Can Video Games Make You Smarter? 

+Kitty Cat same

I tried...But of course it didn't work -_-

Same!!!

or show the video

+Kitty Cat agreed

me

do it!

Do it, you have my support.

TheGreatRandomizer22 // DarthAAO well, my teacher is a boy so..

YES

Mee

+EN9ITY MEE

I learned to read and sort of spell by playing Minecraft! An I'm one o the fastest typer & reader in my 4th grade class!!! (I have been playing minecraft since I was in kindergarden)

+Zelda Northroad whoa lol cool

+Zelda Northroad So...you're 10?

same

Same

@@generaltofu511 Well u ask me for my phone everyday so u can play geometry dash lol

My dad does more video games than my mom and my mom said that video games can be bad for my mood while my dad never did. School is the thing that’s the problem

that good

but proto!! I just wanted to say that.

ProtoMario shouldnt you be off saving princess peach?

Also them: go to your room while I think of a good comeback

Lol

hmm...... parents are disrespect

Parents: School is good. And video games are bad for your mood. Me who’s been feeling depressed cause of school and my parents and uses video games to feel better: *Confused noises*

Everything is just "D I S R E S P E C T" for them. *I breath for 1 second* My Parents: Hey! How dare you breath infront of us?! You're very Disrespectful! Ofcourse I'm just kidding.

That's a day for me

Radu's Vlog I'm not the only one

Go do something with your life

I’m usually in the 50-100 catagory

same here

lol

3 hours

Wow that is my brother

@@veronicacastillo6989 he must be dumb

15 hours

like the last of us?

FountainofFire f**k yesh.

FountainofFire oh yes

I actually rarely feel an attachment to video game characters. I prefer to reserve serious bonds for real people. And yes, I am a gamer.

so true... i tell people that all the time... you get more attached to character because for the majority of the game you are that character and as they work their way through their story you are right there with them rooting them on, feeling their pain, or happiness... more so then just watching actors portray a character on TV. Zacks death even tho you know its bound to happen, that lead up to that point is so epic then when he falls to the ground and the cutscene plays you cant help but get all emotional...

and then there are moments where you're like, "IT WAS THAT EASY?! WHY DIDN'T I DO THAT BEFORE!?!" XD

RootBeerGamer I grew up thinking that boobs were triangular XD jk

disklosr ok. thats good

When I was in second grade, I played Legend of Zelda all the time and like you, there were no guides for it (probably because no one plays Legend of Zelda). When I beat a dungeon, I would get so excited! One time, I stopped playing for a month because I was raging, came back to it and beat it! I was so happy. I am still stuck in a dungeon in Legend of Zelda to this day. Help.

Blazingshade Let's Play I'm a fan of zelda series but never layed the original one

no not really... lol :D

+imStorm3r me

+imStorm3r I learned English from videogames,movies,cartoons,books and videos.

Me when I didn't play videogames I got like A- Lol,when I play videogames,I just got A+

+imStorm3r Same here.. My native language is French, and when I was little I didn't have any fucks to give about not understanding a language, so I learned English from videogames.

I'm from the best English speaking country in the world where the native language is not English. Even so, I learnt more English from video games and RU-vid then the English class.

Kamiel De Koning and what country is that

@Finder Outer LMAO STAVSHGAJA

i cry in april r/whoosh

English is my first language, so video games didn’t really teach me English, but they’ve taught me to improve the English I already know.

How

Hahaha. For me the prob is I'm the mom playing video games all the time. Well I guess it's not really a problem because I find video games really do help with stress. Nothing like playing cod blacks ops 2 to take the stress of kids yelling about crap all day.

naturegirl2110 ok...

See this book: www.amazon.com/Dont-Bother-Me-Mom-Im-Learning/dp/1557788588

We can learn here that kids these days wont buy drugs anymore but buying a pc gaming.

roblox also made me a fast typer

ye i was always the fastest typer :D i dont even type efficiently.

same

Mrs. Q SAMMMMEEE

Mrs. Q minecraft made me a faster typer too

Destroyer Cam more forza horizon

Honestly CoD isn’t that skill based. It has a far lower skill ceiling compared to games like csgo, tf2 and quake

Cod aw orr?

All about fortnite now mate

True

thats exactly what i did

i did that

Why do you guys care so much, our parents don't care

cha0s because we don’t want our parents to be delusional, unlike you

When it comes to these types of videos

ikr

Lmao😂

sploot splat Haha sameee!

