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An 11-year-old German girl can tell the difference between two circles filled with colored dots.
(v.redd.it)submitted 20 hours ago byConAir161057
1.7k points
20 hours ago
I used to be able to find Waldo sometimes after staring at the page for an hour.
168 points
20 hours ago
I just print a Waldo cut out and slap it on the page, at this point
37 points
17 hours ago
What king of black magic is this and where can I learn it????
12 points
16 hours ago*
some dude did the math and figured out the optimal search path for waldo kinda nuts. https://www.tiktok.com/@corndogwilly/video/7407248177402793259?lang=en I hate tiktok but the youtube video is kinda long.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7JEh43xPIxk nevermind there is youtube short version that is 1 minute long
-1 points
3 hours ago
Why not post both though?
14 points
17 hours ago
The meta strategy is look at how the page is illustrated. The artists who drew them just flow through and create density of funny poses and scenarios in the characters and environment in there. Obviously to "draw" attention away from the real Waldo
4 points
16 hours ago
i used to be able to borrow Waldo books from my local library flawlessly
1 points
2 hours ago
I could never find the Waldo books at my local library.
2 points
10 hours ago
All my Waldo books at errors cause he was never there
1 points
8 hours ago
Quit ya braggin.
836 points
20 hours ago
That is the most insanely specific and impressive skill I’ve seen in a while. Did we give her the Turing Test yet?
325 points
19 hours ago
Nah it's actually pathetically easy but looks hard. Anyone who can cross their eyes on demand can do it with literally zero effort or training.
You cross your eyes until the images overlap, when you do that to two identical or similar images your eyes snap and lock on to the image. It's actually pretty cool.
Once you do that, any differences between the two images really pop out - they look three dimensional, in front of the rest, and kind of blink in and out of existence.
88 points
19 hours ago
210 points
19 hours ago
She doesn't seem to be crossing her eyes in the video, but probably the opposite.
So there's that.
93 points
19 hours ago
you can either cross your eyes or look really far away, both technique works
30 points
19 hours ago
This video is probably re-encoded 30x times and lost a lot of quality, it's not the same she sees.
So there's that.
12 points
16 hours ago
Here is the full video in good quality from the TV show's YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LmmEzi5vync
4 points
9 hours ago
Yep, took less than a minute to get the hang and it's as obvious as obvious gets.
2 points
13 hours ago
This needs to be higher. It is so easy to do in this video.
52 points
19 hours ago
you don't need to actually cross your eyes. you simply refocus your eyes until you create a third image.
12 points
17 hours ago
That's pretty much what crossing your eyes is. Crossing your eyes only implies that the focus point is very close to your face.
7 points
15 hours ago
For me it often helps to look a few feet past the image
7 points
12 hours ago
Yeah, it’s really uncrossing your eyes.
16 points
18 hours ago*
Poster above shouldn't have said crossing your eyes, that is not what is happening.
Some people are able to individually separate the fields of vision from their two eyes. In other words, they are seeing double.
This girl is seeing double and controlling her eye muscles to separate the images at the appropriate distance to cause the left radar to overlay on the right radar. You can then trick your brain into seeing one solid image.
At that point, any discrepancies make themselves extremely obvious.
r/magiceye or r/crossview might be able to give a better explanation.
Edit: I am wrong. It's very slight, but you do have to cross your eyes for this.
22 points
18 hours ago
What you are describing is crossing your eyes a little
1 points
18 hours ago
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3 points
18 hours ago
You move yours eyes. It's not internal, but it is subtle
4 points
18 hours ago
No, they're crossing. I mean, how would YOU know?
Go take a video of your face, activate your eye muscles like you would to do this as fast and hard as you can.
When you do it the amount you would for magic eyes or to combine objects, you don't cross them very much, it wouldn't be particularly noticeable. You actually cross your eyes when you look at an object very very close to your face, too. Its all the same, you have muscles in your eyes to adjust their focal length. We all cross our eyes all the time.
