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Test Your Visual Acuity with the Eyeballing Game

By Rain Noe - February 15, 2013

in Object Culture

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.)

Play it here.

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pat

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4.50/ 82 as pat
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cw

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there's 20 mins of my life I'm not getting back. cool game.
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Alan P

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2.90 / 96s as Alan P
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I scored a 2.30 / 178 s marked it as Core77reader.
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scb

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half the time is spent/wasted clicking the start button... hmmm. did not fare so well
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James Patrick

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I got a 4.56/226.23 . I'm always impressed by Matt's work.
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I'm also a sucker for the 2-point perspective error in case of the parallelograms. I guess that's just professional deformation.
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