Lol

Mass Effect is my favorite example

Puzzle and strategy games exist

Same! I’m great at spelling especially I play Fire Emblem games which opened me to horizons with my vocabulary.

Actually computer game motivate me to learning how to operate PC. I'm born in 1980s. In my teenage, there are not so many people know how to do that.

Right on, my mom JUST told me that videogames have no benefits. **shows her this video**

CRAZYViolence Moto I bet she'd be friggin confused

CRAZYViolence Moto OH YEAH

I learned english in minecraft lol.

Gaming Troll You have no idea my friend/ possible enemy.

she aint wrong doe

I wish this was true

Hans so true

HoanTraker11 im working on it bro :)

Hans me be like 8-11 hrs XD

Crystal ze bloxiar Me no longer like that bro :D

Crystal ze bloxiar wow me 8-16 XD

yup

Assassin's Creed gave me eagle vision.

Bo3 gave me Vision Pulse

Grand theft auto gave me a hospital bill...

+JuanTon What!?!

Play Flappy Bird and say that again

And a hatred on demon princes

School*

Dark Souls caused depression yes, but not anxiety. You know when someone will attack you, depression comes because of how dark and bleak the world's atmosphere instills in your chest and head except DS3, which was just a hard action game with no emotional movement at all.

WELL. At least that depression and anxiety is on a GAME and not LIFE.

Me: hmmm sure...

Actually, yes, they can, if you don't stare the screens way too close or too long..for example, FPS

Same 😂

Same

i played 4 hours a day

Rip life

I play 22 hours a day...

...Which is completely off...

Haha same.

Einstein taught me the definition of insanity

not in Blood Dragon

Skyrim taught me the language of the dragons

Very pretty really

It's already happened... I know it's sad D:

+Muffin I'm pretty sure we won't devolve from console gaming to arcade gaming.

Devin Schug What i'm saying is that since Call of Duty will start to be so old and outdated it will feel like pacman now. If you get what i'm trying to say.

+Melee Huijbens pacman might be better than COD but that game will not make you smarter than playing COD or any other game that has multiplayer mode. I mean you can play CS, battlefield, Halo etc if you don't like COD. All of them will make you smarter than playing pacman.

Not funny

@@cha0s725 didn't laugh

Cherry Pepsi lol btw @nothing if you’re reading this no offense 😂👌

Actually I laughed

I play 21 hours per week lmao

lolz .. Xd

XD

surgeon simulator players should be though right?

what?

jakob giffen Yep LightningSnipers It's a joke

lmao

minmin639 I'M CONFUSED!

It does not. Gamers have a much stronger tendancy to belive they are alert when they are actually not.

***** You should make a new habit of taking a dozen extra extra seconds considering that what anyone says - no matter how strange it sounds to you - might be true.

Unless you are an mlg 360 faze no scoper

Ifkr, when parents do everything to keep you away from fucking games when they don't even do proper research about this

Let your parents watch this.

Oh yes

Yep, i was thinking the same exact thing! LMAO

Problem solving/arguing covincing

Sam same! (:

yep, the best way to convince your mom that video games are guuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuud

I am going to rub this video all up in my parents face.

Same and I'm on a phone XD

+Jeffry Maiato "if you can't see that wtf is wrong with u lol" First of all, you said spelled "you" correctly but then decided you want to be a moron. Secondly, if I was born with worse vision than someone else that doesn't mean I should be compared to a lunatic.

Jeffry Maiato its okay matey... we all make mistakes just like the few grammar mistakes in this comment :)

Who else came back to 2:18 to see what Fade was talking about? PS: I could read it 😉👍🏻

it was easy

Lockstin & Gnoggin more like 5-10 hours a day like me

I know right?

I wasnt expecting you here

True but you can improve those quickly and in a more easily applicable way Dodgeball - Reaction time, Study religion and philosophers - life lessons Practice writing stories and reading - improved my vocabulary Playing sports - strategy Proper self motivation everyday learning how to have internal drive - Courage, determination and will power. The problem is when these games are taken away will you be able to compete with someone in real life in terms of reaction time who practices in real life vs you who practices in a game. The answer is likely no also many parents dream is for their childs to be successful and nearly all of the things above as alternatives correlate with higher income and better life outcomes than gaming: millionaires read more than average people, millionaires spend less time on devices and social media, millionaires spend more time playing sports. Also due to evolution the skills you don't use decay over time which of course causes concern for parents as children develop imaginary skills in games instead of real life applicable ones that will help them in life. This isn't meant to throw you of gaming I think it's wonderful just trying to explain the other side of the coin.