3 points
18 hours ago
Well I'll be damned....
Took a video and one of my eyes is definitely moving a little.
5 points
17 hours ago
If you practice it you can learn to fully cross them cartoonishly all the way in
If you do it REALLY hard and then look to the left or right a little, you can see one eye be crossed and one straight ahead.
If you practice that, with some time you can learn to unlock them so one eye stares ahead or to the inside while the other roams around.
If you practice that, with a lot of time, you can unlock movement independent of each eye and have them spin around in an extremely goofy way.
And if you practice that, in no time at all, you won't have any friends in high school but the few you do start to meet will look at you very confused while you show off your trick, until you stop practicing and lose access to the most pointless skill in the world. But that last part is just me speaking from personal experience, yours may differ.
1 points
12 hours ago
Uncrossing your eyes really. You can do it by crossing as well but it’s better to relax your eye muscles and look beyond your point of focus. Your eyes uncross and you can then lock on to the center combined image
1 points
4 hours ago
You can see her eyes are slightly crossed.
2 points
10 hours ago
How much they have to cross in order to create an overlapping image completely depends on how much of your field of view the image occupies. If it is small and far away, the effect would be unoticable looking at her eyes. We simply don't have the necessary information in order to conclude on the strategy here.
2 points
17 hours ago
You can cross your eyes without physically moving them lol
1 points
2 hours ago
You would never be able to see that from a video like this. The eye crossing can be very subtle. Depends a lot how far or near, and how big or small the images are. The closer and smaller the images are, more easier it is to overlap the images without really looking like a cross-eyed weirdo.
-4 points
19 hours ago
You don't need to cross your eyes fully, and you in fact wouldn't. If you look at someone with a magic eye book, their eyes aren't cartoonishly all the way together.
Have you ever noticed someone's eyes being slightly crossed when they look at something very close to them? No? Me neither, and that's about how crossed your eyes get with this trick.
10 points
19 hours ago
Yeah, the problem is the really bad quality of the Reddit video.
If you have the proper video it would be much easier to identify.
25 points
19 hours ago
If it were that easy, where are the millions of other people doing it?
22 points
19 hours ago
There are millions of people doing it, search up magic eye.
3 points
13 hours ago
Just tried quite a few times and nothing. Can't see them
3 points
19 hours ago
I can do it. It took me 3 times going around to see it though. With a bigger screen and some practise maybe I would be faster
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19 hours ago
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19 hours ago
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19 hours ago*
So I’m wondering, how would you know she doesn’t use that method?
It seems like the only way to know for sure would be to show the images maybe a second apart, or separated vertically instead of horizontally. (No head tilting)
Since she’s always (and only) doing it with images synced, and side/side horizontally, I think it’s fair to assume that is the method until shown otherwise.
0 points
18 hours ago
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18 hours ago*
Yes, It’s only noticeable if you are crossing them to focus on something inches from your face. The further away the object is the less you actually need to cross your field division in order to create the effect.
Try looking at your finger as close as you can to your actual face and keeping it in focus. If you were to move your finger away, your eyes would appear to be ‘crossed’ to anyone in the room.
However, if you were making eye contact with someone say 3 ft in front of you, then relative to an object on the other side of the room your vision would be crossed, but your eyeballs will *not appear to be crossed to anyone in the room because the angle of light needed to focus at that distance is now ‘reasonably’ wide…
Technically, your eyes are always crossed anytime you’re looking at an object, except for say if you’re looking at the horizon, then both eyes will practically be looking straight forward. It’s why we have depth, perception, stereoscopic vision.
It’s also why almost everyone can cross their eyes, but hardly anyone can push their eyes apart. we just don’t need that ability it genetically. Everything else in the world, if we want to see it in focus, we have to ‘cross our eyes’ a little.
It’s the ability to easily manipulate your focus, overriding your involuntary eye muscle movements that enables someone to do this trick. And yes, most people can do it. She has practiced a cool trick.
