A little history of bits repeating.

Not everyone will recall the various games, intended or not, built into the early digital wrist watches but the quintessential, – the ‘pong’ – , of the genre involved double-tapping the stopwatch button.

Predating the mouse double-click, the most common versions of the game were:

1. Stopping the timer at exactly 1.00 second
   (it was still exciting at the time to control characters on screens)
2. Double-tapping as fast as possible
   (less than 0.1 seconds considered ‘good’, given the sensitivity of the button)

"...once again retiring myself from a sport that has enriched the lives of so many..."

Perfect 99.

In the rare need of a stop watch one day, my phone filled in and revealed the ‘time tapping’ game in a new form! Above, using the interval lap timer, was my first (and LAST) attempt – once again retiring myself from a sport that has enriched the lives of so many…