Two handed coordination test

[Mattmatt]

Does anyone have any tips for practicing on the new Two Handed Coordination test for driving? (I've passed all others except that & the structured interview) last time I failed (in Feb) I was told I was too slow, but with amazing accuracy.... Colleagues have told me that they whizzed through it and made mistakes on it, & passed it. (but most of them are gamers & use the controllers. I now have the opportunity again & need to give it my shot as it it's the second of my two lives....

Is there anything online?

I don't have a game console...

Cheers in advance.

 

[Louby]

I didn't kike this one but you can go out of the line, it's how fast you get back in is what they are looking for, and to be honest the controls of the Xbox and ps4 Arnt like those lol

 

[SPADTrap]

Does anyone have any tips for practicing on the new Two Handed Coordination test for driving? (I've passed all others except that & the structured interview) last time I failed (in Feb) I was told I was too slow, but with amazing accuracy.... Colleagues have told me that they whizzed through it and made mistakes on it, & passed it. (but most of them are gamers & use the controllers. I now have the opportunity again & need to give it my shot as it it's the second of my two lives....

Is there anything online?

I don't have a game console...

Cheers in advance.

I guess you could try to draw a shape with both hands at the same time? Or draw a shape and follow it with both hands at the same time? That was in my practice material anyway!

 

[Mattmatt]

I guess you could try to draw a shape with both hands at the same time? Or draw a shape and follow it with both hands at the same time? That was in my practice material anyway!

You do get a set of shapes to try with the practice material; but it's just not the same in my opinion... as I can whiz through them easy, it's the joy sticks that get me, left hand is left to right and the right hand is up and down. suppose we'll just have to see

 

[Memetim]

I planned to drive my sons remote control car around some drawn out shapes on the floor. The up/down left/right was the opposite way round, but I figured it still would be helpful with getting used to doing opposite things with my hands. Unfortunately I ended up not having the spare time, but luckily ended up passing anyway.

 

[Pepperami]

Not really a lot you can do to practice this one barr doing the practice material they send you

Tip that worked for me

Hold the handles with both hands, but the hands resting on the base of the unit

I managed to do that and it felt much more stable

You do if I remember get a practice go, so try it that way first maybe, if its not comfortable, try something different, but I found my hands much more stable and like has been said, if you go out the line it isn't too much of a problem, its how quickly you get back inside the lines and rectify your mistake

 

[Jim88]

Best not to go so slowly that it takes ages, just to avoid going out of the lines. You can afford to drift a little providing you get back inside quickly, but don't panic and yo-yo in and out, just freeze for a second, breathe, continue. You will get faster, and if what I read is true, you get points for improvement over the 10 attempts

 

[Dynamonic]

I was horrified when I realized how sensitive the joysticks were when I did it back in January.

The nervous shakes of my hands reflected accurately on screen!

I went out the grid a couple of times but was relieved when the examiner told me I had passed with flying colours!

Just work as fast and as accurate as you can. It does takes a short while to get used to the controls, but you should find you pick it up and get better and better with every attempt.

I found the test with the flashing photos the toughest of the computer tests.

 

[G136GREYHOUND]

I passed the one handed co-ordination test when I was 12.

Try patting your head and rubbing your stomach alternating between each hand !

 

[JCLeeds]

There is a 2 hand practice test CD for PC available to buy, from the How2Become series. You can google it and buy from Amazon. I bought all of these. Be wary of them - some of them are very very similar to the real tests but in my opinion just different enough for you to be falsely prepared...

Anyway I thought of all of them the 2 hand test practice did help me. The difficulty however is you dont know how the marking is done in the practice compared to the real. I flew through my real one very fast but I did leave the track a lot. I was hazarding a guess that they wanted speed. I finished the test ages before the guy next to me who looked way more accurate but a lot slower....

All I can say is that I passed, though I dont know how much by because OPC are refusing to give me any feedback other than 'pass'.

 

[cwjohnstone]

I was horrified when I realized how sensitive the joysticks were when I did it back in January.

The nervous shakes of my hands reflected accurately on screen!

