Does anyone find themselves refreshing the CAPCHA a lot to ‘solve’ it, or do you usually ‘solve’ it on the first attempt?
Since the OP is really loolking for opinions, I’m moving this from General Questions to IMHO.
samclem Moderator
It depends on the site.
The most recent one I did a couple days ago was very hard. One of the pair of words seemed to be the same blurry word duplicated, one duplicate shifted about 1/3 letter height relative to the other. I went through a bunch of refreshes on that one.
Apart from that one case. I’ve rarely had to refresh or had any trouble.
I always find this one rather challenging.
How does it fail?
Or, how could it be improved such that refreshes are not needed?
Capcha art. Some funny, some not.
Joe
I’ve said “fark it” and gone with the audio when it looks dubious. The audio is usually very easy, just numbers so far. Otherwise, I’m just guessing; there have been times I’m sure I got it wrong and it was considered a success, but it’s just luck.
If there are two separate words, i.e. ReCaptcha, you only need to get one of them right. I know that if either word has numbers, symbols, or weird fonts or bolding or italics, it is irrelevant, and can be replaced by random characters. Also, the words are never the same length - IIRC, the shorter of the two words is irrelevant, and can be replaced with random characters.
Joe
This explains much, thanks!
Really? I find the audio near impossible. But I’ve never gotten just numbers. I get like 20 words with background noise that makes it hard to even hear the first one.
That said, I never find Recaptcha, the only one I’ve seen give the audio option, to be hard. It’s when they make the words all curvy and squished in software, and the random results wind up making one letter look like another.
Google captchas are the hardest for me. I rarely get them on the first go