silicon on 28 September 2009
When you predict your reaction time is a lot faster. You anticipate moves and react to them accordingly...
Something you may have heard of is beginner's luck. It happens because skilled players tend to predict and anticipate other players moves. At a certain skill level, players predict other players to also behave as a skilled player might. In certain cases a skilled player expects a skilled move, and a beginner does something a beginner would do which fools the skilled player and earns the beginner a win or a kill.
Summary... thinking is better than not thinking. But it's fun sometimes to turn the brain off and smash, shoot, blow stuff up, etc.
