@@virago..9678 I am not discreting. Ive played chess and could memorize the whole board in a second, and in geoguessr time doesnt matter to him. The guess is based on things like colour, trees, signs, and archiecture. You dont memorize and analyze the whole picture in your mind, its the overall vibe that geoguess pros are familiar with
Forget the speed at which he's able to analyze the screen, I'm more impressed he can know all the styles of utility poles, architecture, road signage, camera specs, road marking standards, and differences between grass around the world.
@@RichFresco But, like... he knows where to look. Every time. Processing and memorizing an image in .1 seconds is actually relatively easy if you know what you're looking for. Actually knowing what to look for, in the context of Geoguessr, is seemingly impossible to a non-professional, given that a million different tiny details could be vital. It's sorta like how a Grand Master's ability to recite all the moves of the game they're currently playing up until the present isn't really _that_ impressive compared to the fact that they're basically immune to blunders.
@@grzegorzbrzeczyszczykiewic563 It's super impressive, but I think it becomes more of an "impression -> feel" than actively looking for details and reasoning about. That's how he explains it in retrospect, but I don't think his brain is actually processing it like that, not anymore. On the Dutch photos I knew they were my home country INSTANTLY, because of more than a hundred different details. But I'm not ACTIVELY looking at any of those details, it's an almost subconscious reflex. I suspect he has trained that reflex for pretty much every country.
My favorite part of this video was at the beginning where he said "You can see where my eyes goes to help me find the answer" and then proceeds to look at the middle for .01 second of the next pictures without looking at anything else lmao absolutely insane
it makes sense, it's not like you can know where to look for the .01 second, so better to have your eyes in the middle and just use periphery to collect details
Well it kinda burns into your eyes the picture i mean so you wouldnt have to guess if you studied architechture, nature, road rules etc. as much as he has.
the time it takes for him to pin the location is actually longer than it takes for him to figure out the location. if they had a faster zooming map and a faster way to pin the location, that would decrease the time by more than half. absolutely inhuman. amazing, i'm extremely impressed by this.
If anything it is absolutely human. Humans have incredible brain capability but our bodies and tools to interact with the world are still crude compared to our minds.
@@BobbyBilly-m9mif they wanted to and spent the time to- yes they could. Or at least to a close enough level of speed & accuracy. Most people don't have the time or desire to do that for a skill that is ultimately very limited.
One helpful thing to know is that Germany almost never comes up on Geoguessr because of privacy laws interfering with google streetview, so that helps narrow it down to Austria
In the 0.1 second run he managed to recognise which state of my country a guardrail belonged to. How tf do you even recognise a NSW guardrail with plenty of time, let alone in 0.1 seconds? I'd say this guy needs a hobby, but...
Well he’s looking at the signs anyway because they are distinctive from country to country, so why not get 2 pieces of information for the price of 1 (price in this context is time)
I wanna see this man take a mystery flight and have him guess where he ends up, I bet he’d literally sniff the air once and go “yeah so this is Romania”
That would be a waste of money since he could just detect what air particles he's inhaling in find the circumference of the equator's quantom theory while he's in the plane to find out which direction he's going and where the plane is landing.
You would need a lot more than 10 minutes. Zi8gZag (Z8 is his channel icon), another top player, has multiple hour long videos on learning this stuff. Even if you watched all of them, I think you'd need to do a lot of practice
Born and raised in Finland my whole life. Man said guessing different regions of Finland is tough for me and proceeded to make a far better guess than I ever would've. Absolute legend
What about the less recognizable ones lol, I was dead certain in my brain and shout out, dude that's the Balkans (2 seconds later "Indonesia") and Indonesia really turned out to be :D
Height of the trees tells you how south or north you are in Finland. I was just in southern parts of Finland and the trees were huge. Greetings from Lapland.
I swear, you can literally make a game about anything and I guarantee that there's at least 1 person who's just inhumanly cracked at it. You can kidnap this dude and leave him in the middle of nowhere and he'll still guess where he is.
This is definitely not luck, you can tell he's spent a lot of time studying the regions along with common identifying characteristics and features. Impressive level of mastery
@@PBalint817 geowizzard has a series on that with finding subscribers locations from pictures (not houses tho just like touristy type pictures, also he does use google)
6:17, i'm indonesian and it took me a good 5 seconds to realize it. and it's actually quite impressive how he could pin down the location using the architecture and that one sign. personally, everything just screams road trip to yogyakarta for me. it feels like a tol road, those red roofed houses are always near to the road/at the horizon, the plants are always banana trees, just trees, or bushes, and theirs always fields of padi/rice/anything really, and those electricity towers around the horizon are spot on from what i remember from my last road trip. props to rainbolt for guessing everything so well.
it has some kind of nostalgic feeling on that "Jalan Tol" since i also live in Central Java. That houses and gedebog everywhere is obviously a Java Toll. Meanwhile in Sumatra toll the plant and grass is dry
The 0.1 segment really convinced me of a hypothesis I've come up with after playing and wathing other people; - COLORSCHEMES are really consistent due to not only local foliage,- but sun exposure of that specific latitude affecting the color of the whole image.
True, I'm thinking, A computer program to do this better than humans? Shouldnt be impossible, an AI reading signs and determining language, looking at plants and their growth zones, color scheme, people (skin color, fashion, length etc) Established brands, street names, color of soil and rock etc, license plates, left/right hand side driving, road marking, animals, climate zones. Like shiiiit theres a lot of things that can be used from jsut one image, such a computer program has the potential to track ANYONE down if they jsut post a single picture of where they are. Kinda scary to be honest, and I am guessing it already exists in some form or another.
this is so insane its honestly so fascinating to see the this. i would love more of these videos it's helpful and it would be amazing if you could make one and just go in depth about why it's that country
you could find countless tutorials but it all does come down to just trivia, some countries have a different geoguesser truck, some have different light poles, turkey has a different stop sign than any other country. etc. So being a geoguesser pro does not mean you are nessecarly good at geography or recognizing countries rather that you're more trivial at the game, HOWEVER there is a point where you cross the line of knowing what to look for over to recgonizing landscape or architechture, so you will eventualy become experienced with real life geography.
