Owwwwww!
Holy crap, I was playing this for like an hour while sitting on my left hand with my palm facing up and the back of my hand pressed hard into a wooden chair and now it REAAAALLLLLLLYYYYYYYYY HURTS!!!!
Anyone else get to 100 and unlock the naked lady background? Just kidding. I actually got to 49 really early on, and then kept playing and just got worse and worse after that and I still haven't unlocked 50 and I don't think I'm going to because I'm getting worse, not better.
It's also obvious from my original precision that I could have vastly surpassed 50, except that I apparently cannot control my instinct to press the spacebar as soon as the moving pole gets to the FIRST boundary pole. Rightfully I SHOULD be aiming for an imaginary pole which is positioned dead center between the 2, but some deeply embedded psychological thing forces me to hit the button right as it passes the first pole - and then maybe 10 or 15% of the time, I end up hitting the space bar just one single pixel, or maybe 2 pixels, before it crosses the first pole, instead of just a little bit after which is where I naturally seem to aim. If I could just consciously overcome that barrier, I could go way past 50, but for some reason I have to always hit the friggin' thing as soon as it passes the first boundary, damnit! And then there's the problem that I go through it so fast, the yellow boxes from the previous time and even the time before are still on the screen, and if there are enough boxes on the screen, my computer stalls for a moment and by golly, even a delay of 5 milliseconds is enough to completely mess me up. This is not a game for the impatient or trigger happy.
But it is a very good implementation. Why I like this one and not many other similar games, I don't know. I mean, this is plenty repetitive. And I got to 49 but on #50 was as usual one single pixel early, and I just can't friggin' get to 50. By all rights, I should hate it. But it's a cool game. As cool as it could be, given its premise, at least.