Centered or Not / Methodology
How Centered or Not works
How rounds are made
Every card front is a scan from the owner's own collection, straightened and cropped to the card's outer edges.
- The answer is measured on the scan: the card's four outer edges and the four inner printed-border lines, each found along many lines per side, give the left/right and top/bottom splits.
- The measurement was checked against hand-placed lines before any card was scored, and every scored card was checked by eye with its lines drawn over it. Border types it can't measure reliably stay unscored.
- Cards not measured yet save your lines without scoring them.
- Your miss is the average of the left/right and top/bottom misses, in ratio points: within 1.0 is dead-on (and a bonus), within 2.5 sharp, within 5 close.
- Points are measured against the typical split: the middle left/right and top/bottom splits of the measured cards from the same era, a read anyone could make without looking. It scores 0, like Can't measure. You earn a point for every ratio point your miss beats the typical split's miss by, and lose one for every point it falls short, up to 3 either way.
Fair play and player figures
- Answers stay on the server until you answer.
- Only rounds with a known answer are scored. Nothing is scored for speed or for agreeing with other players.
- Player percentages appear only once an item has at least 100 counted answers. They describe players of this game, not the public. It is not a poll.
- Each network counts at most 3 answers per item, and hosting-provider networks never count. None of this changes your own score or streak.