Flappy Ball

The ball falls constantly and only rises when you tap. The job is to tap in rhythm so it passes through one narrow gap after another without clipping an edge. It sounds simple until the first several attempts end within seconds.

Dying often is not a defect in this format; it is the design. When a run is very short, the cost of a mistake is correspondingly tiny. You restart immediately because there is nothing to mourn, and that loop is exactly how an afternoon disappears.

What separates people who get further is consistency of rhythm rather than speed. Panicked rapid tapping is the most common cause of hitting the ceiling. Set a beat in your head and tap to that beat every time, and you will travel considerably further than by reacting to whatever appears in front of you.