# How good is your eyeballing skills? **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [October 7, 2008, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-good-is-your-eyeballing-skills/466865 "2008-10-07T17:15:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Fish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/bc8723/32.png) [@Fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fish)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2008, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-good-is-your-eyeballing-skills/466865/61 "2008-10-08T00:25:27Z")
Got a 4.18. ---
**Author:** ![aerodave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f08c70/32.png) [@aerodave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aerodave)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2008, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-good-is-your-eyeballing-skills/466865/62 "2008-10-08T00:37:01Z")
All right!! I just set the #1 best of the last 10,000! I got a 1.65 I always cheat at online games when I can…but I swear these are honest scores. I always thought I was good at eyeballing stuff. Now I’ve got some confirmation. ---
**Author:** ![PaperBlob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/58956e/32.png) [@PaperBlob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PaperBlob)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2008, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-good-is-your-eyeballing-skills/466865/63 "2008-10-08T00:43:37Z")
Your inaccuracy by category: Parallelogram 2.2 1.0 3.2 Midpoint 1.0 1.0 4.5 Bisect angle 1.5 0.1 2.2 Triangle center 2.7 1.8 3.5 Circle center 3.6 4.2 3.6 Right angle 2.6 1.3 0.1 Convergence 1.4 9.1 5.4 Average error: 2.67 (lower is better) Pretty good for a first try! ---
**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:** [October 8, 2008, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-good-is-your-eyeballing-skills/466865/64 "2008-10-08T01:38:10Z")
I got a 0.0 on the parallelogram, but it seems like my score is not getting better with practice. Maybe I’ll try again tomorrow. ---
**Author:** ![fessie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c37758/32.png) [@fessie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fessie)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2008, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-good-is-your-eyeballing-skills/466865/65 "2008-10-08T01:58:55Z")
Your inaccuracy by category: Parallelogram 10.2 5.1 2.8 Midpoint 5.8 4.5 2.2 Bisect angle 1.6 2.0 1.0 Triangle center 14.1 6.9 2.6 Circle center 1.0 5.1 7.0 Right angle 5.4 2.4 12.4 Convergence 2.8 2.2 2.0 Average error: 4.72 (lower is better) I’d’ve done a little better if my kids hadn’t been bumping into me w/their princesses and Planet Heroes, LOL. ---
**Author:** ![wunderkammer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/ed8c4c/32.png) [@wunderkammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wunderkammer)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2008, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-good-is-your-eyeballing-skills/466865/66 "2008-10-08T03:51:18Z")
Parallelogram 8.5 7.6 3.2 Midpoint 2.8 2.2 8.1 Bisect angle 1.5 2.8 3.3 Triangle center 6.6 10.5 11.1 Circle center 5.0 5.1 5.0 Right angle 0.4 0.1 0.9 Convergence 2.8 5.1 2.2 Average error: 4.51 I can confidently say that I’m better than all of you when it comes to the righting of angles. Otherwise, I kinda suck, though. ---
**Author:** ![Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hilarity_n.suze/32/6223_2.png) [@Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hilarity_N.Suze)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2008, 6:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-good-is-your-eyeballing-skills/466865/67 "2008-10-08T06:09:32Z")
I got a perfect score on the color test thingie, so I went into the thread and bragged. I’m just posting this so it doesn’t look like I only post in threads about things I’m good at. I did very, very badly. Apparently I don’t know what a parallelogram even is. So you guys build it, okay? I’ll pick out the paint. ---
**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:** [October 8, 2008, 7:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-good-is-your-eyeballing-skills/466865/68 "2008-10-08T07:27:39Z")
4.50, with a .1 being my best. My worst was only an 8… Joe ---
**Author:** ![jackdavinci](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackdavinci/32/3259_2.png) [@jackdavinci](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackdavinci)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2008, 9:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-good-is-your-eyeballing-skills/466865/69 "2008-10-08T09:53:26Z")
3.8, putting me barely ahead of the bell curve. My minimum error was something less than 1.0 and max was 8.6. ---
**Author:** ![jackdavinci](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackdavinci/32/3259_2.png) [@jackdavinci](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackdavinci)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2008, 9:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-good-is-your-eyeballing-skills/466865/70 "2008-10-08T09:54:37Z")
> [@Hilarity\_N.Suze](#): > > I got a perfect score on the color test thingie, so I went into the thread and bragged. I missed that one! Link? ---