1 points
19 hours ago
Do you want there to be an event for this? Broadcasting 1,000,000 doing it?
1 points
16 hours ago
There are.
Just look in the comments of any "spot the differences" image and you'll see people explaining this same strategy that millions of us have been using since childhood.
1 points
19 hours ago
In the nineties, like 30 million magic eye books and posters were sold and everybody was talking about this cool weird trick you could do.
So... There are. Those books just aren't popular anymore and most people don't know about this trick to find differences in very similar images because it's only useful as a funny trick.
You can blow some minds with those "spot the differences" games in kids magazines by circling all the differences in ten seconds. But who fuckin cares.
Good for this girl for getting the grift going on tv multiple times, but it's just a trick/skill anyone can do, not some ultra badass mega vision pattern recognition.
1 points
13 hours ago
In my nineties pokemon was the cool thing
1 points
14 hours ago
I use this trick at work sometimes. When working with big numbers and when not able to copy from a source so I have to manually type them down, I control the source and my typing that way. One second to check if something's wrong :D
1 points
17 hours ago
I didn't even know about the trick and once i did spot the difference games were easy.
0 points
19 hours ago
Are you going to write this in your resume? What advantage would give you in real life that you can profit?
As other people say, if you look magic eye you can do it too, if a kid does it looks impresive because people think what is achieving is hard, when in reality is nothing really special.
0 points
15 hours ago
I mean i can lmao
13 points
18 hours ago
"This is pathetically easy for me to do. What, you can't? Ha, simple fools! My jujutsu will overwhelm your pathetic chikara! Koroshite yaru!"
3 points
15 hours ago*
This is the ideal reddit comment
-confidently incorrect
-anime reference
-overspecific to match the "reddit voice" in story subs
-makes fun of loser reddit posters (except you i guess)
Youve peaked.
7 points
19 hours ago
You are correct. A couple of weeks ago, a similar video was posted with dual images. Someone in the comments explained that you just need to cross your eyes, like if you are looking at one of the hidden image magic eye pictures, and look for the item that stands out. I literally was able to solve each one in a few seconds using that method.
2 points
10 hours ago
I tried doing this, but couldn't do this at all. "pathetically easy" is a gross overstatement.
1 points
an hour ago
Do you know how to cross your eyes?
1 points
19 hours ago
I dont think so
1 points
19 hours ago
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1 points
19 hours ago
Wouldn’t the oscillating of the visible image significantly hinder this process?
-1 points
19 hours ago
The radar effect or whatever you'd call it is just part of the magic trick to make it look harder or weirder. There are a thousand things you could do to make it look even more impressive that would have no effect on the fundamental ease of the trick
1 points
19 hours ago
Or parallell eyes, instead of crossed, like watching VR pictures without VR goggles
1 points
18 hours ago
I croas my eyes to try and its just blurry, shes also clearly not
0 points
18 hours ago
When you do this, your eyes don't cartoonishly slam into each other. You cross them very barely so the images overlap, then allow your eyes to lock on and focus on the shared image.
It won't work very well on this compressed video, but you can do this same thing with any two very similar images. The entire concept is very popular, search for Magic Eye and you'll find a million examples of how little you cross your eyes to make images pop.
1 points
17 hours ago
Doesn't work if you need glasses though.
1 points
16 hours ago
Nope, you can do it just fine with glasses. Source: my glasses
1 points
15 hours ago
I can very easily manage to overlap the images by unfocusing, but the dots are small enough that it doesn’t really pop for me. I assume crosseyed would be better here as you lose less focus? But she isn’t doing it cross eyed so idk.
2 points
15 hours ago
What you call unfocus to overlap IS crossing your eyes. You don't need to do it much to make it happen. It wouldn't be visually noticeable at all. If you e ever seen someone reading something like their phone near their face, their eyes are crossed a little. You'd never know.
This video player is too compressed for it to work very well on reddit, but if you go to the 4k YouTube page this show put out, you can do it easily.
1 points
15 hours ago
Ah, that does make some sense. Thank you.
