Opening someone else’s pull request is a different skill from writing your own code.
You have to understand their intent, spot what could go wrong, and explain the problem clearly enough for them to fix it.
“Looks good to me” is easy. Knowing whether you missed something is harder.
That’s why I built ReviewIQ, a tool for practising code review.
You choose your role, language, and seniority, review a code exercise, then get a score and feedback on the issues you caught and missed.
An early user, a self-taught developer, told me the useful part was having a mirror for his reviewing skills. That stuck with me.
When you learn independently, you can build working projects without getting much feedback on how you evaluate other people’s code.
He also caught a grading mistake: the feedback acknowledged that a supposed issue wasn’t valid, but the score still penalized him. That’s a concrete reliability problem to fix. A practice tool needs to earn your trust in its feedback.
Want to try it?
Create an account on ReviewIQ to get 5 free reviews. Pick your strongest language and try one exercise.
Then tell me: what did the feedback help you notice, and where did you disagree with it?
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