You can measure your reaction time here: https://www.justpark.com/creative/reaction-time-test/
A bunch of people at my work tried it, I was the fastest at 50 years old in the 240ms ballpark consistently. How do you score?
Reaction time is a lot slower than I would have thought! I read that our auditory reactions are about 30ms faster than visual ones due to the simpler processing pipeline. A pinball travels about 4"-5" in a quarter of a second if it is going 1 mph.
OK, I tried it, I'm 54, in the 370-80ms range (that of an early 20's). Maybe playing pinball does help 
I averaged about 34 year old. I'm 56. So maybe pinball does help. But this explains why 20+ year old pin heads can kick my ass.
That test seems to depend on return time to its server. From an iPad on my home network after a few tries I continually got below 240 ms, age 23, the lowest it will go. I later tried from my work computer at a real keyboard, but using a VPN that is clearly loaded down with lots of people. I could never get below 550 ms, age mid 50's. The test is not designed to be a measure of anything but maybe ping time on your network.
mid 60's I got..we're not sure if you're an actual human being with reaction time of (282) milliseconds.
kinda fun (probably cause it made me feel good).
Maybe a little. I just assumed we got better at predicting what the ball was gonna do based on experience with the game.
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