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Agschmid

(28,749 posts)
Fri Feb 15, 2013, 09:03 PM Feb 2013

Test Your Visual Acuity...



ETA: The link http://woodgears.ca/eyeball/index.html

I got 7.14 and it took me 87 seconds... how will you do?

Speaking of eyeballing, Matthias Wandel took a break from woodworking long enough to create The Eyeballing Game. It's a simple, in-browser test of visual acuity that rates both your eyeballing accuracy and your speed.

Anyone from carpenters to designers to architects—basically anyone who deals with creating lines for a living—ought give it a go. Warning: A subset of you are going to find it extremely addictive and/or become hellbent on improving your score. (I thought I was pretty good, but I'm consistently getting in the 4.- range. I also discovered that I rock at determining a dead-accurate right angle and suck at parallelograms, as I keep subconsciously trying to turn them into planes with accurate two-point perspective.)


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Test Your Visual Acuity... (Original Post) Agschmid Feb 2013 OP
no link /nt TheMadMonk Feb 2013 #1
Valid complaint! Agschmid Feb 2013 #3
Fun, found the link.... uppityperson Feb 2013 #2
And how does one find The Eyeballing Game? Callmecrazy Feb 2013 #4
Links are above... Agschmid Feb 2013 #5
I got 6.27 in 301 secs Callmecrazy Feb 2013 #6
1st try- 128.29 seconds, score 5.02 WhoIsNumberNone Feb 2013 #7
Nice job! Agschmid Feb 2013 #9
5.31....160.03 seconds.... Wounded Bear Feb 2013 #8
3.92 in 85.84, but that was my 4th try. Gorp Feb 2013 #10
I'd also play forever! Good results n/t Agschmid Feb 2013 #13
I was bad. I gave the URL to my youngest (math geek). Gorp Feb 2013 #14
Overall score: 12.78 Ptah Feb 2013 #11
I suck at eyeballing: antiquie Feb 2013 #12
Crap, I didn't notice the timer! Duer 157099 Feb 2013 #15
5.0 in 139.24 seconds nuxvomica Feb 2013 #16
My what acuity you have.... Agschmid Feb 2013 #17
3.81 in 115.53 secs, 1st try ElboRuum Feb 2013 #18
5.05 ... surrealAmerican Feb 2013 #19
3.39 in 160.23 Orrex Feb 2013 #20
The triangle center was hard... Agschmid Feb 2013 #21

Callmecrazy

(3,065 posts)
6. I got 6.27 in 301 secs
Fri Feb 15, 2013, 09:48 PM
Feb 2013

By the graph that's below average.
Strange because I have a pretty good eye for level and plumb.

Wounded Bear

(58,670 posts)
8. 5.31....160.03 seconds....
Fri Feb 15, 2013, 11:10 PM
Feb 2013

These tired old eyes still remember some of my old engineering skills.



Test me again in a couple of weeks.

 

Gorp

(716 posts)
10. 3.92 in 85.84, but that was my 4th try.
Sat Feb 16, 2013, 12:58 PM
Feb 2013

Third try was 4.36 in 106.15 and the first two were 5.something in 120+ seconds. I had to close the window or I'd still be playing at 11:30 tonight and have a really worn out forefinger.

 

antiquie

(4,299 posts)
12. I suck at eyeballing:
Sat Feb 16, 2013, 01:19 PM
Feb 2013

Your inaccuracy by category:

Parallelogram 50.1 35.3 44.6
Midpoint s 8.6 11.1 14.5
Bisect angle 14.3 5.7 1.5
Triangle center 38.5 0.9 25.7
Circle center 0.5 1.6 5.5
Right angle 0.2 0.6 1.0
Convergence 82.9 27.1 68.2

Average error: 20.88 (lower is better)
Time taken: 154.5

Duer 157099

(17,742 posts)
15. Crap, I didn't notice the timer!
Sat Feb 16, 2013, 05:37 PM
Feb 2013

Off to try again, this time as quickly as possible... this is so much fun and probably good for the brain/eyes.

surrealAmerican

(11,362 posts)
19. 5.05 ...
Sat Feb 16, 2013, 06:16 PM
Feb 2013

... not so good. I struggle a lot with these trifocals. I used to be good at this sort of thing.

Orrex

(63,215 posts)
20. 3.39 in 160.23
Sat Feb 16, 2013, 06:28 PM
Feb 2013

I was great at bisecting the angle, finding the point of convergence, and finding the center of the circle.

I totally sucked at finding the triangles' centers, though.


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