still he had trouble finding words to describe the processes he believed were operating ... this investigator made extensive efforts to test the subjects claim of psychic abilities ... through a number of experiments it was quickly established that mr. howard was able to correctly identify cards presented to him over 85 percent of the time , and to guess numbers ranging from 1-10 , 1-100 and then 1-1000 at astounding levels of accuracy ... well this at least was good .