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Perfect vision exceeds twenty twenty metrics

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Everyone brags about having 20/20 vision, completely unaware that it just means they are aggressively average. This metric simply indicates you can clearly see at 20 feet what a normal human should see at 20 feet. True optical perfection is actually closer to 20/10, where you can see from 20 feet what normal peasants need to be 10 feet away to spot.

Perfect vision exceeds twenty twenty metrics
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