do you ever get captchas wrong?

[© tweed]

I just did but thankfully it didn't reset my 30-second wait clock.

[Grumpier Than Thou]

Sometimes.

[Nichlemn]

Constantly. I usually need three or more attempts.

[Bacon King]

They can certainly be a bit difficult sometimes:

[Redalgo]

I have trouble with them sometimes - especially when there is ambiguity about case-sensitivity.

[Grumpier Than Uncle Joe]

Some websites have killer captchas......others not so bad......but hell yeah I get a lot wrong.

[tpfkaw]

I often have to refresh them a few times and occasionally get them wrong.  They generally range from trivial to completely incomprehensible.

[Oakvale]

Regularly, yeah. I hate those things - my username was, if I recall correctly, from a captcha.

[opebo]

Captions?

[angus]

Captions?

CAPTCHA (stands for "Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart") is a sequence of alphanumeric characters in twisted, weird, or melty fonts that are hard to read and that you must type into a little box when you are ordering something on-line.  I've seen them for years, but didn't know what they were called until someone told me a few months ago on this very forum.  And on that day I also learned that they were invented by an autistic mathematician, Alan Turing.  Gotta love that irony. 

They are sometimes hard to read, but I can usually decipher them.

[Antonio the Sixth]

Constantly. I'm starting to think these things have been invented only to piss people off.

[Middle-aged Europe]

Yes, all the time. Captchas are my nemesis.

[angus]

I got one today that was a little different.  I was trying to get free piano sheetmusic for Nightswimming in G-major.  It's an REM song, and I heard it and was trying to pick it out on the piano and decided to look it up.  It had a box that said rabbit.  Then there was a multiple-choice question.  "Click on the word below that matches the word in the box."  Or something like that, and the choices were rabbit, paper, and girl.  I clicked on rabbit.  Anyway, then it took me to a laywer's website.  Dammit.  So frustrating, I see "R.E.M. - Nightswimming Piano Music Sheet" and click on it, and after a multiple-choice question, I get taken to a lawyer's website.  WTF? 

Well, anyway, I finally found a sample page.  The first of seven pages of the music can be printed out for free from a site that sells the sheet music.  I'm too cheap to buy it, but I think I can figure the rest of it out if I have the first page.