@@pr3bzi not really. it also comes down to the feel of the country. random knowledge of very specific and niche things of a country won't narrow it down that quickly. i have lived in eastern europe for a long time and i can immediately feel it and narrow it down to a certain country. the bushes, roads, everything. it all feels very specific to that region even though it isn't
I'm Mexican and my man said: "This type of structures are very common in Yucatan", by only seeing a bunch of bricks and while all the southern Mexican states have a very similar architecture, absolutely insane.
@@leo9982 do you know how google street view works? A car owned by google with cameras on it drive around and take a bunch of pictures Usually, it's only 1 google car per country, and most of the google cars are white. Peru has a black google car
ig you hear the scrolling of the mousewheel. that makes a noise similar to the chickens in my neighbors garden. but i personally dont know how punching a chicken sounds like
he also explained he has (/used to have i cant remember) a super wide monitor setup so he could see a bigger picture than what we'd be able to on our devices
@@ziwuri idk thats just how he phrased it, you dont have peripheral vision when looking at a phone but when using a monitor you can take advantage of that and kinda use a higher % of your eyes capacity if you will
@@Meitary he doesn't, it's very doable to study every little quirk that could be seen on roads/license plates/dirt/car. Whatever the street view camera sees. Spend enough time memorizing all those details and then you too can do this. o if you actually wanted to be good at geoguessr you could. It's not photographic memory that would be less impressive it if was
@@bigos_regnum It’s clearly not, but if you know exactly how the country looks you can clearly identify resources and where they are specific, because that’s the common geography.
nah its pretty cheaty tbh. Like he says. Black car = these 3 countries. etc etc. All just hacks to narrow it down very quickly. From and back yellow plate? Netherlands. Black car? Peru / uru . 8 angles on pole? Mexico. etc etc. He isnt even looking at the scene itself. Just picking 2/3 markings and go with it.
@@TehBananaBreadHow is that cheaty? He’s gone through the effort to learn all the meta stuff and remember it off the top of his head. That’s many hours of training your brain to remember all that. Even if you know all the meta stuff like licence plates and google cars most people still couldn’t do it nearly as quickly or easily. He gets countries off what their foliage looks like in a split second to me that’s impressive.
@@TehBananaBread The dude puts thousands of hours into a game and learns all the ins and outs, tips and tricks, and it becomes second nature to him, and you think it’s “cheat” lmao. You arent very smart.
@@TehBananaBread but he is looking at the scene. The plates are part of the country. Nearly every country has a different one so it makes sense to take note of it. The different poles also makes sense as they are part of the architecture. Its not cheaty at all.
@@xforce6213 poles and plates aren't cheaty, but stuff about the Google car/follow car/camera quality is pretty cheaty since it has nothing to do with the region most of the time
@@Skyfighter94 He definitely knows alot more about road markings, the tiny details in the way the google maps car recorded the images, and the color of dirt in different locations than culture, politics, and history of all these countries. Technically world knowledge, but not what most regular people would consider world knowledge.
I started playing Geoguessr because I saw your colab with Ludwig and I was immediately fascinated by your skills. So I took a deep dive and watched some of your geoguessr tournaments on twitch and absolutely loved them. Can't wait for the next one! 😁 ❤️
He’s done a few things for people and even figured out where popular videos are located. He’d be perfect. He deserves more recognition and really should do more with his skill
@@blaze1927 please just dont tell me you believe this fake crap. describing a pic and looking around, okay. seeing the pic for 0.1 secs? sure lmaooooo you cant be serious
The most impressing thing is how during that speedrunning bit I couldn't even finish scanning the images properly before he had already changed location! He's just that dang good at it! You're amazing dude, I'm really looking forward to seeing more of what you can do!
If he is for real, locating a place from seeing an image for a fraction of a second, he is by a huge order of magnitude one of the most brilliant people on the planet. Way to go rainbolt, you are monumentally impressive.
My brain legit didn't even register more than "green", "blue" or "car" at most of these 0.1 second pictures. Like, how is this even physically possible?
Every time Netherlands came up, I beat him to it, and I instantly recognize any imagery with really good accuracy to be Netherlands. I:d say that England has pretty distinct architecture, Curaçao and a few more I'd be highly confident at similar speeds. I think it's very common that people instantly recognize their own country, but for 230+ countries is insane.
Well yes he is doing it in a fraction of a second, but you dont need to be brilliant, just hardworking and dedicated to the craft, still tho, rainbolt is for sure brilliant
I think the tournaments where you hear all the other commentators come to the same conclusions is enough to show there's no cheating. Also it should be noted that a lot of these maps use the same hand full of countries which narrows it down even more. My favorite thing in life is seeing people push the limits of the human mind, so it's frustrating to see people dismiss it as cheating when they should be getting inspired to push themselves instead
"Also it should be noted that a lot of these maps use the same hand full of countries which narrows it down even more." That's what can feel like "cheating". People can just play it so much that they get locations multiple times and recognize them.
@@sonoftheway3528 apparently there are thousands of locations and u see them for 0.1sec. And so what if he remembered all of the locations it still doesn't make it cheating coz u aren't braking the rules.
Rainbolt is definitely one of the best and my favorite geoguesser, but there are more skilled players out there. You should watch some of his weekly tournaments and you'll see what I mean :)
@@hlundy9997 I was aiming for more of a joke in this case since it was funny there was two big arrows on the ground and he points out the sign. Woosh.