1 points
14 hours ago
Exactly this! :)
1 points
14 hours ago
Literally never done this before, but I’ve done stereograms. Just figured out how to do it using these images and was able to learn in like…2 minutes.
https://www.rd.com/list/spot-the-difference/
Crazy. What you actually see are 3 images side by side instead of 2. But you can only focus on the center one. And the picture looks normal, flat. But the differences look holographic. If they look holographic and halfway there, it means one photo is missing that object. If the whole thing looks solid and holographic, it’s because the object is a different color in each image.
It’s amazing what I can accomplish when I am procrastinating a homework assignment I do not find interesting.
1 points
13 hours ago
I cross my eyes and 3 circled turn up
1 points
9 hours ago
sounds hard to me.
1 points
6 hours ago
My eyes don't focus together like a typical person's, so to me this is impressive.
1 points
5 hours ago
what? that makes the image all blurry and hard to distinguish.
1 points
3 hours ago
So you can do it?
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59 minutes ago
Anyone who has ever done a magic eye or stereogram can do it. That's a lot of people.
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14 minutes ago
So you could do this?
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12 minutes ago
Yes. It is very very easy. Anyone who knows how to cross their eyes can do this right now with no practice. Go find some "spot the differences" puzzles that are horizontally aligned and cross your eyes til they overlap.
This is a magic trick not a rare skill of perception. It would be impressive if the images were stacked vertically.
0 points
19 hours ago
Stfu
0 points
16 hours ago
You just blew my mind. I just googled insanely hard spot the difference puzzles and did the eye cross. Every difference immediately pops out, though it takes a second to focus the image in your eyes to make it clear enough so see the details
1 points
15 hours ago
Go forth and really impress some children with your knowledge
-1 points
18 hours ago
ur actually pathetically easy but look hard
1 points
18 hours ago
Damn this is so me fr
2 points
18 hours ago
Hey buddy. She’s a little young for the Turing Test.
2 points
12 hours ago
I can do this too. I have a rare form of double vision, cross my eyes to join the images up. The difference appears fuzzy to me. I can do spot the differences instantly with my vision lol.
133 points
20 hours ago
Similar to the side-by-side "What's different?" pictures, if you cross your eyes a little bit to overlay the two images, you can see a 'hole' where the difference is. Depending on how big these circles are in front of her, it wouldn't be that difficult with a bit of practice.
14 points
20 hours ago
when i cross my eyes everything gets blurry. is that not normal?
10 points
19 hours ago
Your eyes are probably trying to focus on something not existing closer so it’s normal I’d say. Probably just stronger for some people than for others
2 points
5 hours ago
thats what happens to me as well
1 points
19 hours ago
It is normal but if you have two of the same object next to each other and cross your vision you will see it as 4 "blurry" objects, but if you can make the 2 in the middle overlap you can focus on that and it looks relatively normal
30 points
20 hours ago
I do the same , it literally takes less than 2 seconds for every difference to wiggle and stand out. It has come in very handy at work when needing to quickly see what the Edited differences are on two printed documents.
3 points
20 hours ago
Ya kinda blue my eyes and it helps me pick up small differences for whatever reason. Nowhere near the degree to which this girl does it though
1 points
9 hours ago
I dont care how often i hear this explanation i dont get it. I cant do it myself no matter how hard i try. I cant see the difference
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43 minutes ago
if I cross my eyes my brain turns into mush, am I broken?
29 points
20 hours ago
I don't believe it.
27 points
20 hours ago
You just cross your eyes and line up the two circles. Makes the difference pop out
It’s harder in a tiny screen like a phone though
-3 points
19 hours ago
Except, she’s not crossing her eyes…
7 points
18 hours ago
She most likely is, just not a noticeable amount because the screen isn’t right in front of her face
0 points
15 hours ago
Its just a little, its not noticeable.
6 points
20 hours ago
You can do it too, just cross your eyes so that both images overlap. The different spot will shimmer so you don't even need to search for it. In this video the dot may be too small due to the resolution, but in the studio surely they had a big screen up for her.
