Entertainment, not instruction
The games here are arcade entertainment. They are not simulations of swordsmanship and nothing on this site should be taken as instruction about handling a real weapon of any kind.
Reach values, wind-up durations, recovery frames and everything else in the combat system were chosen for legibility on a screen, not for accuracy. Real sword fights are far faster, far less readable and over in a fraction of the time.
Claims about skill and performance
Where the guides discuss reaction time, anticipation or practice, they describe how these games work and what generally improves within them. They are not medical, cognitive or psychological advice.
Where a general claim about human performance is made - such as typical adult reaction times - it is presented as a general range rather than as a measurement of you, and it is offered as context rather than as a diagnosis.
The reaction figures the games report are measured intervals between a prompt being drawn and an input arriving in your browser. They include hardware latency that is not you, as the guides explain, and they are not clinical measurements.
Accuracy of technical content
Numbers quoted in the guides - timing windows, damage values, scoring multipliers - are read from this site's own source code and describe this site's own games. They do not describe any other game and should not be assumed to generalise.
Games may be retuned. Where a change makes a quoted figure wrong, the affected guides are updated. If you find a discrepancy, the contact page has a 'Guide correction' subject.
Scores and rankings
All scores shown on this site are your own, stored in your own browser. There are no global leaderboards, no rankings and no comparison against other players, because a site with no accounts and no server storage cannot collect that information.
Where a page describes games as 'popular' or 'featured', that is an editorial selection and is labelled as such. It is not a measurement of how many people play anything.
External links
Links to external sites are provided for reference only. We do not control their content and their inclusion is not an endorsement.