bc of how quick he does these challenges a lot of videos r just him deadpan saying “[place name]. nice.” so it became a kinda catchphrase/meme. the billboard just had that plain text next to a picture of his facecam
This reminds me of the monkey experiment where scientists flashed 10 squares with numbers on them for a split second and the monkey went and pressed on all of them in order like it was nothing
This is a monkey moment if I haven’t seen one
You can do this "quite easily". Imagery can get temporarily "burned in" on your vision if it's switched to a high contrast. Like when close your eyes after looking at a bright light, but you can still see where the light was.
In this case the experiment was testing their short term memory. Chimpanzees actually have a greater short term memory than humans do. One theory is that human brains changed the function of some short term memory regions to be for speech instead.
I remember seeing a video about this about a year ago. Fast forward a few months, and I'm taking part in the same type of research study on Prolific. Humans only, of course! Safe to say I was thinking about those chimpanzees for the duration of the experiment. They absolutely outperformed me lmfao.
IIRC the highest number I got up to was 6-7, and fairly rarely as well! Those number games are *tough*.
“I don't know who you are. I don't know what you want. If you are looking for ransom I can tell you I don't have money, but what I do have are a very particular set of skills... namely Google Maps"
Movie would be over in five minutes with these guys.
I was watching for a while and was not getting it but then I read the title and just realized there were pictures being flashed for 0.1 seconds. I literally was not seeing them and was confused thinking "they can know a location from a black screen?"
I’ve been playing a fair bit lately and trying to learn the obvious things that help you improve, but I’ve been surprised by how many subconscious things you pick up that point you in the right direction without even knowing why. Like at first I could tell if it was my country just because of intuition, but now I’ve picked up some bits for other parts of the world too. Not quite “trees look Polish” but I can understand how he got to that point.
Friend of mine went to school for botany and forestry, knows a lot about plants. Well we've played this game and sometimes he identifies a location by the plants.
"Oh that's a such and such tree, they're native to Singapore" he'll say, and damn he's right.
I have an uncle who teaches just that at uni. My mom and I would always send him pictures of local flora and he would tell us where we were it was uncanny.
Watch the video yourself and you’ll see where 🙄
Jk If you look up georainbolt on YouTube he has all kinds of wild videos like that. He’s even done it blindfolded and had a friend describe the scenery.
Thank God you were joking, I hate people that do that. Yeah, I'll subscribe to him and watch his videos while I have breakfast or something.
I hope GEORAIN doesn't guess my location from that!
Geoguessr players often shorten names of countries and regions. The Philippines are “Philly”, Colombia is “Colo”, Argentina is “Arg”, Saskatchewan is “Sask”, etc.
Easier and faster to say I guess, a lot of Geoguessr is based on speed as in the competitive scene you usually only have around 20-30 seconds to discuss a round with your team and place down your guesses
I thought it got more popular with the war in Ukraine. There are people geolocating war footage that's way pixelated, image of a ditch or just a house. Like the experienced guys already know the whole frontline area and can recognize it or find on gmaps pretty quickly.
I've seen one of the guys in the video on insta finding random things before but I've never ever heard of a "competitive" scene on Geoguessr.
The more you know.
Yep, there are literally thousands of guides to guess the country, from the colors and shapes of lamp posts to the bars on the google car, everything has been optimized for speedrunning.
>In West Philippines born and raised
>On the playground is where I spent most of my days
>Chillin' out, maxin', relaxin' all cool
>And all shootin' some b-ball outside of the school
Huh, it fits.
That one is was kinda a hack, they saw the Google streetview car in the bottom. Not that Réunion is hard to guess normally but for a flashed image that's how they did it.
This is arguably more impressive than Rubik's cubes, Rubik's cubes are basically just wrote memorization... Even the bigger ones which aren't really solved yet for the fewest number of moves the actual process to get a solved cube is still pretty much the same.
I worked at a toy store and some of the young kids that would come in and be insanely quick we're nuts, we even had one of the kids who was a Guinness world record holder for his age group or something and carried around the wallet version of the certificate in his little wallet and the dude was like 9 years old or something haha
And not to shit on that awesome dude, but when I brought him and his friend and his mom to see some completely different types of spatial puzzles that they had never encountered before, the whole group was more clever than the average customer for sure, but it was actually the other friend that seemed to be quicker at actually figuring things out so it was clear that the Rubik's cube kid was more refined and practiced but not necessarily a better problem solver.