@@hlundy9997 ??? I'm thinking you must be a little bit high. You 'dismantled' yourself by failing to realize the obvious joke. But it's okay, you can pretend you did and keep believing you are right in your own head.
1:06 Until this point I was like "How does this guy know the country without even looking around" and then this area came up and I immediately knew it was Finland (I live there). I guess there's just some little details you learn to notice
@@billhaverchuck3745 I meant that I thought there would be areas that are basically just a road in the middle of nowhere and you'd maybe have to look around to maybe see a sign or something but no, there were always a lot of signs that he was able to identify
6:34 Just clues for Indonesia, if you found that type electrical transmission (500 kV), and a in a highway, a very good chance thats in Java. as 500kV only exist in Java.
Bro is like “maybe eye tracking will help my viewers” only for him to immediately get the first handful without even looking away from the dead middle of the screen
Is it just me or could none of you guys understand how he can look at an area in the world for 0.1 seconds and instantly know where it is... I am mind blown
he probably done a lot of travelling and played this shit for a long time, so experience. it is mind blowing tho for sure, certain countries were pretty obvious but others not.
Occasionally when im watching these I get them really quickly too (usually if it's my own country or I recognise a language or something) so I can see how if you practice all these tiny details would become second nature
Holy Sh*t! That's just insane. The dedication, amount of training and memorization to be able to do those fast guesses with your accuracy is beyond me! Hats off to you man.
When he's going fast you can see that he's just looking at the center of the screen and absorbing all the information with his peripheral vision. Absolutely wild.
I mean, that 0.1 round at the end... This is some crazy out-of-this-world skills! Cannot imagine, how this guy guesses places at that rate of images appearing and disappearing.
@@disbauxa It is beyond my ability, so he must be cheating. There is always someone out there who is so insanely good at something it seems impossible. But it's not.
*Jaw drops open* I have never seen anything like this. I didn't know it was possible for someone to recognize so many geographic details so quickly. I certainly didn't know there was a game around it. Truly incredible, my friend. WOW.
my guy honestly after seeing you on ludwings vid i really wanted to binge ur content but the 1h stuff was too much commitment so i'm very happy that you're experimenting with shorter 10 min content
Love the video! It feels like a longer one of your shorts which is interesting to see even more of your thought process and incredible skill. The eye tracker idea is cool to see what things you naturally just focus on and details to pay attention to.
2:28 I recognised those building immediately, I live nearby that's so crazy to see a place I know in a video. For anyone wondering that's the Central Station in Arnhem
That is an absolute wealth of knowledge of the Metadata used in geoguessr. I didn't think this level of accuracy was possible in such a short amount of time, let alone the 0.1s rounds.
He would make the perfect detective with a single picture or image even if its for 0.1 second he would be able to track people's location and as we saw he puts very little time into it. If he were to actually put like 1 hour going over every single detail he would get a much much more precise location. Mad respect keep the good work up.
not necessarily unless there are signs, which anyone could look up. he's very proficient at differences between countries (signs, architecture, driving side, license plates) but within countries those are all the same, usually. notice in this video how often his guess is within the country but off the mark.
He has found the exact location and address of many places before for his viewers. But yes it was a joke I overexaggerated his abilities if he was to see only a basement of course he wouldn't be able to find where that is. @@chandlerdaugherty1947
I love videos like this that aren’t tourneys or shorts. (don’t get me wrong i love the tourney vids) but i really love the 1 on 1 with the viewer kind of explaining things more in depth and what not. Love the content!
A few points at 8@16 It's interesting seeing his perspective, but as a brit I immediately could "tell" that was the UK. The yellow "AA" sign is the UK's emergency roadside service. The trees as the sides of the roads is very british with the type of foliage. Due to the steepness of the hills you are either looking at the peak district or devonshire. As the peak district is more tundra, this would be south of England.
you inspired me to stop touching grass
LMAO
Stop touching grass and start studying grass
this comment is so inspiring!
Are you infinite?
Amen
Can we all appreciate that his spacebar is still living after how hard he hits it
Space bar was crafted from the bodies of Nokias ong
That makes sense now
It was hard af to watch this video just hearing him smash that
@@fenixs0ftwaree certified mortis player
Had this pfp since 2020 or even 2019 my friend made it for me and never really bothered to changed it
"Hope that helped" - No actually. It's only left me even more baffled and amazed. Those 0.1 second rounds are crazy.
Its easier than you think
@@saimaannorppa8669 uhhh im not soo sure about that
@@virago..9678 Some things are easy to pick up, others are harder. You get used to seeing the same things in the same places and spoit patterns.
@@terakahn no i completely understand that but i feel like we're slightly discrediting that hes actually really talented :))
@@virago..9678 I am not discreting. Ive played chess and could memorize the whole board in a second, and in geoguessr time doesnt matter to him. The guess is based on things like colour, trees, signs, and archiecture. You dont memorize and analyze the whole picture in your mind, its the overall vibe that geoguess pros are familiar with
The speedruns were crazy enough but the accuracy during the 0.1 segment was actually unbelievable
Ye
I wouldn’t even recognise my family members in 0,1 seconds
I'm pretty sure he has someone using the google to search where he is at. It is not possible to know all that,, its all fake!
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ikr, the only one I knew from the 0.1 almost as quickly was the norway one from the really recognizable road lines
@@Sam-vj4xn Yes just what i was about to say ofc.
Forget the speed at which he's able to analyze the screen, I'm more impressed he can know all the styles of utility poles, architecture, road signage, camera specs, road marking standards, and differences between grass around the world.
I still think the speed to capture all of that in .1 seconds is more impressive
@@RichFresco But, like... he knows where to look. Every time. Processing and memorizing an image in .1 seconds is actually relatively easy if you know what you're looking for. Actually knowing what to look for, in the context of Geoguessr, is seemingly impossible to a non-professional, given that a million different tiny details could be vital. It's sorta like how a Grand Master's ability to recite all the moves of the game they're currently playing up until the present isn't really _that_ impressive compared to the fact that they're basically immune to blunders.
