The Eyeballing Game
By Sean O'Hara
The Eyeballing Game should come with a warning — it’s that addictive. The idea here is to see how close you can come to making the mark without measuring, just by gauging distance and angle with the Mark I eyeball.
The series of seven tests pit you against the types of challenges Toolmongers face all the time. I scored higher than the overall average with a 3.92 — but it’s very clear that I need to keep the tools and measuring gear around.
Check it out and see how you compare. But be warned: It’s harder than it might first appear. Then again, some of the old-timers who’ve been eyeballing since before most of us were born will likely have no trouble at all.
The Eyeballing Game [Woodgears]
October 14th, 2008 at 10:51 am
Thanks for posting this! I haven’t been able to get much below a 3.xx so far. That stupid “Triangle Center” test keeps screwing me up!
October 14th, 2008 at 11:29 am
My 2.54 didn’t last long on that top 10 lists.
Strongpoints: Right angles, Bisecting angles, convergence points.
Weakpoints: Center of circles, parallelograms, triangle centers
Time for one more before lunch is over…
October 14th, 2008 at 12:59 pm
Oh, I love Matthias’ website. He has tons of great woodworking and Lego stuff.
My personal favorite is his CNC box joint jig:
http://www.sentex.net/~mwandel/workshop/motor_jig.html
I love that insane box joint at the bottom of the page.
The sawmill page is good tool pron too.
October 14th, 2008 at 1:26 pm
LOL, that’s ok Lee the parallelogram is the one that puts the hurt on my score. I did it well one time and that’s about it.
October 14th, 2008 at 2:11 pm
2.27….gosh, my carpal tunnel is acting the hell up.
October 14th, 2008 at 8:25 pm
yeah, that parallelogram… i think it has something to do with the eye trying to force a depth perspective thing or something. I’ve been doing well on the center of trianle and convergence points, those are sweet.
October 14th, 2008 at 10:16 pm
I was at 1.8 through the first 2 rounds. Then the ol’ calibrated eyeball got tired of staring at a white screen in the dark I guess… 3.34 will do.