13 - Why Gamers Are A Better Problem Solver

Video gaming has been here for more than a decade now. They tend to cause addiction to children which is badly viewed by their parents. Gaming has been treated as a disease because of all the negative effects. But gaming isn’t all that bad, in fact it’s actually quite beneficial.  Here are some of the perks you may obtain from being a gamer; it improves your perception and reaction skills: meaning that with every game you play you’re actually sharpening your memory and improving your perception. It improves visual attention; you can’t put on your “A game” if you’re not 100 focused. With these skills gamers are already considered to be a higher caliber than the average person.

In 2011 there was a game called “fold it”,

 it was an online puzzle game about protein folding. It was created so that regular people with little to no scientific knowledge can also help tackle a scientific problem. Fold it was used to resolved the structure of an enzyme that causes an aids-like disease in monkeys. Researchers had been working on the problem for 13 years. The gamers solved it in 3 weeks. Notice the difference? A year later people were playing an astronomy game called “Planet Hunters” and they found about 40 planets that could potentially support life, all of which had been previously missed by the professional astronomers.

You see our brains are wired up to recognize patterns and gaming helps develop that ability. This is why scientists are now turning to gamers for help. Now next time you see someone playing, think twice before you call what they’re doing useless/waste of time