@memesfromdeepspace1075source?
@@RichFrescoWell duh but the most impressive thing is knowing all that
@@grzegorzbrzeczyszczykiewic563 It's super impressive, but I think it becomes more of an "impression -> feel" than actively looking for details and reasoning about.
That's how he explains it in retrospect, but I don't think his brain is actually processing it like that, not anymore. On the Dutch photos I knew they were my home country INSTANTLY, because of more than a hundred different details. But I'm not ACTIVELY looking at any of those details, it's an almost subconscious reflex. I suspect he has trained that reflex for pretty much every country.
i have never played geoguessr in my life and i can confidently tell you that this man is both cracked at the game and most likely clinically insane
dude can doxx anyone with only 1 picture of them
cringe stop insulting him he is prob just well educated
@@IDontLikeHandIes He's the 4channer that found a flag in the middle of nowhere.
@@iamapokerface8992 ur joking right
@@iamapokerface8992 🤓
My favorite part of this video was at the beginning where he said "You can see where my eyes goes to help me find the answer" and then proceeds to look at the middle for .01 second of the next pictures without looking at anything else lmao absolutely insane
it makes sense, it's not like you can know where to look for the .01 second, so better to have your eyes in the middle and just use periphery to collect details
Lmao i know what you mean. Feels more like the proof is that he's actually looking at the screen 😂
reminds me of that skit by CalebCity called "trying to learn anything new". Absolutely hilarious to actually see it in reality.
Well it kinda burns into your eyes the picture i mean so you wouldnt have to guess if you studied architechture, nature, road rules etc. as much as he has.
@@iarmycombo5659 So this is technically cheating. Because if you learn the answers, then it is not really a guessing anymore.
This guy can literally find his way home from the middle of nowhere just be examining the gradient of the dirt.
hhahahaha true mate
Me, jumping through the rift just so I can test to see if the 0.001% time travel chance is possible.
@@dragonf1recdn ?
@@lukasaoo88 Damn Googis you the only one who didnt get the joke :-(
Rain bolt: " i can see were in the middle eastern or, eastern india" "perhaps eu"
1:46 "we have the r i f t, yep its slovenia" 💀💀💀
we have a rift yup thats twisted towers
@@matthewjohnson4328you mean tilted
@@wilhelmbetz3565Welcome to Tilted Towers. As you can see I knocked over so many chairs because I get so tilted at the towers.
@@matthewjohnson4328bro twisted towers?😭
1:45 informative to know that rifts in the space-time continuum sometimes appear in Montenegro, I'll be sure to avoid traveling there
LMFAOOOOO
Also, try to avoid Senegal.
💀
try avoiding romania too, its for your own good
@@Poignant_ why tho
Rainbolt: *gets kidnapped and ends up in the middle of a desert*
Rainbolt: "Yeah this looks like Northeastern Chad."
chad doesnt have coverage so he probably wouldnt know it unfortunately :(
“We’re probably 83 meters from the nearest oasis”
*walks 91 meters*
“We’ll take that”
“Looks at air”
“No wait this is Niger”
@Sharky i didnt say they were poor?
@Sharky i never said anything about africa being poor…..
the time it takes for him to pin the location is actually longer than it takes for him to figure out the location. if they had a faster zooming map and a faster way to pin the location, that would decrease the time by more than half. absolutely inhuman. amazing, i'm extremely impressed by this.
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If anything it is absolutely human. Humans have incredible brain capability but our bodies and tools to interact with the world are still crude compared to our minds.
@@cattysplat yes but you can't do this and I bet 99% of the population probably can't do this
@@BobbyBilly-m9mif they wanted to and spent the time to- yes they could. Or at least to a close enough level of speed & accuracy. Most people don't have the time or desire to do that for a skill that is ultimately very limited.
I'm Austrian and literally raised an eyebrow when he said Austria with no doubt at all.
This dude knows my country better than i do, apparently
Thought the same thing lol
One helpful thing to know is that Germany almost never comes up on Geoguessr because of privacy laws interfering with google streetview, so that helps narrow it down to Austria
I though the same, Brazil is a huge country, geoguess players hat it, but he made an insane guess I'll take at least some minutes to do
Bruh imagine my reaction to him just guessing Brazil after 000.1 seconds of seeing a road
In the 0.1 second run he managed to recognise which state of my country a guardrail belonged to. How tf do you even recognise a NSW guardrail with plenty of time, let alone in 0.1 seconds?
I'd say this guy needs a hobby, but...
Love how at 5:37 he determined they were driving left by what way the sign was facing and not from the giant arrows on the road.
i didn't even notice but dang
Oh thank you. It gave me a chuckle and I felt happy about myself for a second or two about how I noticed that, then that got ruined again right away
good point! I'd guess vertical signs are more commonly found than the arrows, so he'd naturally look for them
lmao
Well he’s looking at the signs anyway because they are distinctive from country to country, so why not get 2 pieces of information for the price of 1 (price in this context is time)
I wanna see this man take a mystery flight and have him guess where he ends up, I bet he’d literally sniff the air once and go “yeah so this is Romania”
Tom from GeoWizard has a series like this! His gf drives him to somewhere in the UK whilst he's blindfolded, and he has to find where he is.
That would be a waste of money since he could just detect what air particles he's inhaling in find the circumference of the equator's quantom theory while he's in the plane to find out which direction he's going and where the plane is landing.
@@jtsnake7900 or he could look at the rift in the sky
cringe?
@@jchatz those are thoughts alot of us have often like some crazy thing but do not share them because it is cringe
Would love a 10 min tutorial helping me understand how my dude learned this skill. I’m legit blown away.
