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Goofy or Regular: Dominant Eye Test

  • Regular, Left Eye Dominant

    Votes: 8 17%
  • Regular, Right Eye Dominant

    Votes: 16 33%
  • Goofy, Left Eye Dominant

    Votes: 8 17%
  • Goofy, Right Eye Dominant

    Votes: 14 29%
  • This damn eye test doesn’t work, WTF are you smoking?

    Votes: 2 4.2%

Goofy or Regular: Dominant Eye Test

11K views 21 replies 13 participants last post by  rasmasyean  
#1 · (Edited)
This is a survey to see if there is any correlation of dominant eye to snowboard stance.

To check what your dominant eye is, make a circle with your fingers.
Look through that finger hole at an object with both eyes open.
Close your right eye.
If the object is still in the finger hole, you are left eye dominant.
Try to close the left eye instead.
If the object is still in the finger hole, you are right eye dominant.

EDIT: If you get inconsistent results with either hand, try using both hands to make a hole. Or just a finger.
 
#2 · (Edited)
Are you dumb? Which hand you use changes the outcome of this test.

Your eyes do not have the ability to focus on objects at two separate distances. your either looking at your finger hole and there is double vision of the object or vice versa. I never got a consistent outcome.

Luckily if you wanna take the time, here is a test to print out.
http://www.usaeyes.org/lasik/library/Dominant-Eye-Test.pdf

Here is a test that is easier. This one eliminates the right/left hand variable.
http://www.archeryweb.com/archery/eyedom.htm
 
#3 ·
Are you dumb? Which hand you use changes the outcome of this test.

Your eyes do not have the ability to focus on objects at two separate distances. your either looking at your finger hole and there is double vision of the object or vice versa. I never got a consistent outcome.

Are you dumb? Look THROUGH the hole you're making with your fingers (while both eyes are open) at an object. Close the left eye. If you see it through your fingers, you're right eye dominant. It's really not that hard.



Anyway, I'm goofy and I'm right eye dominant.
 
#11 · (Edited)
Any person who shoots (rifle/handgun/archery) has had to determine dominant eye. The simplest test (I worked in an archery shop for a few years and had to help customers decide so this method is proven) is to hold a finger up against an object in the distance, the farther the better. You focus your eyes (both eyes are open at this point) on the distant object, your finger becomes blurred. You then close one eye, then the other. When the finger drastically shifts, the eye open at the time is your non-dominant eye.

No need for holes or cutouts...
 
#16 ·
i don't know if i have a dominant eye. I'm regular and right handed. pretty normal there. I'm not very good at riding goofy and i wouldn't consider myself ambidexterous. However with the circle test, i often end up with different results.

I think i usually use my right eye to aim a weapon, though i feel it has more to do with my stance and what my arms are doing than what eye is dominant.

incidentally, i wear glasses and have the exact same prescription for both eyes.
 
#19 ·
circle test - depends which hand and how I lift it.
finger on object test - neither I put the object inbetween the two images of my finger.
If I'm shooting a gun or drawing a bow I close my left eye.
I'm right handed and ride goofy.
 
#21 ·
How about if you stare at the object first and then lift your hand real fast to target the object. If you miss, don't adjust it arround. Stand somwhere else and repeat until you pretty much get it in the first lift.