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Why Sharp Corners Destroy Your Speed

Stars punish speed with brutal geometry. Narrow tips and deep angles force cleaner movement than simple squares or circles.

Paint the Star is a speed-and-precision challenge where you must cover every pixel of a sharp five-point star. The timer starts on your first stroke and stops only at 100% coverage. Every brush mark outside the star adds time penalties.

Sharp corners are harder than squares because your movement has to decelerate and re-accelerate at every tip. The inner concave angles are even worse: they trap wide strokes and punish overshooting with penalties.

Scoring is simple: your final time equals raw time plus penalties, and lower is better. Only your best run counts on the leaderboard, so clean control beats reckless speed.

Tips to rank higher: slow down at the tips, use short strokes near the edges, and fill the center last so you can correct the tricky concave corners first.

Ready to test yourself? Play Paint the Star at https://iambored.fun/x/paint-the-star, then check the Top 50 at https://iambored.fun/x/paint-the-star/leaderboard.