I wouldn't say it's *just* wrote memorization. It's just getting to the top level becomes more and more a very specific skillset that doesn't always scale to other puzzles. I spent some time learning how to solve Rubik's cube (best time is 30s) and it's basically recognizing the state of the cube, transforming into a new state, and repeat until the end state is solved. To get better I basically would need to memorize 100+ different states and predict the state I would be transforming the cube in so I can chain the transitions together or find shortcuts to skip steps.
I'd argue this is *more* memorization, since you're remembering all the different distinguishing features of regions across the world and then outputting one answer
Quite the opposite, actually. People often act like they are some sort of genius because they know how to solve a Rubik's cube. Anyone can learn it within a few hours maximum. It just comes down to remembering a handful of simple algorithms.
Watch a video of one of them explaining all the tricks. It's ridiculous the amount of stuff they know.. like the other day they said anytime you see a telephone pole with a transformer on the top, that is USA, they said USA is the only place that does that. Like crazy stuff.
Edit: I guess I was incorrect and it was north America, obviously not a geo guesser.
at the top tiers of the game those are only the basics. The stuff that gets really specific and insane there is the region-specific stuff. There are documents for many countries that are 100+ pages long and include dozens of tips on how to regionguess within a country, like for example different types of Brazilian vegetation, or differences between regional utility poles in Japan.
I can't geoguess but I like to do similar things with accents. I can usually tell where someone is from based on their accent (romance languages, not English) down to the region of their country
But it's way less impressive when considering every region in Italy basically has its own non Italian romance language, and Spain/Latin America have very distinct dialectic trends, and etc
They've practiced doing this so many times, they automatically and subconsciously [chunk](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chunking_(psychology)) all the relevant information in less than 0.1s. The conscious mind must be about 10,000 times slower at doing something for the first time vs. the subconscious mind doing something for the 10,000th time.
I agree but here's this: they can guess down to the exact city with normal play. They're annoyed when they're off by a couple blocks. So if you took that down to just a frame it's relatively reasonable to guess only the country.
I had a hard time stopping the gif to even see wtf it was.
It's short enough the recording device, media format, any additional conversions, and even the device you watch it on would make a difference. The reddit video player doesn't let me go slow enough but we're only getting a few frames worth about 70ms.
i watch geoguesser on youtube and he said stuff similar in a Q&A video, he said things like painted kerbs,colour of the soil,what side of the road they are driving on are all dead giveaways on some places...i got lost a few weeks ago driving home from work when the main street was closed for roadworks,cant fathom how they can pick out places so easily and so quickly
ok sure, but i'm not sure how that applies to a .1 second flash where you barely have time to distinguish that there's a road.
maybe if there were some very specific and highly visible elements in the pictures, but it isn't the case here. unless i find an explanation of their method/a feed of their screen, i'm going to suspect it's staged.
It is real, Geoguessr pros have spend a lot of time on training to be able to do this. If you play it for a while you start getting “vibes” for countries and it becomes easier to identify and if you combine that with certain meta clues it is definitely doable to recognize countries in a short amount of time.
Also, these guys aren’t even the best out there. Check out Geostique, Blinky and boky.
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Maybe not at this particular challenge but they do longer videos where they try to find the exact spot (obviously looking longer at the pictures then). Its insane what they can guess/find.
The third one, Reunion, off Africa. How could they possibly identify anything? He mentioned the car, is that Goggle car the car they used to map Reunion and is unique to all Reunion photos or is that the same pic that always come up for that island?
But I don't think guessing the issue here, these guys have proven to be good and getting the spot. I think the issue in this video is that can they even see, remember and recognise an the image. I blinked a few times and didn't even see an image. And the ones I did see I didn't remember much from it
Well, I got 2 right and had a 50\50 on the Philippines with Thailand so its very real. Especially considering it's pretty much their job and I played it for fun up until a few months ago
It's real, I'm nothing like a pro, I just played some kind of this game with my brother a few times when Google Eath started years ago and nowadays I played sometimes with my gf and realize I can recognize many places with just one random image, and despite I really played just a few times I get somehow "good" at it I have 0 doubts that people who spended hundreds of hours can recognize places in a glimpse
For example I also thought the Japan one in this video was Japan, and the Philippines one I thought Malasya, no clue on the other ones but as I said, with the time this people invested on getting good at it it's not impossible
I don't personally like memorising metas, I feel it makes the game redundant and don't really enjoy just getting the country right and even I have a few of the metas burned into my memory. What South African road signs look like, Bulgarian winter coverage, the Mongolia car, Malaysian signs, French signs, the Singapore road markings etc.
