Show HN: Eyeball

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MontyCarloHall today at 2:46 PM
A modern take on Matthias Wandel's classic [0], which has you guess a variety of geometric attributes (e.g. angle bisection, centroid locating, shape regularization), not just simple partitioning of a line.

[0] https://woodgears.ca/eyeball/index.html

forlorn_mammoth today at 1:18 PM
Love it!

It would be great to have a 'training' mode, where you get to repeat ones you miss. This would increase the learning speed.

Easy training- repeat the one you just borked Medium training- cycles through say 5 examples until you get all five within your target range (1%, 0.1%, whatever)

p2hari today at 5:24 PM
My best on first attempt was 0.00% (Pure coincidence) . But was fun!
davidcollantes today at 1:57 PM
I was 0.06% off on eyeball. Beat me: https://eyeball.rory.codes.

This is fun!

densekernel today at 3:31 PM
https://eyeball.rory.codes/ I was 0.20% off on eyeball. Beat me: https://eyeball.rory.codes
harrisi today at 4:30 PM
It's interesting that there are, at the time I'm commenting, 11 new users commenting on this submission, some commenting multiple times. I wonder what the effect of "share my score" type pages have on account creation.
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Mabusto today at 4:30 PM
I love these simple games that take 2 seconds to understand the rules.

Off by 6 on my iPad by mis-clicking. Very satisfying!

layer8 today at 3:17 PM
The fact that the numbers are in a brighter color than the end marks, and that the numbers go inwards, makes it slightly more difficult than it would otherwise be, because the eye is biased by the more prominent space between the numbers being different from the line between the marks.
wolttam today at 4:10 PM
The low contrast of this website hurts my eyeball
schuhwerk today at 3:52 PM
Nice! Would be nice to see your progress over time (if you got better, also as a function of speed...)
throwawaydudhdn today at 2:40 PM
Great idea! Have you considered storing triplets <range, correct number, selected number> for each try and making image plots of these (x/y coordinates are correct/selected numbers, color of each pixel represents frequency) for multiple users for each range? I think the image might reveal interesting properties of human eyeballing, like near-perfect accuracy around 50%, but with less obvious correlations.
pedromlsreis today at 1:10 PM
0.11% by luck, because I actually got lucky the target number was too close to zero, out of a big scale.
ashm1104 today at 1:30 PM
I love these kind ones! Really engaging also yes as someone commented, the training mode would be an awesome idea.

Also, I tried this on laptop as well as my phone, I liked it more on my phone (I know the whole point is about precision though)

zer0tonin today at 10:42 AM
This is fun but you need to put "click the line" higher on the page. It took me a while to figure out what I was looking at.
Chaseraph today at 4:20 PM
Well I suck.
joey9prints today at 2:01 PM
Cool idea, love how simple it is. Minimal and clean.
Hugsbox today at 4:50 PM
I didn't think I'd be any good at this. What I didn't expect is how wildly inaccurate I'd be on every single goddamn attempt lmao it's like I completely lack whatever part of your brain is required to do this
antoine-codefly today at 2:15 PM
Definitely need an iOS version! An angle version on a circle would be nice too.
zokier today at 1:48 PM
10 round avg 4.5%.

A time limit would make sense imho. For extra challenge, add diagonal or curved lines.

FinanceFreddy today at 2:58 PM
Oh, this is actually fun! How about if you change the target every few seconds to add a bit of pressure.
0x000xca0xfe today at 2:00 PM
10 perfect hits in a row!

...

handleClick({clientX: els.bar.getBoundingClientRect().left + els.bar.getBoundingClientRect().width / state.n * state.target })

ramon156 today at 1:37 PM
800

0 out of 1,600

I still missed. Even when there was centered text.

Maybe the human is the weakest link

oastp today at 3:53 PM
love it, pulls you in after a first try)
ketul_shah today at 11:27 AM
this is fun and helping me get grounded :). adding a timer would be a good idea, I think.
lbeyer today at 3:14 PM
Simple premise, oddly hard to put down.
ehsangazarr today at 3:27 PM
Really fun! I am pretty much blind
cdelsolar today at 4:31 PM
i got a 0.00% after 3 tries!
tt_dev today at 2:46 PM
this was fun
trickybusiness today at 10:21 AM
this is fun!
ehsangazarr today at 3:27 PM
pretty fun!
elliotJames548 today at 11:05 AM
i made 0.87%
nextma today at 9:09 AM
my best is 0.08%
aspectop today at 2:13 PM
my avg was around 2% not able to do more than that lol