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How well do you see color?

potatoheadpotatohead Posts: 10,261
edited 2013-02-05 02:14 in General Discussion
http://www.xrite.com/custom_page.aspx?pageid=77&lang=en

This is a fun test. You sort color tiles into hue order. I got a 13 for my first pass. Very curious how different displays impact this. An idle discussion else where yielded this thing and I thought it would be of interest and fun here.
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  • Heater.Heater. Posts: 21,230
    edited 2013-02-03 16:11
    62,
    I don't get it. The result bar goes 0 to 99. But the worst score for my age range was said to be over 1500.
    So am I OK or terrible?
  • TinmukTinmuk Posts: 15
    edited 2013-02-03 16:15
    I scored 23 with most of the error in the center of the color bands.
  • ElectricAyeElectricAye Posts: 4,561
    edited 2013-02-03 16:22
    I'm a failure.
  • potatoheadpotatohead Posts: 10,261
    edited 2013-02-03 16:37
    @Heater, I think you are OK. I'm doing well for my age group (40-50), and the few older people who took this got much higher scores than yours. Be sure and try a different display too.
  • Oldbitcollector (Jeff)Oldbitcollector (Jeff) Posts: 8,091
    edited 2013-02-03 16:47
    Scored a 40, not sure if this is good or bad.
  • RDL2004RDL2004 Posts: 2,554
    edited 2013-02-03 17:01
    I was in the industrial coatings (paint) business for almost 25 years. Color matching is pretty important in that field. We had to take one of those tests every few years to make sure we could still see color correctly. It was done with actual ceramic tiles of the various colors. It seems like there were more than 50 of them. One year I remember some sales people from Macbeth (inventors of the "Macbeth ColorChecker", now part of X-Rite) paid us a visit. They sold color matching equipment such as light booths and color computers. The back of their business cards were a solid blue color which appeared to be all one color, but it only looked that way under fluorescent light. If taken outside in sunlight or held under an incandescent lamp, the left half would be a completely different shade of blue than the right side.
  • Dr_AculaDr_Acula Posts: 5,484
    edited 2013-02-03 17:18
    I scored 3. Is lower better?
  • W9GFOW9GFO Posts: 4,010
    edited 2013-02-03 17:25
    Heater. wrote: »
    62,
    I don't get it. The result bar goes 0 to 99. But the worst score for my age range was said to be over 1500.
    So am I OK or terrible?

    The 0 to 99 bar indicates how well you did for your age range. If the mark is in the middle it is average. There is no number assigned to the 0 to 99 bar.

    My score was 37. According to the bar I did just slightly better than average. However, it does look like the mark is right where 37 would fall.

    It would be interesting to know where that mark falls for others and what their scores are.
  • W9GFOW9GFO Posts: 4,010
    edited 2013-02-03 17:26
    Dr_Acula wrote: »
    I scored 3. Is lower better?

    0 would mean you made no errors. So yeah, 3 is really, really good.
  • RDL2004RDL2004 Posts: 2,554
    edited 2013-02-03 17:40
    I got a 4. Toward the middle was pretty hard. I could tell some weren't in the right place, but everywhere I moved them they looked worse. I wish it showed you where you were wrong afterwards. Pretty fun.
  • lanternfishlanternfish Posts: 366
    edited 2013-02-03 22:23
    Ouch/ I scored 68 and I work in theatre and did lighting design.

    EDIT: Rewtried under different lighting conditions - 24
  • SRLMSRLM Posts: 5,045
    edited 2013-02-03 22:50
    I scored "You have perfect color vision!", which appears to be a 0.

    My monitor might help me here. I have a pretty nice monitor (HPZR30w), driven by an nvidia card with the digital vibrance set to 100. The digital vibrance setting seems to make colors "pop" and become more "alive". I don't know how it works, but it's really fun to play with.

    It might also help that I'm in the 20-29 range.
  • potatoheadpotatohead Posts: 10,261
    edited 2013-02-03 23:02
    Yes it might. I've been wondering about that myself. There are times when my memory of something doesn't quite match what I see today... I also tend to run systems with the saturation turned down. Often, I see "crushed" colors that are just too vivid or saturated to make sense. Usually, this is associated with LCD displays of various kinds.

    Tomorrow I'll do this on a good quality display. Hope the score isn't worse!
  • Beau SchwabeBeau Schwabe Posts: 6,568
    edited 2013-02-03 23:59
    I scored a 3 ... slight trouble in blue/green ... I knew this already, I notice a slight difference in blue and green between my left eye versus my right eye.... Green and blue are slightly darker with my left eye.