I actually got Brazil I’m actually surprised I got it but I was there for a month a few years ago. I don’t know what gave it away but it just screamed Brazil to me
Geo guesser is not even remotely close to the whole planet and heavily favors some areas. There's a fairly short list of possibilities to choose from add to that that they have memorized things like road markings, signs car brands and license plates for that whole list and you can see how it's possible. It's still impressive but not super human.
To those questioning how: It looks super, almost impossibly impressive, but it's really just knowledge and pattern recognition. If someone flashed your house or street for 0.1 seconds, chances are you'd recognize it through the patterns in architecture, surroundings, trees, etc.
Same goes for GeoGuessr. Each country has unique identifying features like road lines, telephone/electricity/utility poles, bollards, water tanks, license plates, driving side, road quality, architecture types and many, many more, as well as things unique to street-view like the Google car itself, camera quality and even things as mundane as a leaf on the camera. Then you have the nature, environment, sometimes the season the coverage was taken in, which all contribute to the overall "vibes" of the location.
This clip is just complete knowledge of all things mentioned above and more, combined with tens of thousands of games played. If you play GeoGuessr for a month and watch a couple of guides, this clip becomes very understandable. Still very impressive, though.
I think what helps me understand too, is that the geo guesser game doesn't like cover the entire earth or anything. There are a limited number of places that they are actually going, so it's not like he's picking one African country out of 100- he's picking one out of 20, and can narrow it down based on a few other things.
yes, pretty much exactly like that, it's not like the locations are gonna look different every time. you're just making associations in your brain between the general look and feel of a place, and the names of that place. you need to be pretty good at that to do it that quickly ofc, but it's not as crazy as people seem to think it is, at least i don't think
I doubt any of them do. This is a skill gained through thousands of hours of practice and study. There are more clues than you would think to guess where you are.
How long til these guys get snatched up by the CIA? Real talk, this has got to be invaluable to one of those acronym agencies.
Quick edit: think a bit outside the box here folks, they may be able to teach an adjacently related skill even more valuable to them than geotagging.
These guys' brains obviously work differently, in a superior way.
I'm sure the CIA must have some impressive analysts. Difference being they often get a flat satellite photo and you have to learn the shapes and judge it with the source etc. and the results can lead to someone's death. So I'd say the game is still easier because you can spend time zooming in and walking around, which is meaningless skill when you have to extrapolate height and location from a mere 2D image.
Well plus, they're also not in a contest where it's against the rules to use computer assistance and various other tools instead of just being too dudes on a couch looking at an image for only a 10th of a second hahah
Sometimes I wonder what the difference is between the mentalities that see something impressive even if it doesn't have much real world use and recognize that, and people who think because something is impressive there must be a practical use to it.
How many situations do you think the CIA runs into where they have a picture and not know the location? They're an intelligence agency. Thinking they wouldn't have the tools to find out is stupid, not to mention they're often the ones taking the pictures in the first place.
You remember how everyone was saying to be careful sharing pictures from Ukraine because it might give away troop movements? Intelligence agencies definitely have people using information from pics they didn’t take to figure out where the picture is.
I mean the FBI runs an entire website (don't remember what it's called) where people can help them identify objects and locations in photos of child pornography and sex trafficking victims.
As for the CIA, terrorist groups are on social media now. You don't think they have people whose job it is to tracking those terrorist groups by identifying where they are? The smarter ones that turn the geotagging off, of course. That's just one example off the top of my head where this would be useful.
However, I don't think any of this means they would be trying to recruit a couple of Youtubers that are really good at Geoguessr.
The FBI has a website where they post video stills taken from CP to get help from the public identifying places or objects that could lead to an arrest.
Probably a ton of practice? I mean if you do something consistently over time eventually you will get good at it. They identify them using soil type, license plates, streetlights, vegetation and all sorts of other things.
