My life would have been mediocre is based on data collected from a computer program that measures how fast people think in different languages they know. This piece focuses on a student who immigrated from Lebanon 5 years ago. He speaks Arabic (Lebanese), French, and English. The language test is fairly straight forward: an image appears on the screen, and he names it aloud. The computer records the response and records the elapsed time between the moment the image appeared on the screen the moment he started speaking. He completed 180 items in all three languages (540 in total).

This installation is constructed of 540 knitted pieces (180 per language). Each knitted piece corresponds to a word from the language test and is reflected on the label attached at the end of the piece. The knitting time is directly proportional to the reaction time (knitting time in minutes: reaction time in miliseconds / 100; example: 8 minutes: 832 ms / 100). Each label contains the word (in the corresponding language), the person's reaction time (in miliseconds), and the amount of time I spent knitting it (in minutes).

The experiment is available online at: http://rekaszepesvari.me/exp/