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Test your Color IQ
- astrec 18y agoScored 18. All my troubles were in the Greens. Anyone know if that's significant? Monitor? Or I just suck at green?
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- peakok 18y agoI scored 80 on my CRT, but 0 on my LCD. Obviously the monitor is a very determining factor. So either you re a bit weaker in the greens, either it's your monitor that is. I would bet on the second possibility.
- saad0105050 18y agoScored 0 on Samsung 17" CRT :) It felt so good when I was sucking at javascript hacks.
- pmsaue0 18y agoI scored 7 on my macbook, also having problems with greens. The human eye is usually able to distinguish more shades of green than any other color -- think hunters in forested areas. Perhaps this is changing as more people stare at their monitors all day or bask in the CRT blue. Also more people are near sighted these days.
- maxklein 18y agoI scored 7 on my macbook too. Let's agree to blame the macbook.
- trenchfever 18y agoblue is where humans suck. if you've ever tried calibrating your monitor, you'll know. the hue is blue green so no surprises there.
- daniel-cussen 18y agoSeeing as other people sounded like they had a hard time, I took a long time taking the test. My eyes hurt after a while (I think it's because the light cones get saturated) so I'm taking a break. After ten minutes of taking this, I literally couldn't see straight; the lines on the page looked like squiggles. Update: got 19 (best is 0). Small problems across the map, in yellows, cyans, light purples, and pinks. http://i35.tinypic.com/2lm6mi1.jpg http://i35.tinypic.com/2lm6mi1.jpg
- sh1mmer 18y ago4 is pretty good. :) I would have thought that brightness would have been the main factor in a monitor, surely all the hues are relative. You aren't trying to pick something colour realistic from life, you are just ranking relative to the rest of the screen.
- trezor 18y agoScore 37. On my laptop LCD. This was pretty damn hard :P As a geek nitpick: Not sure I'd refer to this as "colour IQ", as I don't see how this relates to intelligence.
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- peakok 18y agoI would argue that there is indeed some kind of "color affinity", if we don't want to call it color intelligence. My father is a painter, and at some workshops people often asked him how to get some specific color or another. He told me that it was a problem he didn't understood, because he never encountered it even when he started painting. Colors just come easily to him, in a intuitive way, he never had to read theory about it. To me, there is some parallelism with the guys who are gifted at math or logic : there are a lot of things that come intuitively to them where others have to struggle. The difference is that we are more prone to call them smart than people with other sort of abilities (musicians, painters, etc.).
- davidw 18y agoI think it'd be more fun to write a bit of javascript to do it.
- crescendo 18y agoI scored 0. My strategy: first group the colors roughly by their "greenness", "brownness", etc., and then blur vision by going slightly cross-eyed, making it easier to see faults in the gradient. Adjust accordingly.
- IsaacSchlueter 18y agoYeah, I got a 4 the first time, and then a 0 doing the magic-eye trick. (On a Macbook Pro LCD.)
- binarray2000 18y agoIf you have problems with red and green tones, take this test (if you haven't already): http://www.toledo-bend.com/colorblind/ishihara.html http://www.toledo-bend.com/colorblind/ishihara.html
- manvsmachine 18y agoScored a 4 on my laptop LCD, all problems in the cyans. I found that it helped to do it kind of like a MergeSort: separate hues into 3 groups at the extremes / middle, sort each group separately, then correct any errors where they overlap. http://i33.tinypic.com/650keu.png http://i33.tinypic.com/650keu.png
- dkokelley 18y agoI only did the first bar, but I got all of those right. Some of them might have just been luck though.
- elurin 18y agoscored 0 on acer laptops' lcd.
- Hates_ 18y agoPerfect 0 http://www.ur-ban.com/galleryv2/d/15493-2/perfect_colour.png http://www.ur-ban.com/galleryv2/d/15493-2/perfect_colour.png
- lux 18y agoMe too! Surprised me, actually :) I wonder how many other people in my age group there were, it didn't say... It does look like men from 20-29 mostly fared really well according to the graph, but it would be cool to see more detail anyway.
- mixmax 18y agoI'm glad I didn't become a graphic designer. I would suck.
- KevBurnsJr 18y agoYour score: 0 You have perfect color vision!
- fauigerzigerk 18y agoMy score was 12 (on an old laptop screen). Cyans ruined my "intelligence" :)
- inglorian 18y agoThis took me about 5 mins -- score 0. Gender: female, age range: 16-19. My method: I first grouped them in a rough approximation, and then treated it like a bubble sort -- I compared two at a time and moved them if one was closer to the goal color.
- pistoriusp 18y agoI scored 904. I opened the page, clicked "Score test," and got back to work. It took me about 5 seconds. ;)
- jrockway 18y agoSame; almost. I did the first row, clicked score, and noticed that I did well in that range. Then, I didn't waste my time with the others.
- etal 18y agoI'm a sucker for charts, so I hope X-rite releases some bell-curves based on the cumulative data they're collecting here. The eye's lens tends to develop a yellow tint over time, so that suggests the older age ranges would have more points in the cyan range. And colorblindness is more common in men, so that might show up too. Or, more likely, the charts would just show which group has the best monitors. Useful marketing information, anyway.
- kyro 18y agoI can't wait to hang my perfect score on the fridge.
- louislouis 18y ago20 - arh im going blind
- whacked_new 18y agoFor those with good scores, was this effortless? I ended up running out of patience. Spending longer would have given better results, but does that miss the point?
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- pmjordan 18y agoIt does take some time, and it depends on your screen. Some TFTs have terrible colour resolution depending on gamma setting. (nowhere near 16M distinct colours) Lower-end CRTs will make it difficult too.
- omakase 18y agoWow! It really sucks being colour blind -- I scored 51 :(. Thankfully I'm not the designer at my startup. I wish I saved a screenshot to share my embarrassment.
- earth2marsh 18y agostrangely enough, this was your 51st backtype comment... and you had 51 people following you at the time...
- roundbrackets 18y agoAfter a lot of squinting I ended up with 4. I seem to have trouble in the bluish range. My eyes are hurting now.
- STHayden 18y agoI'm pretty happy with my score or 11... male, 20-29
- rainface 18y agoI see this as much a color sorting ability as it is a demonstration of your monitors color accuracy.
- rainface 18y agoI should add I tried the test on my laptop yesterday and scored a 90?, tried it on my cinema display today and scored a 7.