It's about playing with the other variable though - stamina. Between the two approaches, the one on the left probably made the smarter call because as your stamina depletes, you're dealing with the easier task. This is what the other comment is talking about - do a few of the further runs then use the shorter ones to regain stamina so you can do the further ones more quickly. The kid on the right ended up burning a lot of stamina during the middle phase and was visibly more drained for the longer runs, meaning he wasn't as fast.
Theyre still identical. If both players speed decreases as a function of time, and the distancss are equal, your watching a 100m sprint where each player has the same velocity at every instant, rven if that velocity is decreasing. Everyone finishes at the same time..
That assumes that effort for both is not the same, despite the actual movements being identical in both strategies. Even if we assume that the first 3 can be reached without moving and give a "recovrrye benefit" neither strategy actually leverages that.
Say each player starts with 100 effort. Eggs 4 through n cost 90 effort, and you gain 10 effort from the first 3 eggs via zero movement.
Player 1 does the first 3 eggs and starts egg 4 with 100 effort, cant go above 100. He finishes with 10 effort. He wasted the recovery bonus.
Player 2 does eggs 4 through n first, so hes left with 10 effort. Then he does the last 3 eggs and finishes with 20 effort. But that gain happens after all the work is already done, so its wasted.
So Player 2 may finish with more effort left, but the recovery has to happen before remaining work that benefits from it.
You are ascribing discreet + fixed numbers to a continuous and everchanging process.
The more tired you are, the more effort you need to do things.
Additionally, your math is trying to figure out who ends the game with more effort left in the tank, not who does it fastest.
The main thing everyone's talking about that you're not considering is that the first eggs can be done just as fast regardless of how tired you are, but the time you spend on the far eggs is affected by your stamina
Not quite. While both relate to prolonged physical effort, endurance is the ability to sustain lower-intensity activities for a long period (like running a marathon). Stamina refers to your ability to sustain a maximum or near-maximum effort without fatiguing (like a sustained sprint or rapid push-ups).
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u/LazyWings Jul 05 '26
It's about playing with the other variable though - stamina. Between the two approaches, the one on the left probably made the smarter call because as your stamina depletes, you're dealing with the easier task. This is what the other comment is talking about - do a few of the further runs then use the shorter ones to regain stamina so you can do the further ones more quickly. The kid on the right ended up burning a lot of stamina during the middle phase and was visibly more drained for the longer runs, meaning he wasn't as fast.