What Does 20/20 Mean?
Known as “normal” vision, 20/20 means you’re able to clearly see an object at a distance of 20 feet, explains Craig See, M.D., an ophthalmologist at Cleveland Clinic’s Cole Eye Institute. For someone with 20/60 vision to see clearly, they must be 20 feet from an object that a person with normal vision can see at 60 feet. If you’ve ever wondered how a batter can accurately aim for a ball racing toward them at triple-digit speed, the secret could be in their eyes: The average Major League Baseball player has 20/12 vision, See says.