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What's My Color IQ?
- hatsunearu 8y agohttps://imgur.com/a/3j3DJ5n https://imgur.com/a/3j3DJ5n Perfect score, but someone forgot to validate their inputs :P
- skellera 8y agoSame happened for me but I got a score of 2.
- perl4ever 8y agoI got 2 as well, but I also got frustrated when moving tiles didn't seem to register or something. I tried again, and it definitely seems like there are tiles out of place and I try to change them but they snap back sometimes.
- wvenable 8y agoIn some cases moving one tile over another didn't work but it did work in the opposite direction. Definitely made the test a bit more difficult because it wasn't always obvious when a change had or hadn't worked.
- perl4ever 8y agoI start doubting my perceptions when I can't tell if my actions are having an effect.
- MisterBastahrd 8y agoMe as well. Funny thing is that with a non-calibrated monitor, I scored better than everyone in my art department including the art director... and I'm just a developer who knows a fringe level of Photoshop / Illustrator.
- wallace_f 8y agoI scored 0 on a phone in quick time, and many other people here are reporting perfect scores as well. The fact that the scores of your art dpt are noticeably lower is thought-provoking.
- galfarragem 8y agoNot necessarily. Maybe the best student of my course (Architecture) discovered that he was color blind some years later.
- m1el 8y agoYep. https://i.imgur.com/L23YNYA.png https://i.imgur.com/L23YNYA.png
- jcelerier 8y agohow's life going with the little choppers ? are they still on a refined gasoline diet ?
- murkle 8y agoSame for me Best Score for your Gender -2147483648 Worst Score for your Gender 2147483647
- userbinator 8y agoAlternatively: how good is your monitor's colour accuracy? I find it a little odd that they didn't mention that as being one of the main factors that can affect the outcome of the test.
- noncoml 8y agoOr the settings of the monitor. I did it in "reader" mode and got a score of 19 struggling as a few boxes looked the same. Switched to "photo" mode and got a score of 0 easily.
- snvzz 8y agoWide gamut ips. 0 on first attempt.
- exikyut 8y agoAnecdata: I too got a score of 0 on my first try (having never seen a test like this before) using the builtin LCD on my old ThinkPad X61. I may have leaned around a little to take advantage of the slight vertical color shifting in this particular LCD but that was about it.
- narag 8y agoThere were a couple of cases where two cells seemed wrong, no matter the order, so I also suspected the monitor is the culprit. Also, what's the scale? They say lower is better but how better?
- fragsworth 8y agoThis is probably also extra difficult if you have f.lux or something similar running.
- neom 8y agoFarnsworth Munsell is based on a subset of sRGB, so unless you're using a cathode ray tube, your eyes, not your screen, will discern the hue.
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- lancewiggs 8y agoA messsge blocks the site (without ability to remove) to tell me to rotate my phone - but how I use my device is not anyone’s business.
- gsich 8y agooh look we got a rebel over here
- JeanMarcS 8y agoBest Score for your Gender -2147483648 Worst Score for your Gender 2147483647 Hum... I thought 0 was the lowest score :) (Made 2 by the way, but maybe the night shift on my phone have something to do with it)
- dkeeton 8y agoI got 2 also with a night shift -- redshift -t 6500k:3900k
- natecavanaugh 8y agoThey mention that 0 is the perfect score, though I'm not sure how the highest and lowest they mention relate to one another (let alone how someones score could be that far off), but I also got a score of 2 and also in Night Shift mode. My weakest area was 17 (a greenish-teal like slice of the spectrum), which would make some sense in how yellow/orange relate to the colors green and blue.
- gnicholas 8y agoIt would be interesting if they factored in time spent. I'd also be interested to know if people have different strategies for solving these. I first arranged them into left and right halves, then went through and tweaked the order until I was happy. Toward the end, I did a couple reversals just to see if it looked better or worse. In all cases it looked worse and I switched it back. Final score was 0.
- lloyd-christmas 8y agoI'm curious what you'd be looking for in time spent. It seems to me that it's just a true or false. I personally did it intermittently while I was gaming on my other monitor. If anything, I'd say adding a confidence weighting on each color scale would gather more data.
