# 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:** 14\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2008, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-good-is-your-eyeballing-skills/466865/81 "2008-10-09T13:35:14Z")
First try: Your inaccuracy by category: Parallelogram 7.2 8.5 2.8 Midpoint 10.0 10.6 4.1 Bisect angle 1.5 2.2 1.6 Triangle center 5.8 2.0 3.2 Circle center 7.1 6.1 6.1 Right angle 1.3 2.8 1.5 Convergence 3.6 3.2 2.8 Average error: 4.48 Second try: Your inaccuracy by category: Parallelogram 7.2 7.0 1.0 Midpoint 8.5 6.0 1.4 Bisect angle 0.1 2.2 2.8 Triangle center 2.4 3.0 0.8 Circle center 8.9 2.2 2.2 Right angle 0.9 0.2 0.0 Convergence 3.0 4.0 2.8 Average error: 3.17 Midpoint is my personal Achilles’ heel, but I knew that already from my habit of always trying to crease drink straws exactly at the middle. ---
**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 9, 2008, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-good-is-your-eyeballing-skills/466865/82 "2008-10-09T18:31:38Z")
I don’t seem to be getting better with practice. Oh well. Back to Cubis. 🙂 ---
**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, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-good-is-your-eyeballing-skills/466865/83 "2008-10-09T20:49:44Z")
3.81 while slightly drunk. Not too shabby, I think. ---
**Author:** ![panamajack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/47e85d/32.png) [@panamajack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panamajack)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2008, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-good-is-your-eyeballing-skills/466865/84 "2008-10-09T21:09:39Z")
I got 3.52 my first try. Then I tried to do each one within a few seconds, and got 5.83 the second time. I’d love to see this with an actual 5 second timer on it. I also kind of wonder what changes to the interface would do (different pointer, eliminate click&drag, change the colors). ---
**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2008, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-good-is-your-eyeballing-skills/466865/85 "2008-10-09T22:55:43Z")
I’m really good at the line convergence (a 0, several 1s and 2s), finding the center of the circle, and bisecting the angle. I’m average at the triangle and finding the center of the line. I suck at making the parallelogram and for some reason I REALLY suck at making the right angles. I’m way wide every time so at least I’m consistently bad in the same way :). I think this is one of those games that having a real mouse would help. Touch pad really seems to kill accuracy in these things. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2008, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-good-is-your-eyeballing-skills/466865/86 "2008-10-09T23:22:57Z")
I don’t seem to be that good. Your inaccuracy by category: Parallelogram 4.1 10.0 25.6 Midpoint 5.0 5.1 2.8 Bisect angle 9.4 11.6 1.1 Triangle center 2.6 1.1 8.0 Circle center 8.6 4.5 2.2 Right angle 0.3 0.1 4.7 Convergence 2.0 6.4 3.6 Average error: \*\*5.66 \*\*(lower is better) ---
**Author:** ![VarlosZ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d78d45/32.png) [@VarlosZ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VarlosZ)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2008, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-good-is-your-eyeballing-skills/466865/87 "2008-10-09T23:52:52Z")
3.74 Best was a 0.5 on right angle and bisect angle, worst was a 10.0 on parallelogram. Overall the midpoint was the hardest for me (average of about 6.56). Bisect and convergence were way easy. ---
**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2008, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-good-is-your-eyeballing-skills/466865/88 "2008-10-10T03:44:43Z")
First average: **3.66** Best individual: **.01** on Right Angle. ---
**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2008, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-good-is-your-eyeballing-skills/466865/89 "2008-10-10T03:51:58Z")
Second average: **2.88** Best Individual: **0.0** on the Parallelogram and Convergence. Apparently the center of the triangles are killing me. ---
**Author:** ![neutron\_star](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/51bf81/32.png) [@neutron\_star](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/neutron_star)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2008, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-good-is-your-eyeballing-skills/466865/90 "2008-10-10T04:38:09Z")
> [@N.Sane](#): > > Idid you notice that if you try to replay, it skips the parallelogram? Nope, not for me. I scored 8.something on my first try, then gave the link to my friend here at work (our job is incredibly boring). I stood behind her and watched her blow right through the whole thing in a minute or two, and end up with a 2.33 on her very first round! :eek: > [@Bootis](#): > > 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. She saw that score on the leaderboard, and said, “Damn! That loser must play this thing all day!” 😃 ETA: Just to be clear, I’m definitely not calling you a loser and totally didn’t mean it that way. She was just kidding. ---
**Author:** ![Pyper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Pyper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pyper)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2008, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-good-is-your-eyeballing-skills/466865/91 "2008-10-11T23:27:10Z")
Average 3.45 on my third try. Best was 0.0 on find the center of the circle. (It was a fluke, I wasn’t especially good at it on the other tries.) My worst category was right angle. Finally, one of these games I’m actually good at! (I was very disappointed that I was only average at that color spectrum game posted a while ago, as I am a painter.) ---
**Author:** ![Sitnam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2008, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-good-is-your-eyeballing-skills/466865/92 "2008-10-11T23:35:17Z")
8.8, but I clicked the mouse button off accidentally a few times. ---
**Author:** ![nd\_n8](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/439d5e/32.png) [@nd\_n8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nd_n8)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2008, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-good-is-your-eyeballing-skills/466865/93 "2008-10-11T23:57:49Z")
3.77 I got a couple of 0.0 on the 90 degrees but was terrible at finding the center of a triangle. ---
**Author:** ![5-HT](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/5/f19dbf/32.png) [@5-HT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/5-HT)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2008, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-good-is-your-eyeballing-skills/466865/94 "2008-10-12T02:47:17Z")
I used to be pretty good at eyeballing the weight of various powders in small baggies, but I don’t know if that would help with this game. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-good-is-your-eyeballing-skills/466865.md?page=4)