@@unnamed7158 playing video games can improve those things as good, fast, and applicable way.. It's subjective, and no, wrong..without video games, learning those wouldn't be as fun & enjoyable, and even some of the things you've mentioned, like math, school, etc are actually more frustating than entertaining, lol, thus, make you much slower at learning..but in video games, internet, etc, learning those can be fun & entertaining. Video games can improve your reaction time as quick as it..and you wouldn't get physical injuries, and they're leagues ahead in terms of variation..dodgeball is just about ball, while video games vary differently. Life lessons could also be achieved through playing games, and even better..again, some people find it not as entertaining & exciting as playing games, for example, in games, you're experiencing the stories in the games. What about people who don't know how to make stories then? Or people who doesn't like reading? Yes, you can, but playing video games can also improve it as good & fast..and it's much more fun & enjoyable, while at the same time learning things like vocabulary Strategy & sport games exist But again, it's subjective..and yes, playing video games can make you better at strategy as good as sports, you wouldn't get physical injuries, traumatic brain injuries, etc, and they're much more varied, not just about balls. Who said that you can't get motivations from games? Again, you're just talking nonsense. It's subjective, but yes you can..so your answer is likely no. Who said that you can't be successful as a gamer or by playing video games as one of the ways? And again, that's subjective, but yes video games can also come with income as good and life outcomes..yes, there are countless of examples of gamers, for example gaming RU-vidrs who live a happy life, which debunks your nonsense claim. Not all millionaires read more than average people Not all millionaires spend less time on devices Not all millionaires spend more time playing sports You're just generalizing people, m8. And do you think there aren't millionaire gamers? Yes there are, just a quick search and you'll find them. wdym by due to evolution the skills you don't use decay over time? That has nothing to do with this. Video games literally have tons of real life based skills..realism exists in even the most fantastious game. So your comment makes no sense Uh, yes? Playing video games can improve real life skills that would help us better in life, such as cognitive skills, and many more. But unfortunately, none of the things you've said was true.

Good one

Xdddddd

+Togashi Yuuta Ya good one

💶

+Togashi Yuuta *facepalm*

True af lol

Yea I'm an rookie yay :)

30 hours at bare minimum to consider yourself a full on gamer (2 hours less than 4 hours a day)

I’m playing like 5-6 hours a night

I AM GRIF I usually play about 13 hours a day when I dont have school.The longest ive played is only 18 hours tho.Ig I'm a rookie.

sup

I saw u everywhere bleach do u teleport

Yoogle HD yeah

trUE

Loaf Of Bread There’s more than one of them

Pfft, 15 hours every day my dude.

about 18 hours a day, im completely distanced from society

Joshua Sullins Same Lol

20 years my dude

48 hours a day. Lets go.

Augustine Uzochukwu XD

Augustine Uzochukwu Never heard of that server...

***** Doesnt mean there isnt boi

+Augustine Uzochukwu I thought you meant overpriced for DLCs, never respawn after death, if you cheat for money/xp you get banned for living, and the rich devs who say they're MLG, empowers everything we use/touch.

Philip Ottey Yup. You hit the spot

SAME

Kyle Braithwaite AYY ME TOO

Kyle Braithwaite

Kyle Braithwaite Lol

hey I'm doing the same right now mind sending me a link or picture of it?

ALLLRIGHTTT!!!!

crispy bacon GIVE BIRTH

DANG I need that decision making speed

@@thomasvandermolen8144 Play video games :)

True but the reason a lot of people think games are bad is because you can increase these skills without video games and much faster in a more natural way with more benefits (health / fitness / useful at jobs) for example: Maths - Ability to perceive a problem clearly and arrive at a solution has increased significantly Football - Decision making speed has increased Art - Attention to detail Dodgeball - Reaction speed Consider too that the skills you choose to develop may in isolation be useless in real life (e.g. fast reaction time but obese and slow) or not be easily applied to any job you do in the future. There are also tradeoffs spending all your time in front of a screen e.g fitness levels, myopia and bad eye sight and so on... this leads many people to see it as a waste of time when you could probably just work harder in school (Maths / Art) and exercise (Football / Dodgeball) and get the exact same results in less time with positive side effects instead of negative. Not to say games aren't amazing and very fun but just my perspective.