- l0b0 8y agoJust did a rough ordering and then went through swapping each to see if that improved matters, and ended at a score of 0. I wonder if years of amateur photography and editing has helped, similar to grinding through IQ tests.
- kqr 8y agoThe swapping technique seems powerful to me. I do these with a type of bubble sort algorithm which works surprisingly well.
- wingerlang 8y agoDoubtful, I did the same and got a 0. No photography experience.
- tempestn 8y agoI did basically the same, and also ended up with 0. Likewise I didn't end up finding any problems swapping adjacent blocks, but it did make it very clear that the order was correct.
- jack9 8y agoI used the same method, got the same result(s).
- gsich 8y agoScore 6 i got some problems with Ishihara color tables though (but only tried the wikipedia ones)
- lightedman 8y agoZero, but I cheated and just utilized the negative image cast by a crappy TN LCD monitor, viewed from the side, to discern the hue.
- dmead 8y agoit's bugged Best Score for your Gender -2147483648
- skolemtotem 8y agoit's not bugged, it's been hacked
- dvh 8y agoNot to brag but as 35 I got 0 on $49 phone. Exupery would be so proud of me.
- miguelrochefort 8y ago0
- daemonhunter 8y agoPerfect score and I am supposedly slightly colorblind in the blue/green range.
- hathawsh 8y agoThis particular color test is tricky because it's not a simple linear progression. After finishing the test, I converted the RGB values to HSV and found irregular jumps in hue (sometimes 3 degrees, sometimes 6) along with nonlinear changes in saturation and value levels. The irregularity probably makes it a better test, but it's annoying because when it's "perfect" it still looks ragged. :-)
- SuperPaintMan 8y ago> The irregularity probably makes it a better test, but it's annoying This made me take a look at what they're doing and the sRGB vals map fairly close to their Munsell counterparts. The value has been fixed which is nice for this kind of test, but yeah non-linear hue progression. Probably helps as a discernment test considering how much closer the center colors are to each other. [Possibly unordered] 10R 5/6, 2.5yr 5/6, 7.5YR 5/4, 5YR 5/6, 7.5YR 5/6, 10YR 5/6, 2.5Y 6/6, 5Y 6/6 [0]https://github.com/germ/munsellScript https://github.com/germ/munsellScript
- CryoLogic 8y agoC'mon HN. Yeah there is no backend validation on the min and max scores. Doesn't mean you have to hack it.
- SubiculumCode 8y agoReferring to the broken min max scores? Should put median though.
- stuntkite 8y agoYeah, that was lame. I mean the test was mildly interesting, but they could have provided a few more stats and not just the min and max for my gender. Maybe if they had decided to make a graph they would have thought about form validation and acquired useful results.
- jambalaya 8y agoProud owner of a score of 16. I'm red-green colorblind with f.lux running.
- vatys 8y ago6 with night shift on 0 with night shift off (0 is perfect score) Interesting how much the yellow shift impacts the ability to discern color difference. My night shift slider is only about a quarter of the way up. Good reminder to not do color critical work with night shift on.
- trophycase 8y agoAlso got a 6 with night shift on. Haven't tested without yet, but I was having difficulties with a few because of what I felt was the night shift. EDIT: Just tested without night shift and got 0. Very iteresting :)
- LambdaComplex 8y agoI have redshift on and I got a 0. YMMV?
- wnevets 8y agoI got a score of 74 without doing anything.
- gpvos 8y agoFigures. 0 is the perfect score.
- matthberg 8y agoA similar thing from different people in which you have to match colors before a timer runs down: http://color.method.ac/ http://color.method.ac/
- Fnoord 8y agoThe time addition makes it very stressful for me, and that makes the game a very different experience than the article's one.
- redka 8y agoI've got perfect score even though I'm regularly unable to name simple colors correctly
- nottorp 8y agoSame here... looks like distinguishing colors doesn't mean you can be bothered to name them.
- amiller2571 8y agoI got a prefect score and I didn't really try. I'm not sure their game is working correctly.
