Are TK and Plankles Exceptions to the 10,000 Hour Rule?

[Wittgenstein]

So the 10,000 rule is....

Forty years ago, in a paper in American Scientist, Herbert Simon and William Chase drew one of the most famous conclusions in the study of expertise:

There are no instant experts in chess—certainly no instant masters or grandmasters. There appears not to be on record any case (including Bobby Fischer) where a person reached grandmaster level with less than about a decade's intense preoccupation with the game. We would estimate, very roughly, that a master has spent perhaps 10,000 to 50,000 hours staring at chess positions…

In the years that followed, an entire field within psychology grew up devoted to elaborating on Simon and Chase’s observation—and researchers, time and again, reached the same conclusion: it takes a lot of practice to be good at complex tasks. After Simon and Chase’s paper, for example, the psychologist John Hayes looked at seventy-six famous classical composers and found that, in almost every case, those composers did not create their greatest work until they had been composing for at least ten years. (The sole exceptions: Shostakovich and Paganini, who took nine years, and Erik Satie, who took eight.)

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/sportingscene/2013/08/psychology-ten-thousand-hour-rule-complexity.html

... that it takes a lot a lot of years of practice to become the best at something: natural talent+tons of practice=being top in field.

With 94, the rule may be more like 1,000-2,000 hours. But I am wondering if Plankster or TK are exceptions?

TK has to be. While he wasn't at top form when he first started doing exis (I remember playing him in the early days), he quickly became one of the best within a few months. (Plantman may be a little different bc I know he was in a league or two before he became one of the best... although I'm sure he had a pretty quick rise, too.)

Maybe NHL94 players can debunk the 10,000 hour rule?

Edited August 23, 2013 by Wittgenstein

[PlabaxV2]

Plantman also lives with an older brother who is better than anyone here. It took me 1 real league and a half to get going

[Wittgenstein]

Ok, so Planeride DQ'd himself by practicing with his supposed nhl94 savant brother (who won't leave his room because all he does is play nba 2k) and playing in a few leagues.

TK?

Edited August 23, 2013 by Wittgenstein

[minpind]

Worst paint job ever.......9,999 more hours should put me on the right track

[hokkeefan]

i don't trust anyone around here,new ips or different providers,i suspect some of these new good guys are just old members coming back under new names,there are lots of extreme 94 addicts who suddenly disappeared from nhl94.

oh and just for future reference....fu icestorm

[IceStorm70]

i don't trust anyone around here,new ips or different providers,i suspect some of these new good guys are just old members coming back under new names,there are lots of extreme 94 addicts who suddenly disappeared from nhl94.

oh and just for future reference....fu icestorm

Lolololol ok Pot

[Carse]

im the besta! *SUPER MARIO VOICE*

[PlabaxV2]

.. At losing to Freydey.