**Author:** ![Grumman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/43a26b/32.png) [@Grumman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grumman)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2008, 10:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-good-is-your-eyeballing-skills/466865/71 "2008-10-08T10:11:25Z")
Your inaccuracy by category: Parallelogram 6.7 6.1 2.2 Midpoint 3.0 0.0 1.4 Bisect angle 3.6 1.8 0.8 Triangle center 7.0 0.6 2.3 Circle center 5.0 1.0 2.2 Right angle 0.9 3.8 1.9 Convergence 8.9 2.2 1.0 Average error: 2.97 (lower is better) ---
**Author:** ![Isamu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/7c8e57/32.png) [@Isamu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Isamu)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2008, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-good-is-your-eyeballing-skills/466865/72 "2008-10-08T15:22:16Z")
2.35 Newjack is my name up on the high score list. I got 0 error for one of the find the circle center ones. ---
**Author:** ![Gary\_Robson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gary_robson/32/3448_2.png) [@Gary\_Robson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gary_Robson)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2008, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-good-is-your-eyeballing-skills/466865/73 "2008-10-08T15:24:37Z")
2.77 - that puts me on the top ten in the “Best of the last 500 games.” I seem to have the most difficulty with the mouse pointer throwing off my estimations. I wish the game turned off the pointer. ---
**Author:** ![Dead\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9fc29f/32.png) [@Dead\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dead_Cat)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2008, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-good-is-your-eyeballing-skills/466865/74 "2008-10-08T16:41:35Z")
2.01 on first attempt, one error of 0.0, several between 0.1 and 0.3. ---
**Author:** ![Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hilarity_n.suze/32/6223_2.png) [@Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hilarity_N.Suze)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2008, 6:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-good-is-your-eyeballing-skills/466865/75 "2008-10-09T06:18:43Z")
> [@jackdavinci](#): > > I missed that one! Link? [How good of an eye for color do you have?](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=482690) ---
**Author:** ![Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hilarity_n.suze/32/6223_2.png) [@Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hilarity_N.Suze)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2008, 6:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-good-is-your-eyeballing-skills/466865/76 "2008-10-09T06:25:10Z")
> [@InvisibleWombat](#): > > 2.77 - that puts me on the top ten in the “Best of the last 500 games.” > > I seem to have the most difficulty with the mouse pointer throwing off my estimations. I wish the game turned off the pointer. Very good! I got “Best score on this computer.” :mad: Apparently no one has ever played this game on this particular computer before. 18.11 in case you were wondering, with the worst scores on convergence and parallelograms. ---
**Author:** ![Bootis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e8c25b/32.png) [@Bootis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bootis)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2008, 9:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-good-is-your-eyeballing-skills/466865/77 "2008-10-09T09:54:57Z")
1.42! #1 of last 10,000!! I never get high scores to anything. I might have discovered my best skill- I wish this was a test to get a job. I might finally be hired for one. ---
**Author:** ![Panurge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/fbc32d/32.png) [@Panurge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Panurge)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2008, 10:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-good-is-your-eyeballing-skills/466865/78 "2008-10-09T10:31:00Z")
2.74 - with a few 0.0s, but all in different categories. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Tof](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/cdc98d/32.png) [@The\_Tof](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Tof)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2008, 11:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-good-is-your-eyeballing-skills/466865/79 "2008-10-09T11:44:14Z")
I really suck at the parallelagram. No idea why, but I never seem to be even close. I can’t seem to get my score to average below 4, in large part because I can’t seem to ever get a good score on it. Strange. (And yes- I know what a parallelagram is supposed to be) ---
**Author:** ![ivan\_astikov](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/58f4c7/32.png) [@ivan\_astikov](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivan_astikov)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2008, 12:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-good-is-your-eyeballing-skills/466865/80 "2008-10-09T12:06:30Z")
My best score yet. If I could have stopped after the first round… > [@](#): > > Your inaccuracy by category: > > Parallelogram 0.0 2.8 6.3 > Midpoint 0.0 3.6 8.2 > Bisect angle 1.1 0.5 0.1 > Triangle center 2.3 2.4 6.7 > Circle center 2.2 2.0 2.2 > Right angle 0.8 1.9 1.9 > Convergence 1.0 2.2 2.8 > > Average error: 2.43 (lower is better) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-good-is-your-eyeballing-skills/466865.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-good-is-your-eyeballing-skills/466865.md?page=5)