How Well Do You See Colour?

A friend just sent me a link to test my ability to distinguish between different hues of colour. I did the test fairly quick (excuses, excuses!), nevertheless I was pretty surprised I didn't score higher.

The result was 21 for my gender and age-group; 0 being the best, 1520 being the worst, though they diplomatically don't use the term "worst" ;^)

The intro to the test reads:

"FACT: 1 out of 255 women and 1 out of 12 men have some form of color vision deficiency.
Take the online color challenge, based on the official FM100 Hue Test by X-Rite."

If you happen to be interested in taking this simple (!) test yourself, here's the link:

http://www.xrite.com/custom_page.aspx?PageID=77&Lang=en

And I'd be interested to know how many of you end up scoring 0, which in their grades is equal to perfect!

31 for me. I honesty could not differentiate some of the subtle changes.
Very interesting!
Sandy

Mis-typed...meant 21 - still not so great compared to all of you eagle eyes!

I got 0, though I'm more impressed with the fact that I took a test like this at 5:30 in the morning.

Max

That was fun, and informative. I scored 19, and was pretty flabbergasted that I did that well for these 60 year old eyes. Now, I will need to sit around for a few minutes while my eyes uncross! I may have to try this again at home tonight on a calibrated monitor to see if that makes any difference.

I scored 3. I'll have to study up so I can do better next time.

I scored 15 with fresh eyes. I think I'll try this test again at the end of the day to see how I score with tired eyes.

Damn, I got 4. I thought I had it nailed.

I've seen and taken this test before, but can't remember my results the first go 'round.

Interesting exercise, thanks for posting.

Lon

2nd times a charm. Perfect! 0

I got a 3 which I'm pleased with on this awful work monitor. Two co-workers got a 16 and a 17 respectively, though their ages are nearly double mine for what it's worth.

My score = 8
Worse in blue/green areas.
Age=66. Best in age = 0.
No wonder my photos don't draw much attention.... !!!!
the fisch
Wife got 8.
1 employee got 26.

Scored 3. I guess that's good enough. At least for B&W photography.

And for what it's worth, I wonder how people achieve scores above 1000 - as I scored 910 by submitting the initial order without making any changes...

Great test, I should have waited to do it in a dark room but I am not very patient as it is I scored a 4 . Fun challenge! My excuse for not getting a perfect score is having a headache behind the right eye !!! Will try again when the advil kicks in!

O.K. I re-did the test and I'm perfect ,I'm prefect , I'm perfect !!!! Man I have got to get a life!!!!

I was very surprised that I scored a 0, I'm 42 years old. Thanks Ashley for a bit of a diversion.

Thanks for posting your results Sandy, Max, Bill, Kerry, Mark, Lon, Luke, Larry, Basil, Lorna, and Nate :^)

I've thinking about getting into B & W for a while now, perhaps this is the nudge I needed to take the plunge ;^)

Ashley, it would be cool to see a similar test that was all gray scale.

I got a surprising 4, with those 4 all next to each other in the bottom row. I guess my eyes are better at age 40 than I thought :).

I got a 4 too, and like Rob all next to each other in the bottom row. Not sure if there really is an issue there or if my type A hurry up and get it over self kicked in....

Peter

I've taken this a bunch of times over the years, and never gotten much better than a 40. But I am slightly red-green color blind, so I guess that's OK.

And for what it's worth, I wonder how people achieve scores above 1000 - as I scored 910 by submitting the initial order without making any changes...

It comes up slightly differently when you reload, Basil. Without touching anything you will get between 800-1100 as far as I can tell.

I have done this a few times. as well. I my average is about 45. like David, my color acuity is weak in the lighter hues of cyan/magenta-red/green; a fact I've known about for some time.

Harley always points out that my images have too much cyan, or they are too cool, or both. I am glad he does!

--P

David - yes, of course there's some variability in the score of the unmodified puzzle. I'm just saying that those scores of 1520 mentioned in some posts and is also given as a reference on that website probably don't reflect any serious attempt at solving the puzzle. Which is in some way a pity, as it would be interesting to see real figures as to what the distribution of the performance is throughout the population (or well, the people taking the test).

Pretty interesting. I scored a zero.

this is has been posted several times in the RMNP forum. I think the first time i took it i got a couple wrong--but i got a 0 the second time around.

Got 15 with 49-year-old eyes on a 6-year-old Dell 2405 monitor, but I thought I'd have done better, the hues weren't hard to differentiate, or so I thought. This means only one thing:

"Honey, I need a new monitor!"

I scored a 0 with 49 year old eyes on a Macbook Pro laptop.

I scored a 4, which I am very happy with. I thought it was tedious at first, but then it got fun. The blues and the darkest shades were the hardest for me.

15 for me. I guess i should practice more.