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Message: <blockquote data-quote="TwoSix" data-source="post: 8038196" data-attributes="member: 205">Yea, I've never seen that either.  Even using pip-dice, I've never seen other players automatically aggregate the pips into a total.  They always say "OK, 6 and 4 is 10, plus 2 makes 12".  Granted, once there's more than 3 dice or so, most players at my tables just make me add the dice, because they know I CAN do it in the proverbial eyeblink.  But I play with a total of 15 other people regularly and none of them can subconsciously aggregate pip dice.  I know 3 dice keeps people in the normal subitizing range and the pip arrangement creates recognizable patterns, so I imagine for most people pip dice are faster than number dice, but I can't see it being faster than read and compare 2 numbers under 20.  Or at least, both are in the few hundred ms range such that worrying about efficiency isn't a concern.</blockquote>