A study suggests that playing a game like Super Monkey Ball for 20 minutes before surgery can help prevent surgical errors from happening. This sounds about right, because video games is all about hand and eye coordination, which is right in line with surgery. So next time you go under the knife, ask your surgeon if he wants a quick time trial of Super Monkey Ball.

Researchers found that surgeons who played video games immediately before the drill completed it an average of 11 seconds faster than those who did not. Any errors committed during the training lengthened the time it took to complete the task — indicating that faster finishers made fewer mistakes.