There's an interview by WIRED where he explains how he does it
You would need a lot more than 10 minutes. Zi8gZag (Z8 is his channel icon), another top player, has multiple hour long videos on learning this stuff. Even if you watched all of them, I think you'd need to do a lot of practice
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@@rodritinajas2509 que dise er nota
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Born and raised in Finland my whole life. Man said guessing different regions of Finland is tough for me and proceeded to make a far better guess than I ever would've. Absolute legend
Bro really out here embarrassing natives.
its more about patterns than actually knowing a country
What about the less recognizable ones lol, I was dead certain in my brain and shout out, dude that's the Balkans (2 seconds later "Indonesia") and Indonesia really turned out to be :D
Height of the trees tells you how south or north you are in Finland. I was just in southern parts of Finland and the trees were huge. Greetings from Lapland.
@@kanespella9035 Huh, never noticed. Cheers!
I swear, you can literally make a game about anything and I guarantee that there's at least 1 person who's just inhumanly cracked at it. You can kidnap this dude and leave him in the middle of nowhere and he'll still guess where he is.
"ya just from the crack in the road alone, and the smear on this blindfold, I can tell were somewhere in brazil"
yeah
search pigrank he is cracked at speedbuilders from minecraft
and since we're in the netherlands we're gonna dial 112 for emergency services
@@sowndolphin5386 alot of people are cracked at speedbuilding
This is definitely not luck, you can tell he's spent a lot of time studying the regions along with common identifying characteristics and features. Impressive level of mastery
More likely he played alot so the same image appears multiple times he remembers it.
@@mal4797 no it gets a random picture from Google Maps each time
@@CloudVR132 Google maps can’t have unlimited pictures. Might have a lot but still.
@@OldBenKenobi2318 I know but it would be incredibly hard to memorize every single one of the 220+ billion images on google maps
@@OldBenKenobi2318 The pictures are not unlimited, but theres enough to be safe to say that your not gonna come across the same image twice
"Might be helpful to see where I go"
Bruh looked at the street for 3 milliseconds what do you mean helpful
This dude is like the kind of people U.S. agencies would hire to track people down.
Edit: thanks for 10k likes.
HAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHHAAHAHAH
If you send him the corner of your wall he will still find you lol
he works for CIA, NSA, MI6 and FSB all at the same time
Don't forget the DMV and DHS. lol
I am surprised there are this many likes with only 3 comments.
I want to see this guy do a run where he takes his time to find the exact location.
And here you see we have a rift.
ruclips.net/user/shortsqCIzSx0QGVI?feature=share
Not real-time but close enough
...of his viewer's house
@@PBalint817 geowizzard has a series on that with finding subscribers locations from pictures (not houses tho just like touristy type pictures, also he does use google)
I want to see one where he guesses states
everytime he hits his spacebar i am actually concussed like a swat team member throwing a flashbang through my sliding glass door.
that poor keyboard (also my ears)
i have been sitting here laughing for 2 minutes straight at this comment
That’s quite specific.
Same, I had to turn my volume down just because of that
poor space bar bro 😢
6:17, i'm indonesian and it took me a good 5 seconds to realize it. and it's actually quite impressive how he could pin down the location using the architecture and that one sign. personally, everything just screams road trip to yogyakarta for me. it feels like a tol road, those red roofed houses are always near to the road/at the horizon, the plants are always banana trees, just trees, or bushes, and theirs always fields of padi/rice/anything really, and those electricity towers around the horizon are spot on from what i remember from my last road trip. props to rainbolt for guessing everything so well.
it has some kind of nostalgic feeling on that "Jalan Tol" since i also live in Central Java. That houses and gedebog everywhere is obviously a Java Toll. Meanwhile in Sumatra toll the plant and grass is dry
It surprisingly identical to Vietnam too
Oh, except that Vietnam drive on the right
I love that every time he guesses a place his keyboard gets abused
#keyboardlivesmatter
@@GetawayFilms No they don't.. Mortal Kombat tournaments do though :D
#keyboardlivesmatter
you can tell he used to use a typewriter
the keyborad likes it
The 0.1 segment really convinced me of a hypothesis I've come up with after playing and wathing other people;
- COLORSCHEMES are really consistent due to not only local foliage,- but sun exposure of that specific latitude affecting the color of the whole image.
True, I'm thinking, A computer program to do this better than humans? Shouldnt be impossible, an AI reading signs and determining language, looking at plants and their growth zones, color scheme, people (skin color, fashion, length etc) Established brands, street names, color of soil and rock etc, license plates, left/right hand side driving, road marking, animals, climate zones. Like shiiiit theres a lot of things that can be used from jsut one image, such a computer program has the potential to track ANYONE down if they jsut post a single picture of where they are. Kinda scary to be honest, and I am guessing it already exists in some form or another.
i cant fine when whats the time
@@assarstromblad3280 you would have to train the ai, would take some time but is possible :D
@@assarstromblad3280 i guarantee the government has this already
@@b-chroniumproductions3177 China probs have it they like tracking people down
this is so insane its honestly so fascinating to see the this. i would love more of these videos it's helpful and it would be amazing if you could make one and just go in depth about why it's that country
are thoose maybe the same places every time, so he can guess them so quick?
you could find countless tutorials but it all does come down to just trivia, some countries have a different geoguesser truck, some have different light poles, turkey has a different stop sign than any other country. etc. So being a geoguesser pro does not mean you are nessecarly good at geography or recognizing countries rather that you're more trivial at the game, HOWEVER there is a point where you cross the line of knowing what to look for over to recgonizing landscape or architechture, so you will eventualy become experienced with real life geography.
