How good are you at CAPTCHA checks?

[Dulanic]

They seem to be getting harder to read lately too.

 

[HamburgerBoy]

~90%. They actually seem to be easier for me now. The cats and dogs thing that occurred a while ago was ridiculous.

Worst one I ever had.
Emailed the webmaster and asked him WTF.
He went ahead and signed me up (ElderScrollsNexus).

TWBN4V.

(the 4 doesn't look right, but aside from that...)

 

[destrekor]

I can do most fairly easily, but the new trend for the Google captchas that often contain bizarre symbols that equate to nothing my keyboard can produce without resorting to ASCII code? Yeah, I'm refreshing that shit 400 times in a row until I get "cat gilded" or something else that at least resembles words.

Yeah I think they are starting to run into a laundry list of difficult scans and not so many easy ones. They have to have a sorting probably, where they see an OCR grab had a lot of fails but they looked easy so he marked them so, and another page scan was all screwed up and marked all the errors hard.

A lot of the ones I'm even able to do are still pretty bad looking. I think they probably ran an even split on probability of the range of difficulties, but misjudged how often people would even bother on some hard ones and skipped and settled on easy.
And a lot of people just skip until they get one they know they can solve no problem, avoiding even one failed attempt. That chews up through them.

I wonder if it'll be getting to the point where they splurge on another massive run (not sure if they've been getting more scans or not) or if administrators will take notice of a rampant increase in difficulty and switch to a different captcha.

(this was all about Google's captcha service)

 

[BladeVenom]

Here's a few simple ones.

 

[Broheim]

I'd put myself at around 95% as long as it's letters that I can replicate without ASCII codes then I can get it, but sometimes it's just little drawings that there isn't even an ASCII symbol for...

 

[WelshBloke]

http://www.fulldhamaal.com/funny-pictures/best-of-funny-captchas-3383.htm

:biggrin:

 

[Wyndru]

These things cause a lot of headaches for me now that we are a google apps shop. Lots of phone calls from people that have either never seen one or just can't get them right. I usually end up just asking them what they want their password to be and manually entering it in. It's actually the reverse of security as a result.

 

[T_Yamamoto]

:biggrin:

....shit. 30 seconds

 

[Linflas]

Most of my problems with them come from the ones that use upper and lower case letters and I have to figure out whether I am looking at an X or x, W or w, P or p etc.

 

[zanejohnson]

Totally horrible

 

[T_Yamamoto]

Most of my problems with them come from the ones that use upper and lower case letters and I have to figure out whether I am looking at an X or x, W or w, P or p etc.

True. But most of the time. Cap doesn't matter

 

[randomrogue]

I'm terrible. I seem to get the ones where they use letters not in the English language and letters so distorted and tightly spaced that I can't tell the difference between them.

 

[amdhunter]

 

[HamburgerBoy]

Looks like cnzj to me.

 

[Broheim]

Looks like cnzj to me.

yeah it's cnzj

 

[randomrogue]

Are you guys joking? I don't see anything that could even resemble a letter.

 

[JujuFish]

Are you guys joking? I don't see anything that could even resemble a letter.

Are you? The letters aren't even distorted.

 

[HamburgerBoy]

Are you guys joking? I don't see anything that could even resemble a letter.

 

[ss284]

Looks like cnzj to me.

It's cnzf. Are you a robot???

 

[HamburgerBoy]

It's cnzf. Are you a robot???

Since when does the bottom of an f curve to the left like that?

EDIT: Although actually, it does appear to curve at the top as well. And there is a little line through the top, although it seems rather high even for an f.

 

[ss284]

Since when does the bottom of an f curve to the left like that?

EDIT: Although actually, it does appear to curve at the top as well. And there is a little line through the top, although it seems rather high even for an f.

 

[HamburgerBoy]

Yeah, that made it more clear. I've still never seen a font that made an f look like an integral sign with a dash through it.

 

[randomrogue]

That's nuts. What website uses that thing?

 

[GTaudiophile]

This thread cracks me up.

I no longer feel alone

 

[T_Yamamoto]

This thread cracks me up.

I no longer feel alone

You still are alone.