colour test

Last week I stumbled across a thread with a link to a colour perception test. I'm wondering if someone can help me find it again, I've been looking in vain. The test was quite interesting, I scored 105, which is bad! Scores of 0 or as close to 0 as possible are what the aim is.
Not sure where the thread was or who posted it, any help appreciated.

I can't help you on the website it was at, but I think I know which one you are talking about. It is pretty cool and I hope someone here finds it.

Assuming that we are talking about the same thing -

By the way, what sort of monitor did you use (LCD, widescreen, CRT) and was it calibrated properly? My first pass without spending a great deal of effort on it, on a good, calibrated CRT was 2, but one of my friend's cheaps uncalibrated laptop nowhere near that ballpark. I'm sure he thought I was nuts when I was talking about calibration but it was a good demo of why calibration on a decent monitor is so important.

I'm assuming that you mean this test

Thanks for the link David. Not sure if that's what Neale was thinking, but I remember seeing it before.

Score: 7 not bad.

Lon

Thanks for the thread, Neale, and the link, David.
I got a 14, which is okay, I guess (I know one of my eyes sees green differently from the other), but the results said another woman my age scored a 0. Wow.

Yes thanks David, thats the one!
Dan, my new monitor is an NEC 2490wuxi LCD and I have spyder2 express calibration.
I was diagnosed(?) with colourblindness as a child so was interested to check out that test.
Being colourblind (which is of course a misnomer anyway) has never caused me any serious problems apart from the embarrassment as a child in class, of being laughed at for colouring in a horse, green!!
It's only certain shades of certain colours that cause difficulty sometimes. There are many greens and browns I can look at and say with certainty what they are. I also can have problems with some shades of red and green and with blue and purple.
My belief is that everyone sees colour (along with everything else) slightly differently, and those of us who are called "colourblind" are further from the average than most.
I rushed through the test the first time around just to see how it worked, I'd like to spend a bit more time looking at the various shades to see if I can improve my score! Not that it's much use to me really, I just find it interesting, I'll probably get my partner to try it as well.
Yet another thing she'll be able to boast about no doubt !!
Thanks again.

Neale - I'm also slightly color blind - mainly I have trouble with reds in a sea of mottled green. So I can't use orange golf balls, and I can't see red flowers that well if they're small. (In fact, I've seen pics posted on here with comments about the red really popping, when I didn't notice that there was red in the pic.)

Anyway, I've tried that test a couple of times in the past and I think the best I ever did was in the 20's. Definitely not my cup of tea.

This is great, I tried it three times with my calibrated Lacie 320 (Blue Eye Pro) and got a 12, 8, and finally a 6. I tried it on an uncalibrated Dell monitor and got a 56. Makes me feel better about spending the extra money on a good monitor and a colorimeter. Thanks for posting this!

Fun test, i got 4 on my second try

For those with "color blindness", research in gene therapy is proving very succesful so far:

http://www.redorbit.com/news/health/1754716/gene_therapy_may_cure_color_blindness/index.html

Sandy r (Nurse practitioner)

I got a 4 but man did my eyes ever hurt afterwards. It was really hard to keep my eyes focused on the squares. Interestingly my 4 "errors" were all next to each other in the green-blue part of the spectrum.

That's really cool Sandy. It would have to be really cheap and simple for me to worry about "fixing" my color blindness. I don't notice it 99% of the time, but it sure is interesting when I DO notice it.

Interesting link Sandy, thanks. I'm with David, having lived (in my case ) for 50 years with it, It'd need to be very simple and cheap for me to go for treatment.

Wow, that was fun I got a 4 on my crappy iMac uncalibrated screen at work.

Wow, that was fun I got a 4 on my crappy iMac uncalibrated screen at work.