@@unnamed7158 a lot? More like a few people. Probably, but it's subjective, and no, wrong..without video games, learning those wouldn't be as fun & enjoyable, and even some of the things you've mentioned, like math, school, etc are actually more frustating than entertaining, lol, thus, make you much slower at learning..but in video games, internet, etc, learning those can be fun & entertaining. Also, pls explain what makes you think video games aren't as natural as footballs, maths, etc? Who said that video games can't give you health benefits, fitness, etc? The "video games only have bad effects" is just a plain myth, and has been debunked by a lot of people..btw, in fact, many people learned about things through video games, youtube, etc much more than in schools. Math video games exist..math itself for a lot of people is actually more frustating than entertaining. You can also learn problem-solving in video games effectively without being frustated. Video games about football exist..btw, you act that footballs don't have bad effects, lol..their bad effects can actually be way worse, for example, extreme physical injuries. Video games is a form of art So, you think dodgeballs don't have bad effects? If video games give you bad effects such as eye problems, then dodgeballs can also give you physical injuries, lol. Both have their own pros and cons..again, video games can also make you better at reaction speed as good as them, and they're not just about balls, since video games vary differently. Wdym in isolation? Lol, what makes you think playing video games requires you to be in isolation? Also, playing video games DON'T automatically make you obese or fat, as long as you still do fitness. Why? Tell me the reason..you probably just making up things. Yes, because spending all your time doing nothing in front of a screen is basically the same as having fun, learning cognitive skills, problem-solving, better reaction speed, learning things through them, for example, languages, animals, etc, reducing stress, improving brain & mental health, and many more. Also, everything has its own pros and cons, not only video games..so, you're being inconsistent here, for example, football can lead into physical injuries, concussions, traumatic brain injuries, etc..math, for a lot of people, is much more frustating than entertaining, so they would actually be more stressful rather than a way to learn. schools are mostly about grades & passing, not learning..in fact, i learned things much more through video games, movies, RU-vid, google, etc than in schools, lol..schools are actually frustating & stressful. Sure, you can work harder in them, but again, it would just be more stressful & depressing..while in video games, movies, internet, etc, you can learn without worrying about depression and stuff, and you don't need to work as hard. Again, math video games exist..but it's not the only genre that you can learn about problem-solving, most of other genre of video games can make you better at it. Lol, who said that footballs don't have bad benefits? Like i said before, everything has its own pros and cons, not just video games..if video games can lead to eye problems, then football actually can lead to physical injuries, high rates of concussions, traumatic brain injuries, etc. "less time", that's subjective..you can get the exact same results by playing video games, but with much more varied things, while football, dodgeball, etc are just about balls, while video games vary differently. Lmao, are you joking or what? You think video games only have bad effects and don't have positive effects? Lol, this video and the entire comment section prove the other way around..again, playing video games can lead to numerous positive effects, such as cognitive skills, improving mental & brain health, problem-solving, learning things such as languages, animals, countries, etc, which disproves all of your claims. Yes, that's just your perspective, and your perspective is bad and you definitely should feel bad about it.

@Just Chill ?

Rip for people who disliked this comment

same xD

Roast Chicken You want to beat who? You want to beat your wife?

skx132 same

Even a bit of other vocabulary on other languages like japanese and I also learned a bit of italian in assassins creed 2.

i don't think roblox will teach you much

Aleksandar Popovic Instead of "I am age", use "I am 10 (11) years old" lol. I doubt roblox don't teach english that much

yeah me too.its because when NPCs gives you a quest you listen and try to find out what they want hence you try to understand what they try to say.I say english teachers use videogames to teach people English.

Bruh even I couldn't figure that out without playing RE 7

Wdym?

Late Night Soup Surely you need...

Listen to that nuclear girl song while avoiding every single raindrop xD

+Hyper Vanilo Yup. Most games nowadays drop the f bomb every 5 words.

Asapscience, it actually helps me get smarter

NASA even uses video game tech to use robots and robotic arms.

Play less please :)

I cant i am to addicted :'(

Lol I'm with you, but over time I've lost interest in games. They're still fun, but I ended up playing them less and less as I got older. That might happen to you as well. Happy gaming

Nope nothing works

I am to addicted to games so i am home and playing

Hecc yeah!!!

Ubisoft is from fillipino?

Same!

Wow! I hope luck for you!

Same I learned English from video games and youtube too

Same I'm Dutch and now I'm even learning German and Spanish with that.

CraftedWizardGirl wow nice!

