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100%! Not sure what this measures, but I've spent decades trying to gauge whether a design is one pixel off, or if some minor change has affected the layout of something. Maybe that was all preparation for slicing America in two using an Australia-shaped knife.

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I only got perfect score on the donut/mug one... is this game trying to tell me something?

You are Homer Simpson and I claim my £5, Mr Cthulu_.

Err what are your pronouns, O tentacled horror of an old one (with a trailing ledge).

I got 98% The two I cocked up I spent too long trying to align edges and geometry but actually it seems us humans do have a pretty decent hard wired equal area estimator built in. The last one - AUS/US - should be really hard but I suspect that the results are pretty good.

I'd love to see the results for this. There is almost certainly a decent paper in it.

I got 100pc on the aus/usa, donut and mug, and a few others. Pretty surprised!

Good skills

Congratulations, you may have discovered your unique talent! Now, about the monetization strategy ...

97% (5 perfect). I don't know either. My guess is that most people are pretty good at judging what the half of something looks like. I feel like if the movement (on my phone anyway) wasn't as jerky/sticky I would have gotten one more perfect. I definitely had one that was very inaccurate (55/45) though.

Lol, I got the America/Australia one perfect too! That surprised me!

They seem to be fudging it a bit. In the first example with the circle, anything better than 45%-55% (as measured in my graphics editor) is reported as a perfect 50-50 split.

I guess “Australia-shaped cookie cutter” would be more accurate

I wonder, is a cookie cutter a kind of bent knife - or is a knife a kind of straightened cookie cutter?

now if only the America vs Australia cut was on spherical (or ellipsoidal I guess) geometry rather than projecting both countries to a plane prior to slicing

I got 97% on the first part and was impressed with myself, but you're experience with design work is certainly the professional difference. That's impressive!

97% here too, with 6 out of 8 perfect cuts. Much better than I expected!

I had 99%. I was barely off on the bird. After the bird I said screw it with Australia and the USA and barely tried and still got 50/50. LOL

I did best when I didn't "overthink". I would briefly reasoned about the geometry, then stop once it felt right

I got 92%, I’m proud.

I did best when I worked intuitively and fast.

100% too, but I was shooting blind for the last few. Not sure if I just got super lucky or if the brain is better tired think at setting that.

Congratulations, and here I was happy with my 95% :)

95pct, 4 perfect splits, did better than I thought I would

100% over here, too. I used more geometric thinking at the beginning but of course that shifted into gut feeling by the end. Nice job!

"Maybe that was all preparation for slicing America in two using an Australia-shaped knife" one of those sentences I feel like no one has ever said before (/r/brandnewsentence material)

I don't think HN is the place for r/subreddithashtags

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