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I'm 37 and have a hard time parsing clock faces, I remember having a hard time with it in kindergarten and they basicaly wrote it of as me being a little prick and refusing to do it right


I was very surprised that anyone at all would find digital displays harder to read than an old-style clock face. Learned something new just now. I'm 37 too.


Same. I can do it. But not fast.


Also same, this seems to be related to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyscalculia


I am just apparently very bad at estimating which hand is the longer one (if there's not a huge amount of difference). Once I figured that out... reading the time is not a problem.


Do you where one strapped to your body at all times? If you did, I bet you'd find it more intuitive.


I wore an analog watch for about 15 years and never hit the point where it was easier for me to read than a digital display.


Same for me. My house had loads of analog clocks when I was growing up, I had one for a watch for over a decade, but still it was always a little bit harder to figure out than digital for me.




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