- asdojasdosadsa 8y agoWell, that was different, haven't actually seen one of these. Thanks for sharing. Ps: Best Score for your Gender -2147483648 Worst Score for your Gender 2147483647 :/
- mrmattyboy 8y agoYeh - I saw that.. someone's been having a play!
- hoppelhase 8y agoReminds me of the Android game "I love hue".
- Kaibeezy 8y agoSomeone’s made a game of this. Blendoku - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blendoku https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blendoku More engaging than expected. Kid (7) loves it.
- wruza 8y agoI barely see these color differences, but swapping pairs clearly shows what’s wrong. It is like a bubblesorting by hand. Score 0 (iphone se screen)
- tomxor 8y ago> swapping pairs clearly shows what’s wrong. It is like a bubblesorting by hand. I found exactly the same, looking at the overall gradient only gets you so far. I wonder if the magnitude of the statistic of 1 in 255 women and 1 in 12 men have more to with how many people figure out how to effectively sort things without being explicitly told than it has to do with colour - perhaps if an equivalent subtle sorting test was done with something other than colour it would reveal a similar statistic.
- foob 8y agoThe difference is definitely genetic. Colorblindness is generally caused by recessive genes that are part of the X chromosome. That means that the proportion of men who are colorblind is basically equal to the proportion of X chromosomes with one of these recessive genes. Women have two sets, so they need the gene on both chromosomes in order to exhibit colorblindness. This means that their proportion of colorblindness is roughly the square of that of men (actually less because there are different types of colorblindness).
- tomxor 8y agoYes but i'm talking about the statistic having a potentially invalid baseline because of the method of testing gives some people an advantage separate from physical ability to perceive colour depending on how they complete the test.
- Moodles 8y agoCould we not also correct by simply telling the participants this technique (I used it too and have the same experience of only being 100% sure after bubble sort)
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- baalimago 8y agoColor _IQ_, really?
- cup-of-tea 8y ago> Best Score for your Gender -2147483648 > Worst Score for your Gender 2147483647 Who did this? Come on... own up.
- rossdavidh 8y ago" Best Score for your Gender -2147483648 Worst Score for your Gender 2147483647" Well ok then, I guess my score is about in the middle. But I think maybe they have something going on that's not quite what they intended.
- divanvisagie 8y agoChallenge accepted https://gist.github.com/divanvisagie/fb490ef8a9c6c93c57ed827b74e04cd0 https://gist.github.com/divanvisagie/fb490ef8a9c6c93c57ed827...
- marcoperaza 8y agoDoes this work? Can anyone who is actually color-blind confirm that they can't get a perfect score?
- _kush 8y agoI am colorblind (mild protan) and I got a perfect score.
- michaelmcmillan 8y ago> Best Score for your Gender -2147483648 > Worst Score for your Gender 2147483647 Sigh, computers.
- ryandrake 8y agoMore like "sigh, programmers". Guarantee the computer is doing exactly what it's being told to do.
- michaelmcmillan 8y agoI'd say that's implicit. A computer consists of hundreds of abstractions constructed by apes like ourselves.
- nealabq 8y agoExperimentation suggests the scores are always even and range from 0 thru 128 (inclusive). And the initial layouts usually score between 70 and 100. I would expect the initial layout scores to center around 64 instead of 84. My sample size is not large, about 20.
- arikrak 8y agoSwapping didn't work when swapping the 2nd and 3rd to elements.
- Moodles 8y agoI got a perfect score. I don't know if my color differentiating ability is particularly great. I think a good algorithm is: put them in roughly the right order and then (2) do bubble sort.
- snissn 8y agoI'm red green color blind and scored a zero (perfect score) on my Macbook pro
- Tyrannosaur 8y agoI've had practice for this test- had this android game recommended to me a couple months ago. It's not bad. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.zutgames.ilovehue https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.zutgames.i...
- jraph 8y agoTo me, this feels like a clever ad for their products, where most people will feel good because they get perfect score if not colorblind and will want to read will being receptive. Usage of term "IQ" may further flatter ego and attract people to do the test. I admit enjoying doing the test. I think I would have liked something like "ah ah, you were wrong for these colors!". I'm still interested in a color perception test.