I scored about a five, which puts me in with most of the herd. I was best at judging right angles (typically close to a one) and splitting them, and worst at judging distance (centering the line and circle, where I averaged nine or so).
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I came in at 12 but I got hosed. I misunderstood two of the early efforts and was off by more than 100. I was trying to outsmart it. That’s what I get. I might try it again, actually knowing the rules, but not likely.
4.71 I hit one circle center dead on.
Cool site! I got 3.9. My weakest link was the triangle center, where I was over 9.
3.69! Woot!
3.48. was a 4.6 the first column goin slow, but did way better when I didnt overthink it and just click drag release
2.76
The most fascinating thing is the distribution of scores, with the long tail towards high scores.
Heh. 2.55, good enough for 7th out of last 500 players (at the time I did it).
I screwed up one midpoint (I released the mouse button too early) and got an 8.6 on that. The average of the other 20 trials was 2.25. But patience as well as acuity is being tested, isn’t it?
BBB
3.25 first attempt, 2.42 second attempt (after a bad start).
I have this temptation to hook up my large screen, zoom in, use a mouse and see how well I could do. It would also be interesting to see how the score improved over time, I suspect one could get quite good at it, (might be a useful talent to develop).
3.6, but I’ve had two martinis.
I would trade a couple of points for a martini right now…
BBB
3.44 Best on angle bisection, and center of the circle. Very interesting test.
Much easier with a mouse than a touchpad.
I wonder how this test relates to the ability to paint.
4.85. A touchpad and a small laptop screen don’t help with accuracy, and some of the scoring was *very* touchy–a pixel could be worth 2.0 on one test, while a couple mm could be .5 on another.
2.95. Hit one line bisection dead on.
Ref Mike Puckett’s wondering on how the test relates to the ability to paint, I would speculate “not very much.” Painting in specific, or being able to draw realistic natural scenes in general, seems to be much more related to being able to suppress the visual depth dimension and abstract a scene’s edges and color / shading gradations directly in 2-D. That’s why a standard trick when learning to draw / paint is to take a picture (often of a face) with which you aren’t too familiar, turn it upside down, and try to replicate it. Since it’s upside down, the visual subsystem of the brain has a harder time interpreting it as a “face”, and reproducing the edges and shading is easier. Another trick is to interpose a physical glass or plastic window or reticule between the artist and the scene, and focus on the plane surface of the window / reticule. It is thought that some autistic savants (e.g., Nadia of the famous horse drawings) are able to more directly access the underlying layers of the visual system without resorting to these kind of training tricks. There have even been experiments using transcranial magnetic stimulation to temporarily “strip away” some of the visual interpretation layers in otherwise normal people; results are inconclusive to date, as far as I know.
First try: 2.18
Well I have no artistic skill at all, Mike. There’s a data point for you.
I was struck by the possibilities of trying this in 3D. That is, draw a shaded realistic 3D object, like a cube, and ask the user to move the mouse to make the cube perfectly cubical. Or draw a great circle (line of longitude) on a sphere. Or draw a line dividing a prism in half.
I wonder if people would do as generally well on that? I bet they would. The human visual processing system is really a stunningly brilliant piece of engineering.
I got a 3.00. I messed up a midpoint and had a couple of others where I accidently right clicked. I found bisecting to be the easiest, because if you bring in the line some, it’s easy to find the half.
Mike Puckett / Big D:
Interesting point about the pointing device. I have a Thinkpad with a pointing stick (and a touchpad that is deliberately disabled). I have always preferred pointing sticks and trackballs over mice and touchpads. Maybe this is a clue why.
BBB
7.62. Well below average. I’m really bad at picking the center of a triangle.
Yours,
Tom
The first time I took this test a year or two ago, I was trying to make Trapezoids. That’s a sure-fire way to pooch your score when the test is to make a parallelogram…
Parallelogram 2.2
Midpoint 3.2
Bisect angle 4.3
Triangle center 15.1
Circle center 0.0
Right angle 4.8
Convergence 4.5 Average 4.87
No Mars mission for me!
2.13 for me. I flew through on the first round and paid for it, but got my score down to 1.04 on the second and third so there’s a learning factor. Fun, but I don’t want to do it twice.