i bought an eye tracker. it's super cool. and accurate. plz lmk what u think , this is my first real ever yt vid so i tried . open to all feedback : ) pro tournaments every saturday at 11:00 AM PST (twitch.tv/rainbolt)
Forget the speed at which he's able to analyze the screen, I'm more impressed he can know all the styles of utility poles, architecture, road signage, camera specs, road marking standards, and differences between grass around the world.
@@RichFresco But, like... he knows where to look. Every time. Processing and memorizing an image in .1 seconds is actually relatively easy if you know what you're looking for. Actually knowing what to look for, in the context of Geoguessr, is seemingly impossible to a non-professional, given that a million different tiny details could be vital. It's sorta like how a Grand Master's ability to recite all the moves of the game they're currently playing up until the present isn't really _that_ impressive compared to the fact that they're basically immune to blunders.
@@virago..9678 I am not discreting. Ive played chess and could memorize the whole board in a second, and in geoguessr time doesnt matter to him. The guess is based on things like colour, trees, signs, and archiecture. You dont memorize and analyze the whole picture in your mind, its the overall vibe that geoguess pros are familiar with
My favorite part of this video was at the beginning where he said "You can see where my eyes goes to help me find the answer" and then proceeds to look at the middle for .01 second of the next pictures without looking at anything else lmao absolutely insane
it makes sense, it's not like you can know where to look for the .01 second, so better to have your eyes in the middle and just use periphery to collect details
Well it kinda burns into your eyes the picture i mean so you wouldnt have to guess if you studied architechture, nature, road rules etc. as much as he has.
the time it takes for him to pin the location is actually longer than it takes for him to figure out the location. if they had a faster zooming map and a faster way to pin the location, that would decrease the time by more than half. absolutely inhuman. amazing, i'm extremely impressed by this.
If anything it is absolutely human. Humans have incredible brain capability but our bodies and tools to interact with the world are still crude compared to our minds.
You would need a lot more than 10 minutes. Zi8gZag (Z8 is his channel icon), another top player, has multiple hour long videos on learning this stuff. Even if you watched all of them, I think you'd need to do a lot of practice
6:17, i'm indonesian and it took me a good 5 seconds to realize it. and it's actually quite impressive how he could pin down the location using the architecture and that one sign. personally, everything just screams road trip to yogyakarta for me. it feels like a tol road, those red roofed houses are always near to the road/at the horizon, the plants are always banana trees, just trees, or bushes, and theirs always fields of padi/rice/anything really, and those electricity towers around the horizon are spot on from what i remember from my last road trip. props to rainbolt for guessing everything so well.
it has some kind of nostalgic feeling on that "Jalan Tol" since i also live in Central Java. That houses and gedebog everywhere is obviously a Java Toll. Meanwhile in Sumatra toll the plant and grass is dry
He would make the perfect detective with a single picture or image even if its for 0.1 second he would be able to track people's location and as we saw he puts very little time into it. If he were to actually put like 1 hour going over every single detail he would get a much much more precise location. Mad respect keep the good work up.
not necessarily unless there are signs, which anyone could look up. he's very proficient at differences between countries (signs, architecture, driving side, license plates) but within countries those are all the same, usually. notice in this video how often his guess is within the country but off the mark.
He has found the exact location and address of many places before for his viewers. But yes it was a joke I overexaggerated his abilities if he was to see only a basement of course he wouldn't be able to find where that is. @@chandlerdaugherty1947
One helpful thing to know is that Germany almost never comes up on Geoguessr because of privacy laws interfering with google streetview, so that helps narrow it down to Austria
In the 0.1 second run he managed to recognise which state of my country a guardrail belonged to. How tf do you even recognise a NSW guardrail with plenty of time, let alone in 0.1 seconds? I'd say this guy needs a hobby, but...
I swear, you can literally make a game about anything and I guarantee that there's at least 1 person who's just inhumanly cracked at it. You can kidnap this dude and leave him in the middle of nowhere and he'll still guess where he is.
If he is for real, locating a place from seeing an image for a fraction of a second, he is by a huge order of magnitude one of the most brilliant people on the planet. Way to go rainbolt, you are monumentally impressive.
My brain legit didn't even register more than "green", "blue" or "car" at most of these 0.1 second pictures. Like, how is this even physically possible?
Every time Netherlands came up, I beat him to it, and I instantly recognize any imagery with really good accuracy to be Netherlands. I:d say that England has pretty distinct architecture, Curaçao and a few more I'd be highly confident at similar speeds. I think it's very common that people instantly recognize their own country, but for 230+ countries is insane.
Well yes he is doing it in a fraction of a second, but you dont need to be brilliant, just hardworking and dedicated to the craft, still tho, rainbolt is for sure brilliant
I’ve watched a bunch of your videos but haven’t this one until today. I gotta say the eye tracking didn’t really do much 😂. You literally looked at the center and could make your guess accurately. Impressive as always, insane like everyone else says. I enjoy watching experts to things, and you sir, are on the next fking level.