Punit Khanolkar Same

Punit Khanolkar sure

How about assasins creed...

Same

Wouldn't csgo give you one hell of a reaction time?

Figured all that on your own Sherlock ??

Weekend Randomizer well not every parent

Weekend Randomizer exactly lmao

If so I nead a Spanish versions

Weekend Randomizer mine will ground me

Weekend Randomizer yep

ikr lol

R U SERIOUS?

AWESOME

+Gmd_Rickson It's true xD

+Frootloopstoucan ur so lucky!!!!

We have one at my school in New Zealand for maths

Until you realize that everyone has to chip in to run the society to maintain modern life.

i plau 9 every day and evry day mom and dad angry

my mom and dad to

Getting addictive is very bad man! You need to shrink it to 3 hours

eh no

who care lets get addicted and when we marry we lower the houres to play

Dylan Mcpherson I can show you 39668585848 billions things so much I’d die

Kregg B. Too late :3

+Stationboxz depends on whether you surge on the alliance or the horde :P

you just insulted my family

It was a joke

+Kregg B. what if you were already a surgeon, and got addicted to surgeon simulator. Would you be worse at the game because it is nothing like actual surgery or would you be worse at surgery because you learn from the game?

True

I agree it's kinda funny. In his defense, Mario is Mario so we'll get the message. Also, it's harder to draw a 3D mario than a 2D pixel Mario. Good eye. I would have never noticed that.

Lol I don't play mario... (Don't hate)

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yeah right

gta helped me rob a bank ( no joke )

Agar Razor what's your license plate.

As crazy as it sounds it actually helps if u think about it

Age of Empires type of thing?

It's a rts like starcraft for the computer that probably would never be available on the button phone because it's too complex

PT0MCIO Gaming hey I'm from Poland but I live in the UK.

i'd really love to be in the UK. GET ME OUT OF THIS MADNESS CALLED POLAND damn this country gone wrong

PT0MCIO Gaming You should try playing HOI4. Its a fun historic strategy game.

videos games learn how to be STUPID DUDE

KizuJansen Villaruz then why i can say china? Im english

idk

Jevon Jackson learn more all story?

KizuJansen Villaruz He has better grammer than you degenerate.

😂😂😂😂😂

Same

SAME XD

Fifa made me have this

WaterMelonMadness Minecraft made me creative

i have glasses squad

I can read it lol

Lmao i can read this even though i need glasses squad

Daniel Lopez same

Its too smol for my gamer eyes

Per 5-10 hours

Joshua Norman lol

Yes i type slow and i typed fast with my fingers quick Lol Hehe

Max Barlow why are you going B, I said rush CAT. "Go drink bleach." Get good noob

Jake Smith, Well, it's better to have those outbursts of disagreement in a game than say, at your job or in some sort of high risk operation (Military, medical, etc.)

Jake Smith that sounds like silver one lmao

lol

Same, I need glasses but I could still read the small writing.

Gay Fox* :D

Same here.

That is how much I play... I have a life... -_-

I play like... about 3-6 hours a day, if not I’m practicing chess or school subjects cuz I’m a basement dwelling nerd :b

3-5 hours a day😍🤣😂😂😂

NEHHHHH

I play like 3-8 hours 💀💀💀

yes

oh yes I will

gave me glasses...

that's why summer vacation exist BBBOOOOOOYYYYY!

im not sure 2 and a half months of summer vacation is enough to match up to the 6 months of waking up early and learning things we will forget later on

Same lol, it's amazing

리엘Yitzrielm both

Smoke trees!

ChestRefill you take away 1 from 4

4^2=16 boom.

Artyom I thinked the same thing and I assumed Someone was going to write such comment

*because

+Joe Bob welcome to the Internet

i learned English from games

Julián Martínez lol botw I sometimes blew up the whole thing instead of solving the puzzle and solving it that way xD

Vayx Im still having trouble on the final trails for the master sword on botw

Its Med just go in safe and dont take risks. Learn how to reflect the guardian lasers and youre pretty good

Vayx i know, how to be cautious, and i know how to reflect, just the patience is what i cant stand

beat it when i was 9 and couldnt read lol its so easy to see the patterns they have in the new games now

Yeah but even single player action video games can have a positive effect, just take games like Dark Souls and Monster Hunter for example. It isn't just "attack enough and you win", you actually have to pay attention to items, environment, weakness, weapons, monsters' moves etc. And then there are games like Professor Layton and Pheonix Wright which is solely based on using your brain power.