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Ability Areas

Learn about the most important abilities for Coin, Vending, and Amusement Machine Servicers and Repairers. Also, find out how proficient you have to be in each ability.

Importance*More Info
1.Manual Dexterity70
2.Finger Dexterity65
3.Wrist-Finger Speed60
4.Control Precision55
Number Facility55
Problem Sensitivity55
7.Information Ordering50
* Importance out of 100

Score Key
  Importance for success in this profession
  Level of proficiency needed

Ability Area Scores

Manual Dexterity
The ability to quickly move your hand, your hand together with your arm, or your two hands to grasp, manipulate, or assemble objects.
70
43
Screw a light bulb into a light socketPack oranges in crates as quickly as possiblePerform open heart surgery with surgical instruments
Finger Dexterity
The ability to make precisely coordinated movements of the fingers of one or both hands to grasp, manipulate, or assemble very small objects.
65
48
Put coins in a parking meterAttach small knobs to stereo equipment on an assembly linePut together the inner workings of a small wrist watch
Wrist-Finger Speed
The ability to make fast, simple, repeated movements of the fingers, hands, and wrists.
60
27
Use a manual pencil sharpenerCarve roast beef in a cafeteriaType a document at 90 words per minute
Control Precision
The ability to quickly and repeatedly adjust the controls of a machine or a vehicle to exact positions.
55
46
Adjust a room light with a dimmer switchAdjust farm tractor controlsDrill a tooth
Number Facility
The ability to add, subtract, multiply, or divide quickly and correctly.
55
32
Add 2 and 7Balance a checkbookCompute the interest payment that should be generated from an investment
Problem Sensitivity
The ability to tell when something is wrong or is likely to go wrong. It does not involve solving the problem, only recognizing there is a problem.
55
41
Recognize that an unplugged lamp won't workRecognize from the mood of prisoners that a prison riot is likely to occurRecognize an illness at an early stage of a disease when there are only a few symptoms
Information Ordering
The ability to arrange things or actions in a certain order or pattern according to a specific rule or set of rules (e.g., patterns of numbers, letters, words, pictures, mathematical operations).
50
39
Put things in numerical orderFollow the correct steps to make changeAssemble a nuclear warhead