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Interestingly, I have a similar experience (and not only compared to my spouse), yet I’ve only played Tetris maybe 3 times. People like to quip that I must play a lot of Tetris!


Same for me, people always say I must be great at Tetris, I might be good at Tetris, I don't know...never played. I do know however, I happened to have excellent spatial reasoning skills, don't need a map, strong visual memory, etc etc. I suspect other folks good at packing cars are probably strong with spatial reasoning and memory.

Seems there is some research into this - The neural basis of Tetris gameplay: implicating the role of visuospatial processing: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12144-021-02081-z




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