My current best guess of what’s going on is a mix of:
It’s actually fairly cognitively demanding for me to play at my peak. When I do beat level 3 with full health, I typically feel like my brain just overclocked itself. So I think during normal play, I start out playing “medium hard”, and if I notice that I’m losing I start burning more cylinders or something. And if I start off playing quite hard, I get kinda tired by level 3.
But also, there’s a survivorship bias of “sometimes if I’ve taken damage I just give up and start over”, which may mean I’m forming an incorrect impression of how well I’d have done.
I don’t think so.
My current best guess of what’s going on is a mix of:
It’s actually fairly cognitively demanding for me to play at my peak. When I do beat level 3 with full health, I typically feel like my brain just overclocked itself. So I think during normal play, I start out playing “medium hard”, and if I notice that I’m losing I start burning more cylinders or something. And if I start off playing quite hard, I get kinda tired by level 3.
But also, there’s a survivorship bias of “sometimes if I’ve taken damage I just give up and start over”, which may mean I’m forming an incorrect impression of how well I’d have done.