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Monday, May 7, 2012

Games Are You Really Good at Unlocking Your iPhone?

Posted by The Stranger Testing Department on Mon, May 7, 2012 at 11:06 AM

Like are you fast? Very fast? The fastest? Sure, you can unlock your iPhone to the right—anybody can—but what about to the left? What about two unlocks at once? In two directions? Are you better than all your friends at unlocking your phone? Are you better at unlocking your phone than anyone in the world? What if there were a global leaderboard for people who were really good at unlocking their iPhone? Perhaps amazingly, there is—thanks to this ridiculous but ingenious but super-meta nugget of pure game-ness.

Go to Game Center and look at the all-time leaderboard. #1 is like 2.1B, and #2 is 12K. What is up with Fabio_figo71?

The app is free, but for 99 cents, you can "slide in ultimate style" with "Golden Sliders"—which seemed like just an arch joke about microtransactions until we realized how much money they've probably made off it. (Warning: This game has been around for forever. But we kind of can't stop playing it.)

The Stranger Testing Department is Rob Lightner and Paul Hughes.

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I keep expecting something horrible to happen as a result of not owning an iphone. Hasn't happened yet, but my nine year old niece seems to enjoy hers.

Posted by Lilliable on May 7, 2012 at 11:21 AM

Don't have one; don't want one.

Posted by Fifty-Two-Eighty

on May 7, 2012 at 11:24 AM

I saw a brilliant idea for an app yesterday that I can't believe hasn't been made. You text your GPS coordinates--willingly--to a friend, to a help them find you on the matching app on their side, between Android and iOS. Or you can have your phones ping to each other like homing beacons.

"Meet me at Folklife/Bumbershoot/Bite of Seattle/etc"

"Where?"

"Click."

Then you home in on each other. Awesome for parents too, to keep tabs on your kid with the same app.

Posted by Joe Szilagyi

on May 7, 2012 at 11:26 AM

Cute, but let me know when there's an app that times how long it takes to fish an iPhone out of the toilet after you accidentally drop it in. That's where the real competition is.

Posted by Zebes