@@pirateplebxd1440 He is playing a map called "A diverse world" which has like 50k+ locations included in the map,so it can't be the same places
@@pr3bzi not really. it also comes down to the feel of the country. random knowledge of very specific and niche things of a country won't narrow it down that quickly. i have lived in eastern europe for a long time and i can immediately feel it and narrow it down to a certain country. the bushes, roads, everything. it all feels very specific to that region even though it isn't
@@CaganW i had 3k Diver License question witch i all recognised by the pickture, it could be possible i mean he just looks for half a second
I'm Mexican and my man said: "This type of structures are very common in Yucatan", by only seeing a bunch of bricks and while all the southern Mexican states have a very similar architecture, absolutely insane.
cus he def cheats lol
""black car this means peru" like what - every country has black carzs
@@leo9982 he means the google car, which is usually white.
@@leo9982 do you know how google street view works? A car owned by google with cameras on it drive around and take a bunch of pictures
Usually, it's only 1 google car per country, and most of the google cars are white. Peru has a black google car
@@XblasertX oh right thanks for clarifying sorru
Kidnapper "We'll let you go if you can guess where this location is"
Rainbolt: "You just fell for my trap card"
Seems the Kidnapper has never heard of Yu-Gi-Oh before 🤔🙃
@@z34rk79 what's yo gee yo?
@@z34rk79 ratio
@@buyrcsp2 your too young to even bother, took me 4 months to care to respond
"This is just Borneo"
Every time he picks a location the spacebar/mouse makes it sound like he's punching a chicken.
sweet sweet mechanical keyboard sounds
How do you know what the sound of punching a chicken is
ig you hear the scrolling of the mousewheel. that makes a noise similar to the chickens in my neighbors garden. but i personally dont know how punching a chicken sounds like
@Backrooms specialist No prior knowledge, it's just the loud bang and the chicken sounding mousewheel. Seems comedical to me.
9:34 *GOD MODE ACTIVATED*
I like how for most of them he doesnt even move his eyes around the landscape and just instantly guesses
peripheral vision
he must have trained his peripheral vision
he also explained he has (/used to have i cant remember) a super wide monitor setup so he could see a bigger picture than what we'd be able to on our devices
@@kitkatkatsuki8629 wouldn't that mean he would have to look around more?
@@ziwuri idk thats just how he phrased it, you dont have peripheral vision when looking at a phone but when using a monitor you can take advantage of that and kinda use a higher % of your eyes capacity if you will
you're honestly the reason why i've been playing geoguessr so much lately and why i've actually been improving so thank you
He's so good it's actually less enjoyable to watch because it feels like he's seen everything
he's probably seen every location twice at this point (/j)
Haven't been watching for that long so the novelty hasn't worn off still. Still pretty fun to watch this man speed through these locations
@@Meitary i could post a photo and in 100% sure he could not guess where he is. At least he will hit the right continent.
@@Meitary he doesn't, it's very doable to study every little quirk that could be seen on roads/license plates/dirt/car. Whatever the street view camera sees.
Spend enough time memorizing all those details and then you too can do this.
o if you actually wanted to be good at geoguessr you could.
It's not photographic memory that would be less impressive it if was
The last section rapid guesses gives me the same chills as watching someone slay on an instrument, just so much mastery its actually scary
Both skills are derived from one thing, an insane amount of practice
This dude got A+ in all his geography throughout the years.
He said recently that he didn't like geography at all back in the days haha
Geography at school isn't about guesing the location from a snapshot.
@@bigos_regnum It’s clearly not, but if you know exactly how the country looks you can clearly identify resources and where they are specific, because that’s the common geography.
more like A+++ damn ahah
no, geography gets an A+ in rainbolt
THE MAN HAS SPENT HOURS STUDYING EVERY SQUARE INCH OF THE WORLD
The amount of practice it must have took to reach this level, to know instantly what country you’re in just from a baron landscape is insane
nah its pretty cheaty tbh. Like he says. Black car = these 3 countries. etc etc. All just hacks to narrow it down very quickly. From and back yellow plate? Netherlands. Black car? Peru / uru . 8 angles on pole? Mexico. etc etc. He isnt even looking at the scene itself. Just picking 2/3 markings and go with it.
@@TehBananaBreadHow is that cheaty? He’s gone through the effort to learn all the meta stuff and remember it off the top of his head. That’s many hours of training your brain to remember all that. Even if you know all the meta stuff like licence plates and google cars most people still couldn’t do it nearly as quickly or easily. He gets countries off what their foliage looks like in a split second to me that’s impressive.
@@TehBananaBread The dude puts thousands of hours into a game and learns all the ins and outs, tips and tricks, and it becomes second nature to him, and you think it’s “cheat” lmao. You arent very smart.
@@TehBananaBread but he is looking at the scene. The plates are part of the country. Nearly every country has a different one so it makes sense to take note of it. The different poles also makes sense as they are part of the architecture. Its not cheaty at all.
@@xforce6213 poles and plates aren't cheaty, but stuff about the Google car/follow car/camera quality is pretty cheaty since it has nothing to do with the region most of the time
He would probably be very disappointed if he actually went to Montenegro and there was no rift in the sky.
the insane amount of "world knowledge" this man has is just impressive
it's more "google maps trivia" than actual world knowledge. Still extremely impressive
@@Skyfighter94 He definitely knows alot more about road markings, the tiny details in the way the google maps car recorded the images, and the color of dirt in different locations than culture, politics, and history of all these countries. Technically world knowledge, but not what most regular people would consider world knowledge.
I started playing Geoguessr because I saw your colab with Ludwig and I was immediately fascinated by your skills. So I took a deep dive and watched some of your geoguessr tournaments on twitch and absolutely loved them. Can't wait for the next one! 😁 ❤️
He himself started after watching Ludwig's collab with GeoWizard. The cycle continues, lol.
