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For those that struggle, the android app "alarm clock Xtreme" is excellent. You can set tasks you have to do before snoozing. Both maths questions and having to scan a barcode or tag are options.
Combined with the "sonic bomb" alarm clock, it's an extremely effective combination. (For both you and all your neighbours within a few 100m)
I had this for a while, and eventually just got really good at doing math without fully waking up.
That's when you move on to the barcode scanner. Just stick it in the kitchen and you have to get up.
That works great until you go on vacation. Then you learn to just turn your phone off in your sleep
It's better used as a training aid. It's ok to turn your phone off, if you wake up to find yourself standing in the kitchen/corridor feeling confused. You're still out of bed.
I have one of these apps, and they really helped. I taped a QR code to my bathroom door and set the alarm to give me 1min to scan it, which is about the time I need to get up and zombie-walk over there. I thought I would eventually just cheat my way around it, but there really aren't all that many QR codes laying around at my place, and force-killing the app is a bigger hassle than stopping the alarm the regular way. So it stuck, and I'm pretty happy with it.
I used to use one that measures your sleep cycle somehow, and wakes you up when you're in you're most wakeful state within a certain amount of time before your actual alarm is set. So if you set your alarm at 6, but the app sees that you're starting to be in a less restful state at 5:45, it'll make you up at 5:45
It's not a free app, unfortunately.
I used one previously. Unfortunately, it just trained me to lie very still when I woke up.
I can do math in my sleep. I do remember I had one where you had to mash the escaping snooze button really rapidly, it had a difficulty setting even. Still not enough.