The eyeballing game tests how good you are at lining things up. I got a 4.46 on my first try, but my hand slipped on one of them so I'm going to try again... Leave your best (or worst) score in the comments. (via core77)
Update: 4.34. I suck at parallelograms and triangle centers.
16.97. I have a type of dyslexia that makes this impossible for me to do. I have no visual/depth perception skills at all. I would read a book in the corner and refuse to to Tanograms in Kindergarten.
4.25
i suck at parallelograms and convergence
2.10. Convergence gives me the most trouble.
2.33. I wonder if there is any correlation to the supposed right and left hand side of the brain thinkers.
2.37. I blew the final Convergence test.
Just out of curiosity: What were your childhood/grade school interests? I'm interested to see if there's a correlation between the scores on this test and an interest in engineering or technical drawing...
2.66
left-handed (although using right-hand with mouse)
math and science interests, though not engineering or tech-drawing
I was doing good on my first one, until some sort of bug on Convergence gave me a score of "15385924.19 (lower is better)".
My second try was a more reasonable 1.90.
3.22
I did pretty well on convergences and right angles.
2.86 - I rock bisecting angles, parallelograms rock me.
5.27, including a hand slip that stuck me with a 38.2 on a triangle center. Manually calculating that out gives 3.62. I had one more big outlier, a 14, that I can't explain away with a hand slip, but if I calculate it out too, that's a 2.55.
So I played again, thinking to really put some effort in this time and get the score I "should've" gotten the first time.
I got a 5.52.
Erik, yup, the center of the triangle one is what messed me up as well.
5.62. My first parallelogram screwed me because I didn't quite get what was going on and missed the mark by 32. Otherwise, fairly good.
I'm having trouble with the mouse pointer getting in the way...I wish it disappeared while dragging.
I'm also a lefty who mouses righty. I've never been that keen on drawing or engineering. Design was always a struggle for me, lots of trial and error and never effortless. Probably explains why I'm smack in the middle of the eyeballing distribution.
3.10
Convergence=easiest. Centers = hardest, including bisecting the angle.
I was going to be an engineer or architect but changed my mind. Lots of math and lots of doodling.
I think I'd score way lower if I moused lefty (as a lefty), but as it is, I'm a 4.77 and totally crap with the convergence and triangle centres.
What threw me off at first on the triangle one was mistakenly interpreting it as "equidistant from vertices" rather than "equidistant from edges". Makes a huge difference.
2.21 -- first try, should be able to get it a lot better.
What threw me off at first on the triangle one was mistakenly interpreting it as "equidistant from vertices" rather than "equidistant from edges". Makes a huge difference.
3.89
I bent the convergence line on the first attempt, which netted me a 20 to throw everything off.
2.75; parallelograms ARE the hardest part.
3.79. Apparently I am no good at bisecting angles.
3.68
Hit all three center-circles at 0.0! But the parallelograms and triangle centers screwed me up.
Actually, I'm getting worse! Three scores under 3 but getting under 2 is really tough.
2.37...
3.61, this was fun. on one parallelogram, i got a 0, on another a 12.
i'm sending this to the art people at my office/
2.62 is my lowest of 4 games. I'm trying to get my husband to play, he's a landscape architect, and after all his time using AutoCAD I think he would be good at it.
2.24. Triangle center was tough.
2.21, on the parallelogram. Bisecting the angles was evil, I got a 111.1! :(
3.85 best. I can bisect the crap out of angles. But I can't make right angles... this should probably scuttle my woodworking plans.
3.6 on my first time all the way through. The range is more interesting to me than the average... I had a 0.2 but also an 8.5.
Tip: try yanking the positioner away from its starting position, toward the black lines, then slowly repositioning it into the ideal. I find it's far less distracting to start from nothing.
I'm thinking of turning the comments off because YOU'RE ALL SO MUCH BETTER THAN ME! BASTARDS!
hardest part is equidistant point in triangle....really nice test....
3.61. Would have been way lower had I not TOTALLY screwed up on the intersecting points. oh well. this was the best ive gotten so far.
2.86 - I have a long history of being able to notice off-by-1-pixel errors.
3.83 with a big boost when I got 0.0 on the right angle
8.66, I forgot what a parallelogram was at first..oops
8.07 - and I thought I had done great.
3.73. Mostly b/c I screwed up the bisect angles.
6.81. had a few 11s but I'm pretty good at angles. next time have moving targets!
