I don't know if this is OLD NEWS, but damn...

http://www.gametrailers.com/player/usermovies/223420.html?playlist=featured


I guess it really boils down to managing geometry or recognizing patterns or whatever on the fly like that. Like how people solve Rubik cubes so fast, but still pretty impressive. At the end is really weird because, I guess do to programming error of some sort with the credits blocking the view, the person clearly "remembers" the layout of the blocks, which would explain how it's done since the time it takes to look at what upcoming tetrominoe is above and finding a suitable position for it below must be incredibly hard to do in less than half a second.

What a waste of a life..

welcome to infinite rotate

real tetris players don't use the switch-a-piece-out function

they play the piece they're given

They made a tetris with a switch-a-piece-out function?
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Actually it can be decided in half a second or less. I'm a kickass tetris player and once you get up to the faster speeds it's like your brain is taken entirely out of the loop for the most part, and your fingers make the decisions out of reflex.

[The problem is not usually with deciding where to place the piece, but with having enough time to position it.]