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Guide to feeling for Minifigs Series 11
William wrote another awesome guide to feeling for the LEGO minifigure packets - this time covering Series 11. As you might now already, William is legally blind and has mad tactile skills to identify minifigures very fast and with 100% accuracy. He is the guy who picks out all the minifigs for his local LUG members, and his guides have helped many LEGO fans to identify what's inside the packages and improve their own skills. Here is the link:
http://thebrickblogger.com/2013/09/guide-to-feeling-for-lego-minifigs-series-11/Enjoy! :)
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I love the fact he gets 100% yet he is legally blind. Pretty amazing really.
He probably does it a lot quicker than people like me who are not visually impaired in anyway.
Thanks for sharing.
When I first started to learn from William and follow his guides, I became very much aware how little I depend on touch alone to identify something. It actually became a really fun game to go through a box of minifigs and depend on touch alone to figure out what's inside.
The first time I tried I couldn't identify anything, I was so confused. But after a full box, I started to get much faster. So it is a skill we can all improve on...(c:
If you can't see then it must make it even harder to at least get the confirmation that you have the right figure.
Today was 100% for the people that required what was collected, as it almost always is. :) Occasionally things go wrong, but hey ho thats the fun of CMF collecting.
As far as William's sight, he has some very limited vision, but he does have trouble with images. Even for his articles it is always his wife who takes pictures and sends images for articles as William can't manage them alone. For identifying the minifigs he is using his fingers alone.
There is a college student (a young woman) at my martial arts school who has similar lack of vision. She can see some light and make out blurry forms up to about 3 feet on one eye, and is completely bling on the other eye. She can't make out people's faces or identify objects by sight alone. She pretty much relies on her other senses (especially hearing) to get around (and yes, she practices martial arts, is working on her doctorate in molecular biology, refuses to use a cane, and in general completely independend).
Modern devices like computers and smartphones have apps available to make life a bit easier for those lacking sight. She showed me all the cool apps she had on her phone to help her in her daily life, and the apps on her computer to help with her study and research projects.
I so much respect people like that! They remind me that I have nothing to complain about...(c:
When you depend on sight alone (I have tried that too when I didn't have a picture) it is much harder to identify parts. At least that has been my experience...(c:
I think it's great that blind people are into Lego, because they should be. It's a wonderful way for them to experience creating something. I'm just saying that side by side, a blind person and a sighted person are 100% equal when feeling for minifigs, and neither would ramp up quicker (at least not as a result of being sighted/non-sighted).
One of the interesting things I learned from William is that it is not necessarily the biggest pieces that are the easiest to identify. As a visual person I tended to go for the big parts, because big should be more visible. But in terms of sensing LEGO through our fingers what is easiest and most sure way to identify something is not necessarily the biggest item. For me this one tip speeded up my time to identify minifigs tremendously.
I just pick up the baggies, shake it so that all the small pieces fall in the same corner, then feel through them to identify the accessories. There are some exceptions when larger pieces make a minifig more obvious, but in most cases William's strategy is what makes the most sense...(c:
And I still believe that William does have an advantage when it comes to touch. His fingers are much more developed as a sensory organ than for most of us. Of course we can develop them too, but at least in my experience it does take some practice....(c;