How to win at Swing Copters (or at least double your score)

Swing Copters, the new game by Flappy Bird creator Dong Nguyen, is out and it’s ridiculously hard. It’s so tough, that after playing it for quite a while our high score stood at the very miserable… 1.

In the game, you navigate a heli-hat equipped cute character through tiny openings and swinging hammers by tapping anywhere on the screen to change direction. Tap, tap, tap, and crash. That’s the usual way the game progresses, and frustration quickly builds up.



So how do you win at Swing Copters (where by win we mean ‘score more than 1’)? You need a tactic, or a simple rule. That ...