Of course, repetition is also playing a very important role in how fast he is, as Rainbolt says he played GeoGuessr more than 10,000 times.

And he only needs 0.1 seconds for the whole thing, as you can see for yourselves in the video below. More specifically, Rainbolt is looking for things that tell apart one region from another – for example, he’s looking for road signs, the painted lines on the streets, the license plate colors, and poles to figure out where the image comes from. He believes anyone can do the same thing, as soon as they use a series of tricks that he also turns to in order to correctly provide the location of each image.

In a recent interview for Vice, however, Rainbolt says there’s no magic behind what he does. Rainbolt is probably the best player of GeoGuessr – an online game where players need to tell the location of random images collected from Street View. In other words, he can easily pinpoint a specific Street View image on the map faster than Google actually loads it. The 23-year-old man from Los Angeles can look at a Street View photo for just 0.1 seconds in order to be able to tell its location. Just drag the little yellow man to any location on the globe and you should be able to explore the place just like you’d be there.Īs it turns out, some people have turned this experience of exploring the world using Google Maps into an unusual hobby that later evolved into something totally unbelievable. With street-level imagery, Street View allows anyone out there to explore the world from the comfort of their own sofa.

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