4.61, I also suck at parallelograms (10.8) and triangle centers (16.6).
3.90. F%$*#ing parallelograms.
First Try: 3.08 - Midpoints were the worst for me (5.4-7.2), but bisect angles were the best (0.5-1.2). I also got a perfect 0.0 on my last right angle!
I'm a designer by trade. Hopefully that has helped me....
11.07 - I'm not sure I even understand the idea of convergence now.
2.36 in my second attempt... blew the last and third to last ones
2.41 on my first try! i did a great job at right angles (0.7, 0.3, 0.4). that was fun! i'm an engineer and have always enjoyed math and science, but i'm not sure that has a lot of bearing on how well you do. i actually think for some of the tasks (like convergent and angles), it has to do with how observant you are about the way some pixels look at certain line angles, etc...
4.03. I think that's not my cup of tea.
3.96, convergence and the equidistant point were my tough ones
Wow, 2.52 is my best try!
Got 3.0, the third part screwed me up so it was higher :/
2.91 ... midpoints on the line were my worst, followed probably by the triangle ones. I rocked at convergence and bisecting the angle
Overall score: 3.13
Parallelogram 13.0 2.2 1.0
Midpoint 1.0 4.5 2.8
Bisect angle 7.7 0.1 1.8
Triangle center 3.8 3.7 3.7
Circle center 2.2 2.2 2.2
Right angle 2.7 2.9 0.1
Convergence 0.0 6.0 2.2
I'm not sure what happened with that first one....
2.17 - Circle center was my worst
First (haphazard) try = 2.70. I think I now know why most designers HATE working with me. Be interesting to put a timer on the test, too.
Architect BTW.
wow what a great way to blow time at work and impress the boss at the same time...
3.01 on try # 2. I had 3 perfect 0.0's on the midpoints.
3.96 on second try. Parallelograms are a killer. I find the faster I go, the better my score is.
3.18 Another lefty mousing w/ right. Musician.
2.82 2nd try. Not bad for an old lady - 61 years old! I'll keep trying until I get in the top 10!
2.24 (1st try)
Lefty mousing w/ right. Engineer.
2.65 Designer. Like the previous poster, I wonder if that helps, or just depends on personality. I think I would suck at the color one or a music test.
2.88 first go. Averages were trending down quite a bit, but don't have the patience to do it again.
I did almost perfect on convergence and right angles, which I find interesting given my profession--RN in an ICU. I use a level at work to get many measurements (need to level right atrium of heart to pressure transducer) but must be able to eyeball level often in emergencies, and I need to have a good eye for angles in order to change the head of the bed angle (when I can't see the bed angle indicator). Just thought you'd all like another persepctive than that of designer or architect...
2.61 I noticed that I was getting really good in the beginning and then I must have gotten sloppy because it dropped sharply after one or two f-ups.
I can hang a picture real straight! 5.73
2.73 I totally blew one of the midpoints. fun stuff.
Not too bad for a first try
arallelogram 8.1 3.2 6.4
Midpoint 1.0 1.0 2.2
Bisect angle 1.0 4.1 0.8
Triangle center 4.3 1.4 5.8
Circle center 0.0 2.2 2.2
Right angle 0.0 2.1 0.7
Convergence 0.0 1.0 2.0
Average error: 2.36 (lower is better)
2.36 SteveT
Best scores on this computer:
2.36 SteveT
2.61 first try.
I can converge like nobody's business. Personally, I think my training as a professional potter gave me an unfair advantage. Always having to eyeball angles.
12.something with a trackpad mouse that I am not supposed to use (disc problems)
Still, it was the parallelograms that got me. No idea even after the green line came on.
Might try again later with this computer up front and a real mouse. Although it would not be possible to do better on center of circles and right angles so I think the paralleograms just got me whipped
2.26 on the third try.
3.1. I'm particularly *good* at parallelograms - I got two zeroes. Yay me!
The lowest I got was 0.0 by bisecting a line and the worst was 10.1 for parallelogram. Mostly I'm in the 2--5 range.
3.48.....now to try it after some wine.
3.05 busting the last convergence on my second try. More serious.
3.76 on a relatively quick first run where I finished with a 14 on the last convergence test.
3.43 -- had one crazy 9.2 or something, otherwise pretty consistently below 4.
2.40 pretty consistently.
Triangle is my worst by far.
