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Aside from the connection between intelligence and choice reaction time (the bread and butter of many games), I think IQ probably impacts gaming ability in the same way it impacts vocabulary. A dull person can read as much as they want, they'll probably still have a low vocabulary because they don't parse as much information from reading (and they also tend to have lower memories, so the benefits taper off to some extent). So I'd expect the relationship between hours and ability to be higher in more intelligent cohorts

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> Hand-eye coordination is clearly a large factor in why some players are better at games than others, though it’s difficult to measure empirically. This is probably as big of a factor as intelligence, perhaps even more so.

Eye tracker exist, combined with mouse movement or keyboard key pressing, and with screen recording you could test it

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