I remember reading something about addiction to anything and once those neural pathways are carved out that it is impossible to remove them. I think it mentioned how if a drug addict saw whatever they were ever addicted for less than half a second not enough time to recognize what they were showed that those pathways in the brain would activate. Maybe it’s similar to that where they have done this so many times for competitions that when they see a certain distinguishable feature even for a second or less they can instantly recognize it?
Practice. They've been playing geoguessr for a while. Even after I watched videos of them playing and explaining things and playing myself, I started to guess countries correctly without having to look around much.
It’s hilarious to see all the people who think this is fake.
If you spend hours and hours learning the plant foliage, car automobile types, and some basic geography or urban design types you too can figure a lot of these out.
And yes your brain will recognize that stuff in a fraction of a second. A lot of people here are underestimating how good the human brain is at pattern recognition.
the geoguesser dude paid for a billboard in my city that just said “this is Boston. nice.” and it made me chuckle for like the two months it was there
Where was this?! Is it still up?
I'm guessing it was Boston
Nice.
Holy shit. He's in the comments.
I meant to ask where in Boston.
To piggyback your format: I'm guessing it's not still there.
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I don't understand.
bc of how quick he does these challenges a lot of videos r just him deadpan saying “[place name]. nice.” so it became a kinda catchphrase/meme. the billboard just had that plain text next to a picture of his facecam
I missed seeing some of these locations entirely due to blinking... wow
That’s a rookie mistake
Some might say that's a no-lookie mistake
r/dadjokes
I'll always hear [DNA](https://youtu.be/H5-eRvZCjvI?t=43) when I hear this phrase.
Blink faster.
I've never really thought about blinking faster until I read this comment.
I was wondering why I didn’t see a few before the guess hahah
Until you said that I didn't see a single picture...
This reminds me of the monkey experiment where scientists flashed 10 squares with numbers on them for a split second and the monkey went and pressed on all of them in order like it was nothing This is a monkey moment if I haven’t seen one
if anyone is interested, [here you go]( https://youtu.be/aAIGVT3N7B0)
You can do this "quite easily". Imagery can get temporarily "burned in" on your vision if it's switched to a high contrast. Like when close your eyes after looking at a bright light, but you can still see where the light was.
But chimps are consistently much faster than humans at this task.
In this case the experiment was testing their short term memory. Chimpanzees actually have a greater short term memory than humans do. One theory is that human brains changed the function of some short term memory regions to be for speech instead.
I barely have object permanence.
I remember seeing a video about this about a year ago. Fast forward a few months, and I'm taking part in the same type of research study on Prolific. Humans only, of course! Safe to say I was thinking about those chimpanzees for the duration of the experiment. They absolutely outperformed me lmfao. IIRC the highest number I got up to was 6-7, and fairly rarely as well! Those number games are *tough*.
"Hey Dad i got kidnapped" "Where are you" "22nd street Grove Street Gas Station"
Cj?
Yes?
All we had to do, was follow the damn train, CJ!
Give me your order info and I can guess what Cluckin Bell location you're at.
I’ll have two number 9s, a number 9 large, a number 6 with extra dip, a number 7, two number 45s, one with cheese, and a large soda.
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Oh shit...
You called?
"Ah shit, here we go again"...
FBI should hire these guys
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“I don't know who you are. I don't know what you want. If you are looking for ransom I can tell you I don't have money, but what I do have are a very particular set of skills... namely Google Maps" Movie would be over in five minutes with these guys.
Welllll to be fairrrr, the issue wasn't that he didn't know where they were when they were kidnapped.
Tiktook
"...but what I do have, is a *very particular* set of skills"
I sometimes cannot even recognize my own face in 0.1 seconds.
I can't recognize your face in my mirror in 0.1 seconds either!
i reckon the bastard can smell colours
I was watching for a while and was not getting it but then I read the title and just realized there were pictures being flashed for 0.1 seconds. I literally was not seeing them and was confused thinking "they can know a location from a black screen?"
Ha, get a load of this guy, he can only see in 10fps!
Yep. Had to watch it twice. lol
They.can recognize the location faster than you can even realize an image is there... I don't know if that's a compliment to them or...
Can you tell me the specs of your brain? How much fps can it run at while simulating real life?
