Flippy Bit

Flippy Bit is a mobile app developed in collaboration with Russian psychologist Kateryna Afinogenova to test her study on children’s natural talent for bitwise operations and conversions to hexadecimals. The app is designed to challenge users’ abilities to perform bitwise operations and hexadecimal conversions, with the goal of promoting mental agility and cognitive development. The app is available for download on the App Store and Google Play.

1. Flippy Bit is a mobile app developed by Q42 in collaboration with Russian psychologist Kateryna Afinogenova.
2. The app is designed to test Afinogenova’s recent study on children’s natural talent for bitwise operations and conversions to hexadecimals.
3. The study involved 420 children who showed a natural ability to perform bitwise operations and convert binary to hexadecimal.
4. The app includes a game where users must flip a bit to match a target hexadecimal value.
5. The game is designed to test users’ ability to perform bitwise operations and conversions to hexadecimal.

* Flippy Bit
* psychologist
* Kateryna Afinogenova
* bitwise operations
* hexadecimals
* children
* bitshift
* binary numbers
* Scientific World News
* collaboration

Flippy Bit And The Attack Of The Hexadecimals From Base 16

Hi

We at Q42 have teamed up with Russian psychologist Kateryna Afinogenova to create this experiment to test her recent study in which a group of 420 kids were shown to have a natural talent for doing bitwise operations and conversions to hexadecimals.

“Seven percent of the test group could bitshift” she said to Scientific World News in an exclusive interview, which caught our nerdy attention. Especially the following statement:

“While adults have trouble with binary numbers, from around the age of two, children can not only calculate on a binary scale, but even translate from binary to hexadecimal – and back.”

We were able to contact her and collaborate remotely on this experimental game that allows kids to literally do that conversion. Afinogenova requested to omit a tutorial to further emphasize the adoption difficulty between adults and children.

We were amazed by the results. You can be amazed too! Play the game and find out!