Amount of time for timed challenges

I'm just starting the timed challenges. I have a whole script for timed 1, and I have a fairly good internet onnection speed, but no matter what I try, including not loading images, styles, colors, or anything else, I always end up getting the message "You took longer than a second!" Do you have any possible solutions for this?

do you have an answer

what?

nvm i just tried what i was thinking and found a flaw

Are you doing it in php by any chance?

Run your script when theres only a few people online on hbh, that worked when i had the same problem.

=]

cueballr.

can i pm someone with my php curl code for timed 1, which always say that i took longer than a second. Thanks.

Run it over a fast connection, and also make sure you run it from your own machine and not from a web hotel etc since that may slow it down.

You can pm me @ crashbird. =]

cueballr.

I think all the challenges to be set at 3 seconds. For the first one I used vb.net and it took at least 1 second for the page to load. I just had to keep doing it like 50 times until I was lucky. Nobody's going to be able to do it by hand in under 3 seconds, so increasing the time shouldn't cause any problems.

Well actually, I'm using greasemonkey.

I must say I used perl scripts for all the challenges and never had problem with time ( not even in timed 4, where I was encrypting all the passwords after I returned the page ) and I've got shared wifi connection, so the speed ins't exclusive at all…

cURL and greasemonkey are both very, very slow. You might want to change your language to something a bit more "grown up". C(++), Python or Perl are probably your best choices.

PHP + cURL worked fine for me, sometimes just needs a couple of "refreshes" to get it working properly.

spyware wrote: cURL and greasemonkey are both very, very slow. You might want to change your language to something a bit more "grown up". C(++), Python or Perl are probably your best choices.

Eh, maybe. But the easiest way to achieve it is probably the best and cURL and/or greasemonkey are by far easier.

system_meltdown wrote: PHP + cURL worked fine for me, sometimes just needs a couple of "refreshes" to get it working properly.

Same for me.