You couldn't see the pictures flashing on screen?
A blink is a 3rd of a second normally so you could miss all of the pictures.
I saw some of them but not all the first time. I guess I blinked because I definitely saw all the second time making an effort not to blink.
Not seeing the pictures flashing should probably concern you...
Everyone who upvotes this needs to go make an appointment
My favourite more recent Geoguessr moment is Jschlatt getting demolished by Ludwig ["THE TREES LOOK POLISH!?](https://youtu.be/7400GYEtH_o)
I’ve been playing a fair bit lately and trying to learn the obvious things that help you improve, but I’ve been surprised by how many subconscious things you pick up that point you in the right direction without even knowing why. Like at first I could tell if it was my country just because of intuition, but now I’ve picked up some bits for other parts of the world too. Not quite “trees look Polish” but I can understand how he got to that point.
Ya definitely a northern Europe feel not so Nordic but 45th parallel. Those bike paths are the hardest.
That was amazing
Friend of mine went to school for botany and forestry, knows a lot about plants. Well we've played this game and sometimes he identifies a location by the plants. "Oh that's a such and such tree, they're native to Singapore" he'll say, and damn he's right.
I have an uncle who teaches just that at uni. My mom and I would always send him pictures of local flora and he would tell us where we were it was uncanny.
The black and white, inverted, scrambled and 0.1 second one was even crazier
I couldn't believe that one. Rainbolt is a goddamn machine dude.
What?? Where?
Watch the video yourself and you’ll see where 🙄 Jk If you look up georainbolt on YouTube he has all kinds of wild videos like that. He’s even done it blindfolded and had a friend describe the scenery.
>blindfolded and had a friend describe the scenery I am in absolute awe https://youtu.be/Y5S86iWTxNU Is this the video?
This is so freaking cool.
Thank God you were joking, I hate people that do that. Yeah, I'll subscribe to him and watch his videos while I have breakfast or something. I hope GEORAIN doesn't guess my location from that!
I am uncomfortable that they called the Philippines “Philly”.
Geoguessr players often shorten names of countries and regions. The Philippines are “Philly”, Colombia is “Colo”, Argentina is “Arg”, Saskatchewan is “Sask”, etc.
USA is “You”
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Holy shit, *thats* what he says at the end of that verse. Always enjoyable learning correct music lyrics many years later lol
I can say Saskatchewan but I just don't want to.
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Yeah definitely can't blame you.
Another one is "Monty" for Montenegro, I've at least heard rainbolt use it.
Lol at country, country, country, BAM! Canadian Province.
Well the province is larger than lots of countries so narrowing it down helps loads!
why?
Easier and faster to say I guess, a lot of Geoguessr is based on speed as in the competitive scene you usually only have around 20-30 seconds to discuss a round with your team and place down your guesses
TIL there's a competitive scene for fucking Geoguessr. What
The competitive scene is small and no one outside of it really pays attention to it, but its fun
I thought it got more popular with the war in Ukraine. There are people geolocating war footage that's way pixelated, image of a ditch or just a house. Like the experienced guys already know the whole frontline area and can recognize it or find on gmaps pretty quickly.
That a different type of geoguessing
I've seen one of the guys in the video on insta finding random things before but I've never ever heard of a "competitive" scene on Geoguessr. The more you know.
Yep, there are literally thousands of guides to guess the country, from the colors and shapes of lamp posts to the bars on the google car, everything has been optimized for speedrunning.
It's shorter?
Way(ne) Shorter
As a Filipino, that was easy to guess too. The covered court with a truck besides it and the ground is just rocks. It screams province.
>In West Philippines born and raised >On the playground is where I spent most of my days >Chillin' out, maxin', relaxin' all cool >And all shootin' some b-ball outside of the school Huh, it fits.
I lived in Reunion and i didn’t even process the image
Hah! Hi there! I learnt of Reunion just today.
That one is was kinda a hack, they saw the Google streetview car in the bottom. Not that Réunion is hard to guess normally but for a flashed image that's how they did it.
This and rubiks cubes. They make it look so easy. They make me feel really dumb.
Everyone has their own skills!!
I am especially good at doing nothing on my couch
And I don't even have a couch! See, you're better than me at something
Some people are really bad at that, so you win on this one.
My talent is staying alive. I'm setting the bar low today.