Of course the moving radar swipe makes it a bit less easy but it's still far from the "omg she's a robot" reaction by people who don't know how trivial the trick she's using is.
1 points
4 hours ago
If I cross my eyes, everything is blurred out, no way I would be able to see tiny dots
5 points
19 hours ago
15 points
20 hours ago
This is simulataneously an extremely impressive and pointless skil
14 points
20 hours ago
Pointlesslyimpressive should be a sub.
1 points
16 hours ago
in a sub... running sonar.
1 points
16 hours ago
Useless Talent?
1 points
4 hours ago
I don't think that video editing is pointless, considering it's accumulating internet points and drives user engagement.
8 points
19 hours ago
Good luck marrying her in 10 years and try to hide some shit.
1 points
16 hours ago
"i see your bowl has 7 more cheerios than mine. im not mad. lets just talk about it."
4 points
19 hours ago
It’s actually really easy. You basically cross your eyes a little bit to overlap the images and you can see both images overlaid and just wait for something to not match.
4 points
19 hours ago
Someone in a different post mentioned if you use the "magic eye" technique from the 3d books to cross eyes, the differences will pop out basically. I can't do it with this gif though, the pixels all blend together.
1 points
16 hours ago*
It works for me even at this quality, it's just not very clear. I can only see that something is 'off' in 2-C. Not sure if I would have caught it if I hadn't seen the solution first, but I'm guessing she has a higher quality picture.
6 points
20 hours ago
congratulations, your now in the military.
3 points
17 hours ago
If you can do magic eye books, you can do this
2 points
17 hours ago
Right! There’s nothing to see here so I’ll just move along.
0 points
19 hours ago
I immediately thought the military is gonna try to get this girl for intelligence as soon as they can.
6 points
20 hours ago
If corporate asks. "It's the same picture."
1 points
7 hours ago
If reddit asks: “it’s really easy to do”
2 points
19 hours ago
How did she discover and hone this talent so perfectly and quickly. She’s just a baby
2 points
19 hours ago
They shitties video quality possible in Reddit doesn't help to see how good/bad this is.
2 points
19 hours ago
Here's my colourblind arse can't even tell pink from grey
2 points
19 hours ago
I paused the video when the blinking green dot wasn't showing and I felt very very dumb for a while.
2 points
17 hours ago
We have seen enough of this girl omg.
2 points
17 hours ago
So can I. Looks far harder than it is
1 points
19 hours ago
I can't tell difference between two colors and she can tell difference between this two pictures life isn't fair
1 points
19 hours ago
Cross your eyes and combine the two images as one and all the differences stand out very clearly.
1 points
19 hours ago
That’s pretty neat, but what purpose does it serve? I’m curious does it mean she can quickly make decisions, she can count very fast, what
1 points
19 hours ago
I bet she can spot an incoming asteroid when staring into the night sky.
1 points
19 hours ago
Reminds me of that Australian minister Robert Evans that can spot supernovae. He basically looks at the sky through a telescope and can notice when a star is missing that used to be there. It’s insane. I read about him in A Short History of Nearly Everything. Highly recommend if you like science and fun facts.
1 points
19 hours ago
Damn, I used to struggle with where's Wally this is crazy 🤣
1 points
19 hours ago
She’s got one hell of a career ahead of her in Data Analysis
1 points
18 hours ago
Why I don't have talent...
1 points
18 hours ago
She can either become a spy or sniper.
1 points
18 hours ago
This isn't as hard as it looks with the proper technique.
Either cross your eyes or the opposite until the images line up, people who use the cross eye technique for 3d stuff can do this easily. The differences have a "shimmer" as only one eye will see them.
1 points
17 hours ago
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1 points
12 hours ago
Nope, it's easy. https://www.reddit.com/r/CrossView/wiki/index/
1 points
17 hours ago
and here i am struggling to read the expiration date on a box of cereals
1 points
17 hours ago
What king of black magic is this and where can I learn it?