I went out the grid a couple of times but was relieved when the examiner told me I had passed with flying colours!

Just work as fast and as accurate as you can. It does takes a short while to get used to the controls, but you should find you pick it up and get better and better with every attempt.

I found the test with the flashing photos the toughest of the computer tests.

What's the test with the flashing photos?

 

[Dynamonic]

What's the test with the flashing photos?

It's a test where an image of a traffic scene flashes up on the screen for about 2 seconds and disappears again, and you have to select from a set list what appeared in the image. (Eg. Traffic lights, pedestrians, road signs, street signs, cyclists.)

There are several of these images to work through in the test.

 

[Biff]

IIRC You get two practise runs on the 2 Hand test. However, if you don't go right to the very end you can go backwards and forwards as much as you like. There is no time limit on this part of the test, so it's down to you to decide when to finish the practise runs and go onto the real thing. I found that there was one part where it was impossible to stay on the track.
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I found the test with the flashing photos the toughest of the computer tests.

Yes, I agree with you on that!

 

[Pepperami]

Yeah agreed the photos one was hard

The practice materials for me for that were kitchen photos and you had to remember which items where in the photo and which were not

Doing it on the computer screens for the test you really had what seemed like a second before the picture was gone I found that extremely difficult

 

[387star]

Yeah agreed the photos one was hard

The practice materials for me for that were kitchen photos and you had to remember which items where in the photo and which were not

Doing it on the computer screens for the test you really had what seemed like a second before the picture was gone I found that extremely difficult

Agree I suppose memorising the items to look for helps once you see say traffic lights you have one so move on... You don't count how many times they appear only if they are in the picture

I seem to remember two shapes with the co-ordination test or the same one back to front but apparently the shape is the same

Regarding the flashing grey box several on here noted the grey appears to flash darker and darker for a while (happens with a long string of grey boxes appearing which don't alter to black) is this a trick of the imagination or is the contrast altered during the test???
Another forum user:

I'm looking for comments on the WAFV test, from those that have done it, as I would be interested to hear of others experiences. I obviously need to be vague as I am employed by the TOC in another role.

Three of us that I know of, all short sighted and wear glasses, have had the same issue and all failed on this same issue, having passed every other part of the process. Our TOC puts the tests and MMI at the end of the process.

I sat down to do the test, very limited instructions given unlike the written tests. It was also in the middle of other tests and other people at a different point in them in the same room so no opportunity to ask questions, again unlike the written tests where you do them one by one together.

So I did the practise. Probably about a minute of very dark grey squares on a white background occasionally going black, and responding to that.

Then press green to start the test and off I go. After about 10 minutes, and having seen several of them go to black and responded, I assume there was a long sequence of (dark) grey squares, and as they continued they started to look black. As if they were coming up black. I started to panic thinking the sequence had changed, and to react to every one appearing. After probably around 10 consecutive I thought 'this can't be right' and sat back and stared at the screen and stopped clicking. After some time one went black again and I reacted, but knew that it was too late and I had stuffed it up.

Ive read on here about it being a 'light grey' flashing square, this was definitely dark grey. Has anyone else had this problem? To me it is an issue, as the problem wasn't concentration, as I would have been fine with more contrast so I knew the dark grey box didn't appear black. Have my TOC got the contrast setting wrong?

 

[Jim88]

Either a trick of the eye or a fault with the screen. It's only ever white, one shade of grey or black.

 

[Polar]

Its your eyes i know what your on about as i could swear i saw different shades at certain points but your eyes play tricks when you stare at something like that for any length of time.

At the end of the day you just have to really concentrate so that you only react when it flashes to black and ignore everything else.

And i dont wear glasses.

 

[Doobyjangler]

Its your eyes i know what your on about as i could swear i saw different shades at certain points but your eyes play tricks when you stare at something like that for any length of time.

At the end of the day you just have to really concentrate so that you only react when it flashes to black and ignore everything else.

And i dont wear glasses.

Yep you're right, definitely. Let's be frank - that's the main point of the exercise to highlight people who are perhaps more focused than others and who are likely to be well suited to coping with the undoubted visual fatigue.