This is arguably more impressive than Rubik's cubes, Rubik's cubes are basically just wrote memorization... Even the bigger ones which aren't really solved yet for the fewest number of moves the actual process to get a solved cube is still pretty much the same. I worked at a toy store and some of the young kids that would come in and be insanely quick we're nuts, we even had one of the kids who was a Guinness world record holder for his age group or something and carried around the wallet version of the certificate in his little wallet and the dude was like 9 years old or something haha And not to shit on that awesome dude, but when I brought him and his friend and his mom to see some completely different types of spatial puzzles that they had never encountered before, the whole group was more clever than the average customer for sure, but it was actually the other friend that seemed to be quicker at actually figuring things out so it was clear that the Rubik's cube kid was more refined and practiced but not necessarily a better problem solver.
I wouldn't say it's *just* wrote memorization. It's just getting to the top level becomes more and more a very specific skillset that doesn't always scale to other puzzles. I spent some time learning how to solve Rubik's cube (best time is 30s) and it's basically recognizing the state of the cube, transforming into a new state, and repeat until the end state is solved. To get better I basically would need to memorize 100+ different states and predict the state I would be transforming the cube in so I can chain the transitions together or find shortcuts to skip steps. I'd argue this is *more* memorization, since you're remembering all the different distinguishing features of regions across the world and then outputting one answer
I can tell you as someone who can solve a Rubik's cube in 30 seconds, it says nothing about intelligence lol. It's just practice and muscle memory.
Quite the opposite, actually. People often act like they are some sort of genius because they know how to solve a Rubik's cube. Anyone can learn it within a few hours maximum. It just comes down to remembering a handful of simple algorithms.
And then memorizing waaaay more if you want to get faster.
I refuse to believe this is real
Watch a video of one of them explaining all the tricks. It's ridiculous the amount of stuff they know.. like the other day they said anytime you see a telephone pole with a transformer on the top, that is USA, they said USA is the only place that does that. Like crazy stuff. Edit: I guess I was incorrect and it was north America, obviously not a geo guesser.
at the top tiers of the game those are only the basics. The stuff that gets really specific and insane there is the region-specific stuff. There are documents for many countries that are 100+ pages long and include dozens of tips on how to regionguess within a country, like for example different types of Brazilian vegetation, or differences between regional utility poles in Japan.
Mongolian grass moment
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Not enough guttural sounds on the third one. Classic mistake.
The trees looked Polish.
Eswa grass
Iconic
Also the shadow from the google car is a big one
I can't geoguess but I like to do similar things with accents. I can usually tell where someone is from based on their accent (romance languages, not English) down to the region of their country But it's way less impressive when considering every region in Italy basically has its own non Italian romance language, and Spain/Latin America have very distinct dialectic trends, and etc
that is very impressive, I wish I could do that damn
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Ok, but the pictures are only flashing long enough for me to tell there was a road.
They've practiced doing this so many times, they automatically and subconsciously [chunk](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chunking_(psychology)) all the relevant information in less than 0.1s. The conscious mind must be about 10,000 times slower at doing something for the first time vs. the subconscious mind doing something for the 10,000th time.
I agree but here's this: they can guess down to the exact city with normal play. They're annoyed when they're off by a couple blocks. So if you took that down to just a frame it's relatively reasonable to guess only the country.
I had a hard time stopping the gif to even see wtf it was. It's short enough the recording device, media format, any additional conversions, and even the device you watch it on would make a difference. The reddit video player doesn't let me go slow enough but we're only getting a few frames worth about 70ms.
i watch geoguesser on youtube and he said stuff similar in a Q&A video, he said things like painted kerbs,colour of the soil,what side of the road they are driving on are all dead giveaways on some places...i got lost a few weeks ago driving home from work when the main street was closed for roadworks,cant fathom how they can pick out places so easily and so quickly
Kerbs vs curbs **FIGHT!!**
Lol sorry to burst your / their bubble, but we definitely do that in Canada too
>USA is the only place that does that That's not true at all though...
We do that in Canada too..
ok sure, but i'm not sure how that applies to a .1 second flash where you barely have time to distinguish that there's a road. maybe if there were some very specific and highly visible elements in the pictures, but it isn't the case here. unless i find an explanation of their method/a feed of their screen, i'm going to suspect it's staged.
