Have you ever found a really annoying recaptcha that completely bores you? Well, we’ve got the solution to that! We created BeatCaptcha which uses the power of music to make your boredom disappear.
Inspiration: Have you ever found a really annoying recaptcha that completely bores you out. Well we’ve got the solution to that! We created a captcha designed for you. This captcha is a sort of minigame where you have to click dots that align with the beat of the song. This will trains your aim and reaction speed, and also give your mind a break. This will turn the annoying task into a fun minigame.
What it does: You have a few seconds to click the dot before it disappears. The goal is to get all 10 dots before they disappear. It will play a short tune if you correctly click on all the dots. This can also be used to easily detect bots, because bots will have an irregular mouse movement when clicking on the dots. The mouse will instantly lock onto the target and flick towards it, similar to aim locking. If the targets mouse movements are suspicious, we will give them another recaptcha which includes a moving target. If their mouse movements continue being irregular, they are most likely a bot.
How we built it: Using nimble start and a mixture of JS, CSS, & HTML.
Challenges we ran into: It was hard to create essentially a game in a browser format without a dedicated game creation tool like unity.
Accomplishments that we're proud of: We are proud of completing out first hackathon and reaching the deadline with little to no coding knowledge.
What we learned: We learned how hackathons work and how to complete code projects with a set deadline.
What's next for BeatCaptcha: Beat captcha can be used to book tickets to music concerts, and customs levels can be made that match up with songs specific to the concert to add a personal touch, while still preventing bots.
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