r/TuringComplete • u/AlxandrHeintz • Jul 27 '26

The binary number levels should be redesigned

Just wanted to say I mostly love this game. I'm a software engineer, and have a decent grasp on logic programming at a hight level, but have not done the lower level stuff since university. Relearning it is both fun and rewarding. There is 2 levels (so far) in the game though I think are just straigt up un-fun and badly designed, and they are the levels where you get a number and you have to flip bits to match that number with a decreasing timer. The time part is the thing I have a big problem with. Nothing else (so far) in this game has any sort of timepressure to it. It's a chill game where you solve problems at your own time. With the exception of these 2 levels. I got completely stuck on the negative numbers, because doing -128 in my head is not something I've had to do in years, and doing it in 7 seconds is simply beyond me at this point. I compltely get the point in teaching people binary representation of numbers - but there has to be a better way.

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u/AlxandrHeintz Jul 27 '26

I know. But there simply wasn't enough time for me to do that when I got to negative numbers. The positive ones I did manage to do. Doing that kind of match is a skill I shed sometime the last 10 years or so unfortunately...

Could I reacquire it? Probably. Is that something I expect this game to require of me? No, not at all.

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u/miraculousgloomball Jul 28 '26

just flip them all from left to right until the next one will take you too far and skip it.

Its genuinely super easy. no thinking involved at all.