine two different tasks.
There are studies about individuals doing multi-tasking. I'm not updated really about this, I still have in my mind the old stereotype that women are better than men at this, but as far as I know there has been some denials (legit ones) on this.
Anyway you are right about these tasks being different, but you are underestimating one's capacity to do many things in the same time (seeing, moving precisely the mice according to what he sees).
It's interesting what you said about rhythm and dexterity, but this is like... not even what's music is about only :D.
Yeah as somebody said below this is really good practice for instagib. It doesn't reflect your in game skills but its still better than nothing and I do notice difference compared to when I tried it on a laptop LCD.
p.s Nice image host by the way, I will use more often from now. Imgur is getting way too sluggish now due to popularity. Minus.com is another favorite of mine
how do u get a score that loew
i got up to two minutes and 10 seconds my first time
which is about 400 of them
ps that's not a hand eye coordination test, that's a test of how good your target acquisition is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y1WoLkNOu4Y this guy got about 3:00 but his aim400kg smalldot test scores are kinda low
of course duel requires no ability for target acquisition since it's just sound whoring
yeah, but with aimbooster you can spread the targets across a wider area, and make the targets smaller, and get better than others and keep it consistent.
Well I gave this one a try as well and I pretty much hit the leaderboard again http://i.imgur.com/jS48Awv.png
From all these tests it seems 0.166ms to be my average and not counting a 0.32ms and 0.99ms where I got lucky. This just made me love my CRT more to be honest
http://i.imgur.com/plwW2rx.jpg
yeah dunno about this test, with age + setup lag it shouldn't be that good anymore (none of those were "lucky clicks" but there's no way .116 and .118 are right)
-edit- http://i.imgur.com/4wDpA6F.jpg
dat consistent clickz
I don't know where you got that idea from but web browsers will not do more than 60hz without aero. Go here http://www.testufo.com/ if you don't believe me. Also you need to use google chrome or firefox.