# Do You Have "The Eye"; Knowing If A Picture Is Crooked On The Wall Without Measuring? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [January 15, 2007, 7:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-the-eye-knowing-if-a-picture-is-crooked-on-the-wall-without-measuring/388042 "2007-01-15T07:09:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2007, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-the-eye-knowing-if-a-picture-is-crooked-on-the-wall-without-measuring/388042/21 "2007-01-15T23:31:58Z")
Yup - my husband and I both have “the eye.” Our basement would drive you ultra-straighteners crazy, too - it was renovated by, we suspect, do-it-yourself amateurs or very, very bad professionals, with no 90 degree angles in it. It sort of looks like a Dr. Seuss house. ---
**Author:** ![lizardling](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f4b2a3/32.png) [@lizardling](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lizardling)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2007, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-the-eye-knowing-if-a-picture-is-crooked-on-the-wall-without-measuring/388042/22 "2007-01-15T23:35:36Z")
Ayup. I don’t know that I’m as exact as some of you folks, but I do my part for straightness and twiddling with pictures. ---
**Author:** ![Yorikke](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yorikke/32/4335_2.png) [@Yorikke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yorikke)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2007, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-the-eye-knowing-if-a-picture-is-crooked-on-the-wall-without-measuring/388042/23 "2007-01-16T16:16:47Z")
I suppose it depends how off it is. I consider myself good at eyeballing that type of thing, but not a wunderkind… Joe ---
**Author:** ![Billdo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/billdo/32/315_2.png) [@Billdo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Billdo)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2007, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-the-eye-knowing-if-a-picture-is-crooked-on-the-wall-without-measuring/388042/24 "2007-01-16T21:50:37Z")
I can, with better than 75% accuracy, tell immediately if a picture is even as little as 20 or 30 degrees crooked. ---
**Author:** ![AskNott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asknott/32/5790_2.png) [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2007, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-the-eye-knowing-if-a-picture-is-crooked-on-the-wall-without-measuring/388042/25 "2007-01-16T22:31:32Z")
Not any more. About twenty years ago, I looked up during a racquetball game, and the room looked slightly inflated, pillowed. I asked my eye doc, and he said I had moved into such an extreme prescrption that I’d have to accept that effect. I can’t see straight lines. I have 5 kinds of levels, but when I have to eyeball a long line, I need an assistant. I have a line level, but setting up the stakes and string is a hassle. I’ll spring for a laser someday. ---
**Author:** ![Harmonious\_Discord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/74df32/32.png) [@Harmonious\_Discord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harmonious_Discord)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2007, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-the-eye-knowing-if-a-picture-is-crooked-on-the-wall-without-measuring/388042/26 "2007-01-17T01:31:46Z")
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