Comments on: Which Way Is The Girl Spinning? A Visual Brain Test

By: brandon

brandon — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 03:50:38 +0000

if its spinning clockwise then just put your left hand on your desk and and trace her figure without looking at your hand and it should switch directions.

By: Alexander

Alexander — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 11:03:21 +0000

In my first minute staring at the test, I saw it turning clockwise. Then I saw it turning counterclockwise. After a few minutes, I realized that it wasn’t spinning 360 degrees at all. It only turns 180 degrees. When the toe reaches the very left or the very right it will just turn to reverse direction. I can also make myself see that it spins 360 degrees on any direction I want. I’m not a genius.. I’m only an average type. The bottomline is it’s only an optical illusion.. that when you found the trick point, you’ll see how it was designed. Hope this helps on how to perceive it in either ways.

By: Lani

Lani — Thu, 21 May 2009 14:45:14 +0000

My husband and I aslo looked at it simultaneously and saw it going in different directions. It was certainly our minds changing it and not the computer as we tried looking at it from different angles and still it spun differently for us which is what I expected. He’s a left brainer and I’m a right.

We see with our minds, not our eyes- the eyes simply receive the light from the image and the brain translates it…

Both of us saw it change directions. I’m able to make it change based on what I’m thinking. Analytical - left. Arts - right. Worked for me numerous times.

Not convinced that any of this is any real indication of level of intelligence though. But certainly displays an amazing capability of the brain.

By: Regina Falangi

Regina Falangi — Mon, 04 May 2009 07:29:36 +0000

I can see it both ways and I’m able to change the direction of it when I want. It’s just a matter of training your eyes. The figure does not actually spin. It’s just an optical illusion.

There are no lines of shadow on the body so you just assume it’s a figure spinning in circles, while really it’s just a 2D image swinging backwards and forwards. As much as I would love the title Genius. I doubt this has any real accuracy, as within seconds of trying, I was able to switch the way it was “spinning”

By the way, an IQ of 130 (which is mine) is not even close to genius.

-Regina. x

By: Jouke

Jouke — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 13:50:25 +0000

Stays funny, my father can only see it clockwise. For me it switches every 2-3 seconds. Then again, i do posses an IQ of 143. Whilst i am proud of it, i am a too distracted person to utilize it. Then yet again, i do have small signs of dyslection and dyscalculation.

If da Vinci would look at it, it would most likely change direction atleast a few times a second if in a relaxed mood. Not strange for a person with the IQ of ~220.

Nurturing “Nature vs Nurture” plays a bigger role in this era then nature. Shame though that society brain-washes most people to act systematic, in other words, left brained.

But everyone has the potential of a genius, as certain people said;

Geniuses are made, not born.

If only people would think further then the eye limits.

By: Nick

Nick — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 07:49:34 +0000

I watched it for like 5 minutes clockways, then the last five minutes its been counter-clockwise??
And at one pont I saw her going back and forth 180 degrees for like 5 seconds?
The mind is too stange

By: Stacey

Stacey — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 12:00:28 +0000

I found it was easy to change direction if you cover everything except the foot… which is easy to see both ways, and then slowly uncover the figure.

I naturally see it clockwise… but I am definitely much better at maths than English etc.. so I don’t trust the conclusions.

By: Lindsay

Lindsay — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 02:08:27 +0000

Thanks Ronnie,

That is a great test, I wish I had thought of checking it that way.

By: Ronnie

Ronnie — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 23:04:40 +0000

For the people who say its fake, Both me and my sister was watching this the same time and we both saw it spinning in a different directions. I saw it clockwise she saw it counter. It was the same computer. So how is that Different server? it works get, over it.

By: javo

javo — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 15:32:34 +0000

wow if that really works i think I’m a genius