I'm a graphic designer for a newspaper.
Scored a couple of ~7s on my very first parallelogram and midpoint tests, which brough me up to a 3.40 overall. Best of 2.00 so far.
3.50 (breakdown here.)
2.08 Yeah!!!!
Bisecting, convergence and right angles are simple enough. Centering the circle is actually easy enough, but man I had to look up equidstant centering before i got it right. Geometry class was a really long time ago. This is the only math my art brain is built for.
3.28.
Parallelograms and circle centers were elusive for me, but convergence and triangle centers made up for it.
4.20 on the first attempt. Became one with convergence and right angles, but finding the center of triangles and I really didn't hit it off too well.
4.52 ...
improved with subsequent sets.
2.36, largely thanks to my 0.0 in bisecting a line. Years and years of freestyle (guideless) Photoshop experience have finally paid off!
2.14 so far (4th try); 3.06 first attempt. This is addictive.
I'm an architecture student and was a math major in college, so I've always enjoyed working with geometric relationships like this, I guess. I sucked pretty bad at the parallelograms for a while but improved after I stopped overthinking them. The triangle centers are surprisingly intuitive, and convergence is sweet because of the extra level of checkability.
it's almost 2am. must stop. eyes going bleary. 3.40. parallelograms are the work of the devil.
Parallelogram 11.7 4.1 1.4
Midpoint 6.1 9.0 1.0
Bisect angle 4.1 4.4 7.1
Triangle center 3.3 6.1 6.6
Circle center 4.2 4.1 4.2
Right angle 0.6 0.8 1.8
Convergence 5.1 11.0 4.2
4.80
got the right angle down but somehow not when it's in a parallelogram...oh, is that because there ISN'T a right angle in a parallelogram? okay with the almost consistent offness of my circle centers. as always, thank you, thank you, thank you for you, kottke.org, etc.
3.38, largely due to a 15.8 on one bisection. Consistently bad at finding the midpoint, which I thought would be easiest.
2.93 - not so bad, but I spent time as a picture framer, so had a lot of practice at right angles!
1.97, which for about 30 seconds was #1 on the top 500 games.
I got this after about five attempts. My finger actually slipped off the mouse on the final right angle so i got a +4.2 but I saved with a 0.0 on the final convergence. I find the triangle centering and midpoint to be the easiest and the right angle and parallelogram to be hardest.
4.98. Parallelograms and triangle centers kicked my butt.
4.26 1st time
3.52 2nd time
Convergence is easy. The rest is hard, though it helps to swivel your head.
nerd/designer
1.97
lines through a mosaic of pixels that have the same stepping are either parallel or perpendicular. paying attention to this gives a big advantage -- been doing this in photoshop for some time.
crosshair cursor would be for yes.
i'd like to see:
- tests distilled and grouped into fundamental skill types (congruency, symmetry, etc) and the effects of focusing on positive vs negative space (ie: for me, bisecting segments is easy, angles are hard).
- tests covering more fundamental types, if there are any (really, i think everything reduces to congruency or symmetry).
- tested strengths/weaknesses cross-analyzed with testee's personality/thinking types and artistic tendencies.
4.14 -- I can't bisect angles very well.
It would be fun to have a version that has a time-bonus as well
Quicker positioning results in a lower score; max positioning time 10 sec.
A bit along the lines of the Traveler IQ challenge:
http://www.travelpod.com/traveler-iq
I Have suggested this to Matthias (Mr. Eyeballing :-)
Whoohoo, 2.83. Not. A. Designer.
4.34 - it's great to be average
3.97 parallelograms killed me
Parallelogram 0.0 1.0 1.0
Midpoint 0.0 0.0 1.0
Bisect angle 0.8 0.0 1.2
Triangle center 1.3 1.3 1.8
Circle center 1.0 1.4 0.0
Right angle 1.1 0.0 0.5
Convergence 1.4 1.4 0.0
Average error: 0.77
4th attempt =) just a wierdo with no life and like to win...
2.05 ... after some practice. I found triangle center and parallelogram pretty hard, angles easy.
Obviously there is some random unfairness in scoring the errors in distance as the figures are sometimes larger or smaller, which leads to an intrinsically larger or smaller pixel error for the same level of skill.
The site doesn't seem to remember my good scores...
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Mike Rundle35 16 200810:35AM
3.3 average... got a couple 0s but then a 14.7 miss that raised the average. Ouch!