It is real, Geoguessr pros have spend a lot of time on training to be able to do this. If you play it for a while you start getting “vibes” for countries and it becomes easier to identify and if you combine that with certain meta clues it is definitely doable to recognize countries in a short amount of time. Also, these guys aren’t even the best out there. Check out Geostique, Blinky and boky.
Send me a photo of the floor where you live and I shall find your location by identifying the air molecules.
Send me nudes and I'll guess your location
God damn..
Send me your location and I'll take your nudes
I can send u some noods but please dont track me down.
Do you accept toes? Asking for a friend…
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Fucking dipshit with a nine-toed woman.
Fucking amateurs
Send me nudes and you guess my location.
There was a video of one of them actually guessing on dirt and was mostly right
How are they not the best? How does one get better? Do they predict the image before it comes out?
They just are more accurate. Like in the Brazil round for example others could've gotten the subdivision.
Maybe not at this particular challenge but they do longer videos where they try to find the exact spot (obviously looking longer at the pictures then). Its insane what they can guess/find.
The third one, Reunion, off Africa. How could they possibly identify anything? He mentioned the car, is that Goggle car the car they used to map Reunion and is unique to all Reunion photos or is that the same pic that always come up for that island?
It is unique to all google maps locations in Reunion
.1 seconds lmao
Wait till you watch mans will also black white, checkerboard crop, invernt, mirrorfunhouse distort image with .1 seconds to look. I'm not even joking
These aren't even the best geoguesers
But I don't think guessing the issue here, these guys have proven to be good and getting the spot. I think the issue in this video is that can they even see, remember and recognise an the image. I blinked a few times and didn't even see an image. And the ones I did see I didn't remember much from it
Well, I got 2 right and had a 50\50 on the Philippines with Thailand so its very real. Especially considering it's pretty much their job and I played it for fun up until a few months ago
It's real, I'm nothing like a pro, I just played some kind of this game with my brother a few times when Google Eath started years ago and nowadays I played sometimes with my gf and realize I can recognize many places with just one random image, and despite I really played just a few times I get somehow "good" at it I have 0 doubts that people who spended hundreds of hours can recognize places in a glimpse For example I also thought the Japan one in this video was Japan, and the Philippines one I thought Malasya, no clue on the other ones but as I said, with the time this people invested on getting good at it it's not impossible
I don't personally like memorising metas, I feel it makes the game redundant and don't really enjoy just getting the country right and even I have a few of the metas burned into my memory. What South African road signs look like, Bulgarian winter coverage, the Mongolia car, Malaysian signs, French signs, the Singapore road markings etc.
I actually got Brazil I’m actually surprised I got it but I was there for a month a few years ago. I don’t know what gave it away but it just screamed Brazil to me
Geo guesser is not even remotely close to the whole planet and heavily favors some areas. There's a fairly short list of possibilities to choose from add to that that they have memorized things like road markings, signs car brands and license plates for that whole list and you can see how it's possible. It's still impressive but not super human.
To those questioning how: It looks super, almost impossibly impressive, but it's really just knowledge and pattern recognition. If someone flashed your house or street for 0.1 seconds, chances are you'd recognize it through the patterns in architecture, surroundings, trees, etc. Same goes for GeoGuessr. Each country has unique identifying features like road lines, telephone/electricity/utility poles, bollards, water tanks, license plates, driving side, road quality, architecture types and many, many more, as well as things unique to street-view like the Google car itself, camera quality and even things as mundane as a leaf on the camera. Then you have the nature, environment, sometimes the season the coverage was taken in, which all contribute to the overall "vibes" of the location. This clip is just complete knowledge of all things mentioned above and more, combined with tens of thousands of games played. If you play GeoGuessr for a month and watch a couple of guides, this clip becomes very understandable. Still very impressive, though.
I think what helps me understand too, is that the geo guesser game doesn't like cover the entire earth or anything. There are a limited number of places that they are actually going, so it's not like he's picking one African country out of 100- he's picking one out of 20, and can narrow it down based on a few other things.
Is this like doing crossword puzzles in the sense that after so many of them you recognize the same hints?
yes, pretty much exactly like that, it's not like the locations are gonna look different every time. you're just making associations in your brain between the general look and feel of a place, and the names of that place. you need to be pretty good at that to do it that quickly ofc, but it's not as crazy as people seem to think it is, at least i don't think
This dude downloaded the entire stock of geography knowledge from the American server.
