Anybody else really struggle with reCAPTCHA?

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I don't know if it's an ASD problem or just something I personally struggle with, but whenever I see a reCAPTCHA box I want to punch something. I have to refresh the image about 50 times before I find one I can actually decipher, and even then it's a challenge. I particularly struggle with the fuzzy photographs of house numbers and the wavy words with a black splodge in the middle.
Here's a few examples.



OK. "Since", that's easy enough ... "nstruiv"? "nstnliv"?
I have no idea. I guess I'll try a different image.



What is that? A zero? A pair of brackets?
Next.



agesEv? aBesEV? I can read the Mes- bit but I don't know how to type e's with accents.



Seriously? What IS that? Is that even a letter? I see a white bar with a kind of white circle on it. Is there a number or letter in the circle or is the circle itself supposed to be a 0?

I hate those. I always have to do them two to three times before getting them right.

I'll let you into the secret.... with Recaptcha the word that's all messed up the system doesn't know what it is either, it's scanned in from actual printed text rather than being computer-generated, you can type in anything you want as long as you get the other one correct

I have trouble with them

I have trouble with these. I know many people who have trouble with these, and not all of them are autistic.

I find them really difficult too. I've tried cheating and using the audio option which is meant for the visually impaired but that includes a lot of background noise which I struggle to tune out so I find them even more difficult.

I hate them too. They claim to be used because of bots / spammers. Yet, they're no good for visually impaired people.

Would love to know how they're legal under the Equalities Act.

OMG Yes! I despise these things. I thought that it was just me. I had thought about asking if others had an issue, but just never got around to it.

I have good vision, excellent pattern matching and superior visual-spatial skills, but I struggle with these things most of the time. I see a dozen different possibilities where others see only one. I can't tell you how many times I've been flagged as a 'bot' because I keep failing these.

Along similar lines, I had a real problem in school with plotting and extrapolating curves on a graph. Everyone else could just carry that curved line forward to where it was supposed to go, but I'd get into huge arguments with teachers about how there weren't anough data points and the curve could effectively end up anywhere or that the data points were describing a curve that they didn't actually intersect. I was a straight-A math & science student except for any tests where we had to extrapolate curves. I felt like I had some sort of brain-damage. I still get that way with people making generalizations based on limited data. I can't see how they jump to a conclusion when there are hundreds of equally likely outcomes.

I think they are getting more difficult, but that has nothing to do with Asperger's. Rather, spammers and others are getting better, so the tests get more and more difficult.

(The e accute "é" normally can't be typed at all on a standard English QWERTY keyboard. You should check your browser configuration; maybe you have set it to another language than English?)

I only knew one of those examples for certain - I guessed with the others, lol

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It's nice to know I'm not the only one. I remember the days when I could read them most of the time... Apparently those were the easy ones. Thanks for the tip about typing in random characters. I'll try that. Maybe then it'll take less time to submit a reCAPTCHA than it does to sign up for an account.

I thought it was just me. I hate damn reCAPTCHA

These things have gotten ridiculously difficult. Soon, I will require several moar chromosomal deletions and duplications to be able to perceive and type these things.

Lol I made a thread about this not long ago. Captchas are the bane of my existence.

I got this reCAPTCHA a few years ago and saved it because it was so ludicrous.



The best part was that in order to upload that picture to tinypic I had to solve a reCAPTCHA.