stick shift and hand-eye

[saaz55]

i was wondering, would driving a standard car count as actual hand-eye coordination. what if the applicant was a race car driver and pretty much has to do it very quickly?

 

[IcemanDDS]

This takes little coordination and would not help your app if mentioned. It's a common skill. Mention activities involving fine movements maybe, but not shifting gears...

 

[Fuji]

You may as well tell the adcoms that you know how to floss. At least it's related to dentistry.

 

[Regmata]

Lol...

 

[shamrock2006]

Interviewer: "so do you have any special skills?"
Interviewee: "uhhhh...I can drive?"
Interviewer: SWEET! (but most likely he or she will just look at you like ur nuts)

 

[PChemGrad]

Ya. Its not really had eye coordination considering you only use one hand, and the shifter can only move in a certain path. It is already blocked out for you with a template.
Now if you can paint a picture while driving without looking then that would be great hand eye coordination and perceptible ability.

 

[albodent]

your car must be really slow if you have to shift that fast to get moving......lol, no matter how fast I shift, I still hit 10's....🙂

Well, to answer your question, I put down fishing to help with manual dexterity. So if you think that driving helps, go ahead and include it.

 

[Blarelli]

I've always wondered if when I apply I should put down silhouette style competition shooting to show manual dexterity, and coordination. What do you think?

 

[IamJetLi]

please move this forum to the nascar section

 

[saaz55]

lmao. thos are some prty funny responses. but man am I getting drilled for asking this question. i was just curious. but i guess it answers my question

 

[cdmOMR]

Now wait a minute.....it depends on what kind of race car we are talking about. If you are driving a high end 1/4 or road course car then it may be worth mentioning. I think what a lot of people dont know on here that it takes a lot more finesse and skill to drive a built 9-10 second 6 speed or some sort of competetive road course car than it does to drive their 1995 honda civic 5 speed.

So enlighten me on what kind of "race car" this is?

 

[z3u2]

Now wait a minute.....it depends on what kind of race car we are talking about. If you are driving a high end 1/4 or road course car then it may be worth mentioning. I think what a lot of people dont know on here that it takes a lot more finesse and skill to drive a built 9-10 second 6 speed or some sort of competetive road course car than it does to drive their 1995 honda civic 5 speed.

So enlighten me on what kind of "race car" this is?

relating to another thread a few weeks ago, about putting playing computer games on application

a lot of people don't know that "professional" computer gamers require extreme hand-eye coordination skills as well..

an example from
http://online.wsj.com/article_email/SB108508466637517166-IVjgINhlad3m52rZYCIa6aGm4.html

A measure pro-gamers use to gauge ability is APM, or actions per minute. APM is the average number of maneuvers a player can execute in 60 seconds. In Starcraft, most casual players have an APM of between 50 and 70. Mr. Lim has been known to hit 400 APM at some games, or 6.66 moves per second.