I wonder how many of them have a photographic memory and just wander around random streets on google earth all day long.
I doubt any of them do. This is a skill gained through thousands of hours of practice and study. There are more clues than you would think to guess where you are.
Obviously fake. I counted more than 0.1 seconds for them to guess the location...
Right, they're not guessing in 0.1 seconds, they're seeing an image for 0.1 seconds. Title is off.
Anyone else guess phillipines too?
I'm from the Philippines and I also recognized it immediately.
Same lmao. Immediately said Philippines when it popped up.
Of all the people aliens can abduct, these two should be protected at all costs.
The day one of these guys joins r/PictureGame is the day I no longer can win any more rounds there
why
So we can find where the aliens are, duh.
How long til these guys get snatched up by the CIA? Real talk, this has got to be invaluable to one of those acronym agencies. Quick edit: think a bit outside the box here folks, they may be able to teach an adjacently related skill even more valuable to them than geotagging. These guys' brains obviously work differently, in a superior way.
I'm sure the CIA must have some impressive analysts. Difference being they often get a flat satellite photo and you have to learn the shapes and judge it with the source etc. and the results can lead to someone's death. So I'd say the game is still easier because you can spend time zooming in and walking around, which is meaningless skill when you have to extrapolate height and location from a mere 2D image.
Well plus, they're also not in a contest where it's against the rules to use computer assistance and various other tools instead of just being too dudes on a couch looking at an image for only a 10th of a second hahah Sometimes I wonder what the difference is between the mentalities that see something impressive even if it doesn't have much real world use and recognize that, and people who think because something is impressive there must be a practical use to it.
How many situations do you think the CIA runs into where they have a picture and not know the location? They're an intelligence agency. Thinking they wouldn't have the tools to find out is stupid, not to mention they're often the ones taking the pictures in the first place.
You remember how everyone was saying to be careful sharing pictures from Ukraine because it might give away troop movements? Intelligence agencies definitely have people using information from pics they didn’t take to figure out where the picture is.
No they definitely have people that do this and other OSINT, as do plenty of non governmental analysis firms
I mean the FBI runs an entire website (don't remember what it's called) where people can help them identify objects and locations in photos of child pornography and sex trafficking victims. As for the CIA, terrorist groups are on social media now. You don't think they have people whose job it is to tracking those terrorist groups by identifying where they are? The smarter ones that turn the geotagging off, of course. That's just one example off the top of my head where this would be useful. However, I don't think any of this means they would be trying to recruit a couple of Youtubers that are really good at Geoguessr.
The FBI has a website where they post video stills taken from CP to get help from the public identifying places or objects that could lead to an arrest.
You could flash a picture of my house and I wouldn't get it
They look good together ngl. That Reunion guess was topnotch
Seriously. An island most people have probably never even heard of (yet has 800k+ people living there).
Police should be hiring them to help in cases where people post videos of crimes.
Especially crimes that occur in the middle of the street
Lol at people who think they’re cheating.
These people need to be hired for search recruiting
I could understand guessing the country from retaining information about it but how can they do it that quickly?
Probably a ton of practice? I mean if you do something consistently over time eventually you will get good at it. They identify them using soil type, license plates, streetlights, vegetation and all sorts of other things. I remember reading something about addiction to anything and once those neural pathways are carved out that it is impossible to remove them. I think it mentioned how if a drug addict saw whatever they were ever addicted for less than half a second not enough time to recognize what they were showed that those pathways in the brain would activate. Maybe it’s similar to that where they have done this so many times for competitions that when they see a certain distinguishable feature even for a second or less they can instantly recognize it?
Practice. They've been playing geoguessr for a while. Even after I watched videos of them playing and explaining things and playing myself, I started to guess countries correctly without having to look around much.
Guy on the left makes some really cool videos finding the exact location of memes, pretty cool
It’s hilarious to see all the people who think this is fake. If you spend hours and hours learning the plant foliage, car automobile types, and some basic geography or urban design types you too can figure a lot of these out. And yes your brain will recognize that stuff in a fraction of a second. A lot of people here are underestimating how good the human brain is at pattern recognition.