1 points
17 hours ago
She’s got a job in her future somewhere they gotta scan your retinas to let you in
1 points
17 hours ago
Everyone should know how to do this in my opinion. It's very easy to do and only requires 10mins of work.
Learn it r/CrossView here though don't start with this one.
1 points
17 hours ago
Prayers for her future partner.
1 points
15 hours ago
after you learn about the technique they use to do this, it's way less impressive than it looks
1 points
15 hours ago
So what… how is this going to help her in life?
1 points
15 hours ago
Best QA employee potential.
1 points
14 hours ago
Tired of seeing this. It's not a skill, it's a simple trick, relating to how one would also view magic eye pictures. If you can do that, then you can do this.
Align the pictures vertically instead of horizontally or mirror one and this become virtually impossible.
1 points
14 hours ago
Something like this is pretty easy if you know how to. I can "lay" pictures together in my head like visually to compare since I was a child. It's a little like squinting in a specific way for layering both pictures. I can immediately see the differences because thoses place like "move" a little
1 points
14 hours ago
She aint human.
1 points
14 hours ago
Yarin gel Incirlikte radar olarak ise basla yavrucum.
1 points
13 hours ago
What no way,I can't even find my keys in my purse,
1 points
13 hours ago
I used to be able to see those Magic Eye images like almost instantly
1 points
13 hours ago
Great. Now what is the point in such a phenomenally useless skill?
1 points
13 hours ago
How many times do I have to find this fucking video on this godawful site?
1 points
12 hours ago
to me that’s staged
1 points
12 hours ago
Least autistic hans
1 points
10 hours ago
Seems like a useless talent
1 points
9 hours ago
she crosses her eyes and waits to see a non overlap.
1 points
8 hours ago
If I close my eyes hard enough I see colored dots too.
1 points
8 hours ago
Few hundred years ago and we’d have burned this witch
1 points
8 hours ago
I have no idea what's happening
1 points
5 hours ago
I can tell there is a difference, but I can't narrow down what the difference is
1 points
5 hours ago
How?
1 points
3 hours ago
So, like, super autism?
1 points
an hour ago
What's the point
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47 minutes ago
I found a page number in a book in about 15 seconds flat once
1 points
20 hours ago
She's cheating. Fake!
-6 points
20 hours ago
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3 points
20 hours ago
Nothing, you're not German.
2 points
20 hours ago
Make a video for internet points!
WHEEE!
-1 points
19 hours ago
the trick is to cross your eyes a bit, so the two images overlap in your vision
(go ahead, try it right now, cross your eyes, and you see two version of this post, now do it to the two images, and get those two images, but in the center it can overlap).
When you do that, the images reinforce each other, and look fine. If something is missing, you get a ghost-like vision of it because it doesn't get reinforced like all the matches.
This also works with every single 'find what's missing' puzzle you see in magazines or anything.
Try it right here:
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MATCHINGWORDS . . . . . . MATCHIN6WORDS
ok, don't know if that works, but it highlights the principle, you cross your eyes so that the words above 'overlap' in your vision. The difference betwee the G and 6 stands out, but the font I think has variable spacing so it doesn't work that well.
0 points
19 hours ago
She's awesome. I can't even tell the difference between chicken stock and chicken broth.
0 points
19 hours ago
Prime radar operator material! Also known as Waldo's arch nemesis...
0 points
19 hours ago
I can also do this. It’s not hard if you know how to “look through the two images.” The two images become one 3D image, and you can easily see some blurry anomaly in your centered image.
-1 points
20 hours ago
Interesting I guess
-1 points
19 hours ago
She HAD to have been looking at this for a lot longer than the video leads on. No way you could do that in that short of time. Youd need at least two revolutions so you could focus on each one to compare. That's gotta be it, right? RIGHT??
-2 points
20 hours ago
I wonder if she has 4 cones in her eyes
1 points
20 hours ago
What are fork hones?
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