Get distracted and have fun: 11 interesting sites that won't let you get bored

We all love to occasionally be distracted and pass the time a little, be it at work, waiting for a meeting or just at home in the evening. Life hacker collected 11 sites that will help you with this.

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100 Stars

This Chrome site opens up interactive visualizations of countless stars in the Milky Way. Just scroll with the mouse wheel to zoom in or out. You can also change it using the slider on the right side of the screen.

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Museum of Endangered Sounds

It is an online library of nostalgic sounds that for many may be associated with childhood, adolescence or other periods of life. There's the crackle of a vinyl record, the click of a typewriter, an old Nokia phone ring, a Pac-Man ringtone, and more. One press turns the sound on, and another - turns off. Sounds can be combined to create pleasant background noise.

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Scale Sequencer

A primitive sequencer on a web page. With it, you can create electronic ringtones right in your browser. Just fill in the cells on the matrix by drawing "sound patterns" and select the tone of the melody.

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TypeRacer

On the page of this resource, you can compete with other users in the typing speed. A racing car will be an indicator of the progress of each participant - the more characters of a given text you type, the closer your car will be to the finish line. Typos and mistakes are corrected through Backspace and redial. Works in both English and Russian.

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Virtocean

This is a site for those who miss the sound of the surf, bursts of waves and the cry of seagulls. All sounds on the site are related to the sea. You can create your own set by choosing the volume of each effect, and leave it as a background for sleeping or relaxing.

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Internet Radio

It is a live broadcast of more than 23 thousand radio stations from all over the world. You can find a suitable wave by genre of music or by searching by name. For each station, the number of listeners, bit rate, playing song and a direct link to the site are displayed.

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EarthCam Gigapixel Panorama

This is the most detailed panorama of New York, which was captured from the Empire State Building using a robotic camera. With the mouse wheel, you can zoom in and out, and by clicking and dragging, you can change the viewing angle.

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Little alchemy

On this site, from ordinary elements, you can create more complex designs, up to life. Feel like a great creator. You can create 580 elements in the game, but they are very difficult to find, so you will not be bored.

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iamthecu.be

Rubik's cube online. You can twist it with the mouse, by pressing and dragging the desired faces. If you cannot build it yourself, you can click on the automatic build button to see the correct sequence of actions with a minimum number of steps.

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Quick, Draw!

A site based on a neural network from Google, which offers to play a kind of "Crocodile". Your task is to have time to draw a given object in 20 seconds. During this time, the program should offer options.

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The deep sea

A very long page on the Neal.fun portal, which allows you to visually assess the depth of the world's oceans and find out which inhabitants can be found at different distances from the surface of the water. Below you will find the Challenger Abyss - the deepest point on the Earth's surface, located in the western Pacific Ocean in the Mariana Trench.

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