Stick Monkey

The monkey stands on one pillar and has to reach the next using a branch that keeps growing for as long as the button is held. Let go too early and the branch falls short of the far edge; hold too long and it stretches past the platform, which drops you just the same.

All of the difficulty therefore sits in judging distance through time, which is a stranger skill than it sounds. You are converting a length your eyes can see into a number of fractions of a second your finger must hold. There is no guide line and no readout, only a feel that sharpens through repetition.

What genuinely helps is choosing a reference point on the screen: aim for the branch tip to pass just beyond the shadow of the pillar, for instance. A fixed marker turns a distance you were guessing at into something you can check with your eyes before releasing.