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Matlab script if you're as crazy as I am and want to calculate it for your own browser:

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function cars(width, maxTime, v1, v2, v3, tolerance)

t = 0 : 1 : maxTime;
p1 = width * ( (v1 * t / width) - floor (v1 * t / width));
p2 = width * ( (v2 * t / width) - floor (v2 * t / width));
p3 = width * ( (v3 * t / width) - floor (v3 * t / width));

for i = 1 : maxTime;
    if (abs(p1(i) - p2(i)) < tolerance && abs(p2(i) - p3(i)) < tolerance && abs(p1(i) - p3(i)) < tolerance)
        disp (i);
    end
end

%plot(t, p1, t, p2, t, p3);

end

This is probably possible to solve by using a couple of math equations. According to the page source, the "cars" move at rates of 9, -11, and 7 pixels per jump (setting left as the positive direction).

If each car is reduced to the size of one pixel, the position can be expressed by a sawtooth function.
p(t) = d ( (v / d)t - floor( (v / d) * t))
d = width of window (pixels)
v = car velocity (pixels/jump)
t = number of jumps (jumps)

I could be wrong though.

You're certainly on the right track. Keep going!

Awesome!

So I guess then that means that the individual position functions would be:
p1(t) = d ( 9t/d - floor(9t/d) )
p2(t) = d ( -11t/d - floor(-11t/d) )
p3(t) = d ( 7t/d - floor(7t/d) )

Measured d = 954 px and timed the period of each car to be 9, 8, and 12 seconds, meaning that the jump rate is about 10 jumps per second. Each holbs-mobile is roughly 50 pixels long.

Putting all of these numbers together in Matlab shows that (on my browser) the cars will align at around jump #478. This corresponds to roughly 47 seconds after the page loads:

This actually occurred 43 seconds after the page loaded, but the difference can be accounted for in the error in measuring the jump rate.

This is probably possible to solve by using a couple of math equations. According to the page source, the "cars" move at rates of 9, -11, and 7 pixels per jump (setting left as the positive direction).

If each car is reduced to the size of one pixel, the position can be expressed by a sawtooth function.
p(t) = d ( (v / d)t - floor( (v / d) * t))
d = width of window (pixels)
v = car velocity (pixels/jump)
t = number of jumps (jumps)

I could be wrong though.

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>.>

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"Downstream" from Braid
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W7UVfoXQT6w
"Science is Fun" from Portal 2
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sER1rSv5bd8
"Exile Vilify" from Portal 2
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8Ke8mhZNus
"TRAUMA" from Ghost Trick
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9ppkV4QXR8
"Castle" from Persona 4
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCaAiefczHE
"Clockwork" from Castlevania III
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46bPUSYE1is
"Investigation Start" from Time Hollow
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4HBwkR_Etho
"Ice Fortress" from Cave Story+
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-RdTjI5bmg
"Twister" from The World Ends With You
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d58sfK8DgM8
"The Sun Rises" from Okami
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ya3yxTbkh5s
"Red Carpet Extend-o-Matic" from World of Goo
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ku4eLhgsEE0
"Revived Power" from Shadow of the Colossus
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=147rTHgKmXY

A good way to practice with chopsticks is to pick up peanut m&ms. That's actually how I learned how to use them.

In college I went through a phase where I ate -everything- with chopsticks, including rice. It's slower than with a fork but surprisingly easy once you get the hang of it.

So. It has come to this.

I remember coding webpages with my sister when she was 14. Those were fun times. ^_^

HTML is a good place to start. What's wrong with the tutorials on w3schools?

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Of course I didn't get any profit from this and it's actually kind of nice that those resources didn't go to waste, but I thought I might as well mention it since it could be a bug.

Rainbow Dash costume?

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