@@ShaunCheah we're gonna see a Fiona & Ludwig collab soon and then that will inspire someone else
Bro same
Really cool that you do videos now, it's also pretty educational. I hope you will do more of these.
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4:00 "Black car" MINDBLOWN WHAT
he means the google car
google use different car in different countires. if you played this game for hundreds hours you can make educated guess based on the car along
Imagine if this guy used his powers to be a detective
He’s done a few things for people and even figured out where popular videos are located. He’d be perfect. He deserves more recognition and really should do more with his skill
@@blaze1927 please just dont tell me you believe this fake crap. describing a pic and looking around, okay. seeing the pic for 0.1 secs? sure lmaooooo you cant be serious
@@helenalaposova5830yet he still proven you wrong lmao😂
@@Cadamostos You mean the eyetracker that only focus on the middle or the fact that it is a video ? :/
@@helenalaposova5830 ok but he literally gives accurate details why he picks what he picks tho....
The most impressing thing is how during that speedrunning bit I couldn't even finish scanning the images properly before he had already changed location! He's just that dang good at it!
You're amazing dude, I'm really looking forward to seeing more of what you can do!
This is pure insanity
first reply Hi
If he is for real, locating a place from seeing an image for a fraction of a second, he is by a huge order of magnitude one of the most brilliant people on the planet. Way to go rainbolt, you are monumentally impressive.
My brain legit didn't even register more than "green", "blue" or "car" at most of these 0.1 second pictures. Like, how is this even physically possible?
Every time Netherlands came up, I beat him to it, and I instantly recognize any imagery with really good accuracy to be Netherlands. I:d say that England has pretty distinct architecture, Curaçao and a few more I'd be highly confident at similar speeds. I think it's very common that people instantly recognize their own country, but for 230+ countries is insane.
Well yes he is doing it in a fraction of a second, but you dont need to be brilliant, just hardworking and dedicated to the craft, still tho, rainbolt is for sure brilliant
I think the tournaments where you hear all the other commentators come to the same conclusions is enough to show there's no cheating. Also it should be noted that a lot of these maps use the same hand full of countries which narrows it down even more. My favorite thing in life is seeing people push the limits of the human mind, so it's frustrating to see people dismiss it as cheating when they should be getting inspired to push themselves instead
Intellectually based comment
it does not include China and India , adding these two countries would make it incredibly tough as they consist of 50% of the world's population .
"Also it should be noted that a lot of these maps use the same hand full of countries which narrows it down even more."
That's what can feel like "cheating". People can just play it so much that they get locations multiple times and recognize them.
@@sonoftheway3528 apparently there are thousands of locations and u see them for 0.1sec. And so what if he remembered all of the locations it still doesn't make it cheating coz u aren't braking the rules.
This might be the best geoguessr player I have EVER seen.
FRRR
IKRRR
It's funny because in a recent interview he said he feels he's probably top 25 or 30.
Rainbolt is definitely one of the best and my favorite geoguesser, but there are more skilled players out there. You should watch some of his weekly tournaments and you'll see what I mean :)
so it seems *cue pirates music*
Knowing the licenses plate when its blurred out is diabolical
5:38 We're driving left because the sign is facing left here. Not because of the two big arrows on the road pointing in the direction of travel
they both apply
Hes giving a more common occurence that not alot of people will pay attention to. Smooth brain.
@@hlundy9997 I was aiming for more of a joke in this case since it was funny there was two big arrows on the ground and he points out the sign. Woosh.
@@jarokier don't even bruh. You just mad I dismantled your whole "joke" it wasn't funny. Noones laughing.
@@hlundy9997 ??? I'm thinking you must be a little bit high. You 'dismantled' yourself by failing to realize the obvious joke. But it's okay, you can pretend you did and keep believing you are right in your own head.
1:06 Until this point I was like "How does this guy know the country without even looking around" and then this area came up and I immediately knew it was Finland (I live there). I guess there's just some little details you learn to notice
yeah but then dude clicks "swatini" or whatever the fuck and I didn't even know it was a country lmao
Peripheral vision is a thing
@@billhaverchuck3745 I meant that I thought there would be areas that are basically just a road in the middle of nowhere and you'd maybe have to look around to maybe see a sign or something but no, there were always a lot of signs that he was able to identify
@@yurilopes420 eswatini haha
I didn't even have time to register what I was looking at before he said "Finland," I feel like a failure
Really impressive, you are turning into one of my favorite channels to watch real fast!
Yoooo it's Verf!
DIe kerel is niet normaal
Bet he couldn't beat you at a karamja only geogessur
I see, A man of geography
Verf still wins osrsguessr
"I bought an eye tracker to prove I don't cheat as you will see what I look at" *only moves when looking at the button for the map*
This is actually wildly helpful. Goes to show how much your peripheral vision actually picks up! And also proves how much experience helps
he's literally 10 times faster than cheating...
they told this man "stop being on your computer, go out and see the world" and he literally knows the world better than god himself
Nah bro he walks outside he’s like “ alright hmm by the street color I can guess we’re in uk”
Only where the Google streetcar goes.
6:34 Just clues for Indonesia, if you found that type electrical transmission (500 kV), and a in a highway, a very good chance thats in Java.
as 500kV only exist in Java.
No, it exist in borneo too, but there's no highway here
I thought that the speedrun was so crazy and i was amazed until i saw the 0.1 sec round i was legit sitting here with my mouth open in awe
same... I legit was like this. 😱
2:00 *zooms into blurred licence plate* "yup, indonesian licence plate"
"It might be helpful to see where my eyes go"
His eyes sitting still for the entire 0.02 seconds per guess:
Bro is like “maybe eye tracking will help my viewers” only for him to immediately get the first handful without even looking away from the dead middle of the screen
Is it just me or could none of you guys understand how he can look at an area in the world for 0.1 seconds and instantly know where it is... I am mind blown
he probably done a lot of travelling and played this shit for a long time, so experience. it is mind blowing tho for sure, certain countries were pretty obvious but others not.