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  • GarethGareth Posts: 278
    edited 2013-02-04 04:20
    I had "Lucky Seven" ...i dont know if i am impressed with my eyesight or my screens definition ....
  • ercoerco Posts: 20,259
    edited 2013-02-04 06:22
    22, same as my age and IQ.
  • TorTor Posts: 2,010
    edited 2013-02-04 07:57
    11. Male, age 53.
    Edit: 4:
    Turned the contrast and brightness up on my monitor (I prefer low contrast, low brightness for normal display) and it dropped to 4. All errors in a narrow band between the upper blue-green just before it turns magenta.
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  • MoskogMoskog Posts: 554
    edited 2013-02-04 08:15
    39 here, age 49..............................
  • lardomlardom Posts: 1,659
    edited 2013-02-04 08:17
    Great link. Didn't take the test yet but I must email this to my friends.
  • ZootZoot Posts: 2,227
    edited 2013-02-04 08:52
    Thanks for sharing this. Great resource. I do design for a living, and often have clients with problems "seeing" color on their monitors, especially from monitor to monitor.

    My score -- 12. I might have done better, but in all honesty, I needed to move on with my morning...
    I scored a 3 ... slight trouble in blue/green ... I knew this already, I notice a slight difference in blue and green between my left eye versus my right eye.... Green and blue are slightly darker with my left eye.

    Very common in men as we age -- and one eye usually drifts more.
  • Bobb FwedBobb Fwed Posts: 1,119
    edited 2013-02-04 08:53
    I'm a photographer/videographer, so I guess it's good that I see colors well "You have perfect color vision!
    A lower score is better, with ZERO being the perfect score. The bars above show the regions of the color spectrum where hue discrimination is low."

    But I'm 28 so young eyes seem to help.
    I am on a really cheap monitor that is several years old. I don't think it is much help.

    What I don't get is why the "high score" for my gender/age range is "444445389". Maybe they messed up on the query, and did a SUM instead of a AVG.
  • Beau SchwabeBeau Schwabe Posts: 6,568
    edited 2013-02-04 09:12
    @Zoot

    "Very common in men as we age -- and one eye usually drifts more." ... Since the difference in hue between eyes has been with me for awhile, I blame it on a dumb thing I did as a kid involving a RED filter, a telescope, and the Sun. ...BTW) I turn 44 in March
  • varnonvarnon Posts: 184
    edited 2013-02-04 09:51
    I didn't do so well 121.
    I'm a little color blind, mostly with red/greens. It gets worse as things get darker and smaller.
    I used to be able to pass the tests where you could see a letter or number amongst a bunch of dots, but I can't see those anymore.

    Despite not doing well on tests, its not really noticeable in real life. I only know about it because of tests.
    Resistors are a pain in the *** though. But the multimeter helps with that.
  • ercoerco Posts: 20,259
    edited 2013-02-04 10:01
    If you do NOTHING but click "score test", you'll get a random number from 799-1100. So if you don't have a lot of time or poor color vision, save yourself the aggravation... :)
  • potatoheadpotatohead Posts: 10,261
    edited 2013-02-04 10:59
    We are so darn geeky! Yeah, that test is killing a lot of time with my peers right now.
  • Heater.Heater. Posts: 21,230
    edited 2013-02-04 11:24
    erco,
    If you do NOTHING but click "score test", you'll get a random number from 799-1100.
    Damn, never thought of that.
    I went out off my way to sort in the wrong order and only got 500 and something!

    My colour resolution must be worse than I thought.
  • Beau SchwabeBeau Schwabe Posts: 6,568
    edited 2013-02-04 14:18
    "We are so darn geeky! Yeah, that test is killing a lot of time with my peers right now. " - yes, but the silver lining is that anyone that took the test, fears that there might be something wrong with their vision sub-consciously or not. As humans we seek peace of mind and re-assurance, so we are compelled to take the test. I took my test late at night with tired eyes before bed, so my time was perhaps better utilized than during the day when other things needed to be done. :-)
  • User NameUser Name Posts: 1,451
    edited 2013-02-04 16:28
    This was a fun test. Thanks for posting it here, potatohead.

    Spent a minute on the first line, 20 seconds on the last. It seemed to get easier with practice. Anyway, I scored 12 on a cheap laptop. Then I went downstairs to use a better monitor. Scored a 3. Still not as good as Dr. Acula's score.

    I'm about Heater's age.
  • Martin_HMartin_H Posts: 4,051
    edited 2013-02-04 16:55
    I scored 25 which is seems like it is a pretty good score for a 47 year old male. Like others most of my errors tended to be in the middle of the spectrum. I definitely had the feeling blocks weren't out of place, but couldn't seen any difference when I swapped them.
  • JohnZhong (SimplyTronics)JohnZhong (SimplyTronics) Posts: 9
    edited 2013-02-05 02:14
    I got 12.
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