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Weird. When I tried to just "type random" without looking at the keys, it was routinely getting me around 75%. I tried looking at the keys as you described, and my score immediately dropped to around %50 and was even below %50 for a bit. Then it crept back up to around %60 when I started talking to a co-worker while typing.


There's been a number studies that showed that humans are bad at random number generation. e.g. "Humans cannot consciously generate random numbers sequences" http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17888582


Humans are bad at random number generation, until you train them to do it. Randomness is a skill that can be learned like any other.


Do you have any resources on how to become better at randomness?


I don't, but if you are curious I know Allen Neuringer studied training random behavior in animals and humans via reinforcement.


No, but I've got some dice here.


Sure, but I'm curious why looking at the keys seems to matter.


I guess that goes back to the original premise of the experiment. That "free will" is unpredictable. And the way I thought about it is that for me to have a true inclination -- not to just do it "randomly" -- I'd have to look at the keys and feel something.




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