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Show HN: Eyeball (https://eyeball.rory.codes)

292 points by mrroryflint 4 days ago | 88 comments | View on ycombinator

MontyCarloHall 4 days ago |

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 4 days ago |

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)

sandebert 4 days ago |

Got a perfect result for the first try. (Off by zero.) Not trying again. :)

davidcollantes 4 days ago |

I was 0.06% off on eyeball. Beat me: https://eyeball.rory.codes.

This is fun!

harrisi 4 days ago |

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.

zer0tonin 4 days ago |

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.

mavdol04 3 days ago |

It's a bit of a cheat, but you can hit 0.00% every time. Just measure the bar length, then cross-multiply. :)

Example: bar is 1250px, max is 2100, number is 376 → (1250 × 376) / 2100 ≈ 223.8px from the start, that's the 0.00%.

densekernel 4 days ago |

https://eyeball.rory.codes/ I was 0.20% off on eyeball. Beat me: https://eyeball.rory.codes

throwawaydudhdn 4 days ago |

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.

SugarReflex 3 days ago |

I thought this was a random guessing game and kept randomly clicking and felt very frustrated. Once I realized how it works with the two numbers, estimating felt a lot more rewarding.

layer8 4 days ago |

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.

pedromlsreis 4 days ago |

0.11% by luck, because I actually got lucky the target number was too close to zero, out of a big scale.

ashm1104 4 days ago |

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)

furyofantares 4 days ago |

I find it very easy if it's near 50%, 10%, or 5%.

Presumably I'd do just as well visually near 90 and 95 as near 10 and 5, the difference is in the first stage, estimating the percentage.

iJohnDoe 4 days ago |

This seems like a nice therapeutic application. Something a person or practitioner could say, “Sit down and play this for 5 minutes to calm your mind.”

obomeretic 4 days ago |

I was 0.67% off on eyeball. Beat me: https://eyeball.rory.codes

ninju 4 days ago |

Note the "share" link doesn't share a specific challenge for others to try, which would be much cooler, instead it just shares to main page

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joey9prints 4 days ago |

Cool idea, love how simple it is. Minimal and clean.

sentacraft 2 days ago |

This is fun! and I really love the clean and modern UX.

0xchamin 2 days ago |

cool game. I tried. would be nice to include a helper description around what to do. took me a while to understand the challenge better.

Kwouz 2 days ago |

Its cool man, i was playing for 1 hour, havent won yet

gverrilla 4 days ago |

Suggestion: make timed tracks - like a sequence of 10 turns, within max 60/30/15s or something.

Mabusto 4 days ago |

I love these simple games that take 2 seconds to understand the rules.

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

fortran77 4 days ago |

I got a perfect "off by 4" on the first try! I feel like I've accomplished something!

FinanceFreddy 4 days ago |

Oh, this is actually fun! How about if you change the target every few seconds to add a bit of pressure.

schuhwerk 4 days ago |

Nice! Would be nice to see your progress over time (if you got better, also as a function of speed...)

RAZKOM 4 days ago |

I thought I was going to be really good at this but turns out I'm surprisingly bad. Cool idea.

zokier 4 days ago |

10 round avg 4.5%.

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

ketul_shah 4 days ago |

this is fun and helping me get grounded :). adding a timer would be a good idea, I think.

tartoran 4 days ago |

Fun. Got a streak of 4 and one of them was perfect (nearly .10% of target).

Daniel-Pan 1 day ago |

I was 0.43% away

p2hari 4 days ago |

My best on first attempt was 0.00% (Pure coincidence) . But was fun!

Lucas12546 2 days ago |

I got 0.03%. I try my best.

0x000xca0xfe 4 days ago |

10 perfect hits in a row!

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

ramon156 4 days ago |

800

0 out of 1,600

I still missed. Even when there was centered text.

Maybe the human is the weakest link

wolttam 4 days ago |

The low contrast of this website hurts my eyeball

baisampayans 4 days ago |

This is wild. Got hooked into it pretty fast

untitled-now 4 days ago |

I am amazed how such a simple app gets that much attention , whereas probably it is vibe coded in an hour using Claude or any other AI tool .

lbeyer 4 days ago |

Simple premise, oddly hard to put down.

shashankqv 4 days ago |

This is very cool and fun. Thank you.

ehsangazarr 4 days ago |

Really fun! I am pretty much blind

Chaseraph 4 days ago |

Well I suck.

fspoettel 4 days ago |

Would love a time trial mode

dennis3124 4 days ago |

Love how simple it is.

jjenks1106 4 days ago |

really cool! enjoy the simple premise but very satisfying

antoine-codefly 4 days ago |

Definitely need an iOS version! An angle version on a circle would be nice too.

thedetailsguy 4 days ago |

Super cool stuff!

oastp 4 days ago |

love it, pulls you in after a first try)

Hugsbox 4 days ago |

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

trickybusiness 4 days ago |

this is fun!

efilife 2 days ago |

very weird comments from very fresh accounts under this post

cdelsolar 4 days ago |

i got a 0.00% after 3 tries!

datagrasp-grcs 4 days ago |

Very cool

nextma 4 days ago |

my best is 0.08%

tt_dev 4 days ago |

this was fun

elliotJames548 4 days ago |

i made 0.87%

ehsangazarr 4 days ago |

pretty fun!

aspectop 4 days ago |

my avg was around 2% not able to do more than that lol

GearDev7532 4 days ago |

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