Same !!!!!!!!!!
That was insane. I got the Mexico one on that phase, so surely with more practice it would get easier.
Yeah, and he is only looking village roads 😮
Occasionally when im watching these I get them really quickly too (usually if it's my own country or I recognise a language or something) so I can see how if you practice all these tiny details would become second nature
"One person's brain works the hardest and most efficient in critical times" 9:08 he just proved it right there
Holy Sh*t! That's just insane. The dedication, amount of training and memorization to be able to do those fast guesses with your accuracy is beyond me! Hats off to you man.
“Ya there’s just a space rift in the sky” like without context that’s crazy
You're just so insanely good at this holy! I love hearing about all the tricks, would love to see more of this! :D
I was freaking out when you got to the 0.1 section. That was super impressive.
1:45
Ah yes, the giant tear in the Earth's atmosphere. How can I forget where that's from?
"We have a black car which means Argentina or Uruguay"
Makes sense
When he's going fast you can see that he's just looking at the center of the screen and absorbing all the information with his peripheral vision. Absolutely wild.
i noticed that too, its pretty amazing how quickly he can process the entire field of view.
0:17:
"So you can see what I'm looking at"
*Is looking directly at the center of each photo*
I mean, that 0.1 round at the end... This is some crazy out-of-this-world skills! Cannot imagine, how this guy guesses places at that rate of images appearing and disappearing.
thats what you call a clips lololol
Bros space bar is a victim 😭
the thing that amazes me the most is how loud it is when he enters his guess
It will forever remain a mistery how he is able to guess each single one so quickly
Have u heard something about hacking?
@@disbauxa Well yeah, maybe that’s it, but it could be experience or bald luck
But I mean, after all this video is called “proof that I don’t cheat”
@@disbauxa It is beyond my ability, so he must be cheating. There is always someone out there who is so insanely good at something it seems impossible. But it's not.
@@brindlebucker4741 Yes, he is cheating
*Jaw drops open* I have never seen anything like this. I didn't know it was possible for someone to recognize so many geographic details so quickly. I certainly didn't know there was a game around it.
Truly incredible, my friend.
WOW.
Have to add another comment. The WOW was based on the first 9 minutes of the video. I hadn't seen the 0.1 second game.
ABSOLUTELY INCREDIBLE, MAN.
I struggle to know places on a map. This man looks at it for 0.1 seconds and knows where he is. Impressive as hell
i’ve been getting into geoguessr and would love to see more videos explaining your thought process. It’s mind boggling how accurate you are fr
7:33 Just your typical dimensional rift in Montenegro ripping apart space and time. With such an obvious sign even I wouldn't have taken long smh
my guy honestly after seeing you on ludwings vid i really wanted to binge ur content but the 1h stuff was too much commitment so i'm very happy that you're experimenting with shorter 10 min content
There's this thing on RUclips that lets you skip through the video. Saved you the trouble. Use this knowledge well.
if he got kidnapped with a blindfold he would know his exact location just from the sounds
Love the video! It feels like a longer one of your shorts which is interesting to see even more of your thought process and incredible skill. The eye tracker idea is cool to see what things you naturally just focus on and details to pay attention to.
His skill at this point is just incredible. 9:19 was when it got really crazy tho
WTF i was shock until i see 9:19 and say no way dude?
2:28 I recognised those building immediately, I live nearby that's so crazy to see a place I know in a video. For anyone wondering that's the Central Station in Arnhem
eye tracking and explaining is wickedly instructive
Well done, Maestro
That is an absolute wealth of knowledge of the Metadata used in geoguessr.
I didn't think this level of accuracy was possible in such a short amount of time, let alone the 0.1s rounds.
6:03 Eswatini grass, good meme potential
0:50
„What is this? Romania?“
Looks at potholes
„Yeah, this is Romania“
Lol
I've driven down the road at 1:34 multiple times and it genuinely caught me off-guard
can you confirm the rift is there
3:25 “we have a black car which means argentina”😭😭😭😭
He would make the perfect detective with a single picture or image even if its for 0.1 second he would be able to track people's location and as we saw he puts very little time into it. If he were to actually put like 1 hour going over every single detail he would get a much much more precise location. Mad respect keep the good work up.
He did that actually, finding places by the photos.
He apparently gets asked to find locations for old childhood photos now.
not necessarily unless there are signs, which anyone could look up. he's very proficient at differences between countries (signs, architecture, driving side, license plates) but within countries those are all the same, usually. notice in this video how often his guess is within the country but off the mark.
He has found the exact location and address of many places before for his viewers. But yes it was a joke I overexaggerated his abilities if he was to see only a basement of course he wouldn't be able to find where that is.
@@chandlerdaugherty1947
I love videos like this that aren’t tourneys or shorts. (don’t get me wrong i love the tourney vids) but i really love the 1 on 1 with the viewer kind of explaining things more in depth and what not. Love the content!
You are more precise and reactive than the robot tracker in Squid Game's first round
Rainbolt: * guessed a countries *
His Space-Key: *my time has come*
5:13 ahh yes that specific truck is common in that region
This guys gonna blow up in the future.
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Yeah dude he is gonna be HUGE soon
His keyboard gonna blow up
You are all bots
mans is evolving so much he is recognizing the type of cameras and telling us where that could be
A few points at 8@16
It's interesting seeing his perspective, but as a brit I immediately could "tell" that was the UK. The yellow "AA" sign is the UK's emergency roadside service. The trees as the sides of the roads is very british with the type of foliage. Due to the steepness of the hills you are either looking at the peak district or devonshire. As the peak district is more tundra, this would be south of England.
great video :) it’d be cool seeing more videos like this, they’re nice to watch