This is definitely not luck, you can tell he's spent a lot of time studying the regions along with common identifying characteristics and features. Impressive level of mastery
Born and raised in Finland my whole life. Man said guessing different regions of Finland is tough for me and proceeded to make a far better guess than I ever would've. Absolute legend
What about the less recognizable ones lol, I was dead certain in my brain and shout out, dude that's the Balkans (2 seconds later "Indonesia") and Indonesia really turned out to be :D
Height of the trees tells you how south or north you are in Finland. I was just in southern parts of Finland and the trees were huge. Greetings from Lapland.
Yeah dude make more of these! Fuck this is a unique skill. I love seeing people perform skills on a level that is mysterious to me, that I just can't get how it's done. Like with my music, I like guitarists that are so skilled that I can't immediately process what they are playing, I just hear and feel the music. And I always love to witness talent that's beyond mine to the point I can't even try to imitate. But anyway, this shit is awesome, I hope you can get paid for doing this! Lol!
I wanna see this man take a mystery flight and have him guess where he ends up, I bet he’d literally sniff the air once and go “yeah so this is Romania”
That would be a waste of money since he could just detect what air particles he's inhaling in find the circumference of the equator's quantom theory while he's in the plane to find out which direction he's going and where the plane is landing.
6:34 Just clues for Indonesia, if you found that type electrical transmission (500 kV), and a in a highway, a very good chance thats in Java. as 500kV only exist in Java.
That was insanely inspiring and also very shocking. What a magnificent thing you've taken the time to learn. I love the passion and am wondering why you haven't been recruited by some agency somewhere..? I wonder what the next step would be? Naturally, I would look to learn a few other languages and perhaps the histories of as many countries as I could. Keep it up man!
I'm Mexican and my man said: "This type of structures are very common in Yucatan", by only seeing a bunch of bricks and while all the southern Mexican states have a very similar architecture, absolutely insane.
@@leo9982 do you know how google street view works? A car owned by google with cameras on it drive around and take a bunch of pictures Usually, it's only 1 google car per country, and most of the google cars are white. Peru has a black google car
A few points at 8@16 It's interesting seeing his perspective, but as a brit I immediately could "tell" that was the UK. The yellow "AA" sign is the UK's emergency roadside service. The trees as the sides of the roads is very british with the type of foliage. Due to the steepness of the hills you are either looking at the peak district or devonshire. As the peak district is more tundra, this would be south of England.
@@PBalint817 geowizzard has a series on that with finding subscribers locations from pictures (not houses tho just like touristy type pictures, also he does use google)
The 0.1 segment really convinced me of a hypothesis I've come up with after playing and wathing other people; - COLORSCHEMES are really consistent due to not only local foliage,- but sun exposure of that specific latitude affecting the color of the whole image.
True, I'm thinking, A computer program to do this better than humans? Shouldnt be impossible, an AI reading signs and determining language, looking at plants and their growth zones, color scheme, people (skin color, fashion, length etc) Established brands, street names, color of soil and rock etc, license plates, left/right hand side driving, road marking, animals, climate zones. Like shiiiit theres a lot of things that can be used from jsut one image, such a computer program has the potential to track ANYONE down if they jsut post a single picture of where they are. Kinda scary to be honest, and I am guessing it already exists in some form or another.
That is probably the most impressive thing I've seen anyone do... The way you found them so quickly and then at a flash know aswell... unreal. I live in Australia have have probably driven on that exact road. I paused it... you had it for a flash... I couldn't tell you where it was and you could. Use your powers for good and not evil good sir 😂😂
this is so insane its honestly so fascinating to see the this. i would love more of these videos it's helpful and it would be amazing if you could make one and just go in depth about why it's that country
you could find countless tutorials but it all does come down to just trivia, some countries have a different geoguesser truck, some have different light poles, turkey has a different stop sign than any other country. etc. So being a geoguesser pro does not mean you are nessecarly good at geography or recognizing countries rather that you're more trivial at the game, HOWEVER there is a point where you cross the line of knowing what to look for over to recgonizing landscape or architechture, so you will eventualy become experienced with real life geography.
@@pr3bzi not really. it also comes down to the feel of the country. random knowledge of very specific and niche things of a country won't narrow it down that quickly. i have lived in eastern europe for a long time and i can immediately feel it and narrow it down to a certain country. the bushes, roads, everything. it all feels very specific to that region even though it isn't
ig you hear the scrolling of the mousewheel. that makes a noise similar to the chickens in my neighbors garden. but i personally dont know how punching a chicken sounds like
@@Meitary he doesn't, it's very doable to study every little quirk that could be seen on roads/license plates/dirt/car. Whatever the street view camera sees. Spend enough time memorizing all those details and then you too can do this. o if you actually wanted to be good at geoguessr you could. It's not photographic memory that would be less impressive it if was
he also explained he has (/used to have i cant remember) a super wide monitor setup so he could see a bigger picture than what we'd be able to on our devices
@@ziwuri idk thats just how he phrased it, you dont have peripheral vision when looking at a phone but when using a monitor you can take advantage of that and kinda use a higher % of your eyes capacity if you will
nah its pretty cheaty tbh. Like he says. Black car = these 3 countries. etc etc. All just hacks to narrow it down very quickly. From and back yellow plate? Netherlands. Black car? Peru / uru . 8 angles on pole? Mexico. etc etc. He isnt even looking at the scene itself. Just picking 2/3 markings and go with it.
@@TehBananaBreadHow is that cheaty? He’s gone through the effort to learn all the meta stuff and remember it off the top of his head. That’s many hours of training your brain to remember all that. Even if you know all the meta stuff like licence plates and google cars most people still couldn’t do it nearly as quickly or easily. He gets countries off what their foliage looks like in a split second to me that’s impressive.
@@TehBananaBread The dude puts thousands of hours into a game and learns all the ins and outs, tips and tricks, and it becomes second nature to him, and you think it’s “cheat” lmao. You arent very smart.
@@TehBananaBread but he is looking at the scene. The plates are part of the country. Nearly every country has a different one so it makes sense to take note of it. The different poles also makes sense as they are part of the architecture. Its not cheaty at all.
@@xforce6213 poles and plates aren't cheaty, but stuff about the Google car/follow car/camera quality is pretty cheaty since it has nothing to do with the region most of the time
@@bigos_regnum It’s clearly not, but if you know exactly how the country looks you can clearly identify resources and where they are specific, because that’s the common geography.
@@Skyfighter94 He definitely knows alot more about road markings, the tiny details in the way the google maps car recorded the images, and the color of dirt in different locations than culture, politics, and history of all these countries. Technically world knowledge, but not what most regular people would consider world knowledge.
i spent hours in college trying to figure out where by high-school crush lived from a picture of her neighbor's house. And I KNEW the village but still couldn't find her house because i suck at recognition. I'm impressed with you sir !
I think the tournaments where you hear all the other commentators come to the same conclusions is enough to show there's no cheating. Also it should be noted that a lot of these maps use the same hand full of countries which narrows it down even more. My favorite thing in life is seeing people push the limits of the human mind, so it's frustrating to see people dismiss it as cheating when they should be getting inspired to push themselves instead
"Also it should be noted that a lot of these maps use the same hand full of countries which narrows it down even more." That's what can feel like "cheating". People can just play it so much that they get locations multiple times and recognize them.
@@sonoftheway3528 apparently there are thousands of locations and u see them for 0.1sec. And so what if he remembered all of the locations it still doesn't make it cheating coz u aren't braking the rules.
I started playing Geoguessr because I saw your colab with Ludwig and I was immediately fascinated by your skills. So I took a deep dive and watched some of your geoguessr tournaments on twitch and absolutely loved them. Can't wait for the next one! 😁 ❤️
6:11 if you noticed the toll road with those distinct huge power line going parallel to it, that is guaranteed around north Java as there is no road looking like that in other part of Indo. I've went this exact road multiple times.
The most impressing thing is how during that speedrunning bit I couldn't even finish scanning the images properly before he had already changed location! He's just that dang good at it! You're amazing dude, I'm really looking forward to seeing more of what you can do!
He’s done a few things for people and even figured out where popular videos are located. He’d be perfect. He deserves more recognition and really should do more with his skill
@@blaze1927 please just dont tell me you believe this fake crap. describing a pic and looking around, okay. seeing the pic for 0.1 secs? sure lmaooooo you cant be serious
Rainbolt is definitely one of the best and my favorite geoguesser, but there are more skilled players out there. You should watch some of his weekly tournaments and you'll see what I mean :)
@@hlundy9997 I was aiming for more of a joke in this case since it was funny there was two big arrows on the ground and he points out the sign. Woosh.
@@hlundy9997 ??? I'm thinking you must be a little bit high. You 'dismantled' yourself by failing to realize the obvious joke. But it's okay, you can pretend you did and keep believing you are right in your own head.
Is it just me or could none of you guys understand how he can look at an area in the world for 0.1 seconds and instantly know where it is... I am mind blown
he probably done a lot of travelling and played this shit for a long time, so experience. it is mind blowing tho for sure, certain countries were pretty obvious but others not.
Occasionally when im watching these I get them really quickly too (usually if it's my own country or I recognise a language or something) so I can see how if you practice all these tiny details would become second nature
1:06 Until this point I was like "How does this guy know the country without even looking around" and then this area came up and I immediately knew it was Finland (I live there). I guess there's just some little details you learn to notice
@@billhaverchuck3745 I meant that I thought there would be areas that are basically just a road in the middle of nowhere and you'd maybe have to look around to maybe see a sign or something but no, there were always a lot of signs that he was able to identify
I feel like Rainbolt gets most of his answers by looking at the type of the google car which is kinda mind blowing. And the amount of knowledge abt the environment he has
my guy honestly after seeing you on ludwings vid i really wanted to binge ur content but the 1h stuff was too much commitment so i'm very happy that you're experimenting with shorter 10 min content
