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Online Color Challenge: How Well Do You See Color?

33 points by pg 13y ago

bfigares 13y ago
I would love to see the score distribution and the particular zones where color discrimination is low for the whole population. In my case it seems blue is slightly problematic. Is there anything like this in the webpage besides individual scores?
- DanBC 13y ago
  I found the third row hardest to sort. Is that the same for most people?
colmvp 13y ago
Being an artist, I'm curious as how PG will score on this.
- pg 13y ago
  14
danmaz74 13y ago
This test not only measures your color acuity, but also your patience...
- Zariel 13y ago
  And your monitors colour accuracy.
- fhars 13y ago
  And the color calibration of your screen...
shawndumas 13y ago
I got a 15... but mostly because it was tedious.
jessedhillon 13y ago
For the sake of comparability, here's my result (score, 11) http://imgur.com/Emd4KDZ http://imgur.com/Emd4KDZ
clarry 13y ago
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6417143 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6417143
seldo 13y ago
I scored zero: "You have perfect color vision!"
- brovador 13y ago
  Same here! http://imgur.com/cUvRdcd http://imgur.com/cUvRdcd
- Fistandantilus 13y ago
  I try to refrain from bragging, but the feeling of victory isn't as sweet if nobody knows about it. http://imgur.com/d6uDadO http://imgur.com/d6uDadO
dchichkov 13y ago
Score 3 on Air 13 inch, max brightness [are you sure you are not scoring your monitor?].
- DanBC 13y ago
  Last time I did this I was using a MacBook Pro (very nice monitor), this time I'm using a Thinkpad T61 (lousy monitor). I scored the same both times. I'd be interested to see what happens if people use poorly calibrated monitors. I could tweak a screenshot with the Gimp, but I don't know enough about eyes to know if I'm making any meaningful adjustments.
Splendor 13y ago
I wish it gave more details about the test results. I'd like to know what the average score is in my demo; not just the highest and lowest scores.
jey 13y ago
Response spectra of human cones: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/04/Cone-fundamentals-with-srgb-spectrum.svg/1000px-Cone-fundamentals-with-srgb-spectrum.svg.png https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/04/Co... The medium ("green") and long ("red") cones are pretty close and similar. It's interesting that the diversity of reds and greens we experience are computed from two mostly-overlapping signals having peak responses at roughly "leafy green" and "sunny yellow".
t0mas88 13y ago
Scored 10 (for comparison: male, age 20-29). I think the score might be better on a real monitor (now on notebook) and worse on a phone/tablet, because the high-contrast on some notebooks (my Vaio Z for example) and phones (AMOLED type) might decrease the differences between colors on these charts.
gmack 13y ago
7, among the highest for my cohort. Although it's possible the sorting heuristic I used helped, basically a loose binary sort followed by closer inspection and comparison of proximate squares. Increased the zoom level of the page to get a bigger sampling area for my eyes.
AlexanderDhoore 13y ago
This gets a lot easier if you disable Flux! Unfortunately I realised this only afterwards.
babuskov 13y ago
I hate doing bubble-sort manually ;) BTW, my score is 8. I read the explanation, but I still have no clue what that means? For example, which score would you need to be a graphic designer?
- chacham15 13y ago
  +1 for the bubble sort. I dont have the patience for that; I did shell sort :) Also, I dont understand why it has 0 on the left hand side, yet says for the best score -200; same for the opposite end. I got a 0 btw :)
jayrhynas 13y ago
I got a 241... Good thing I already knew I was colourblind
- baldajan 13y ago
  got 4 :P
q3k 13y ago
Well this is intriguing: http://crap.q3k.org/8e2fbb1393588d87f953d8c405ab9d101f07fc0d6bf3c4eda2bd170a72a10af9.png http://crap.q3k.org/8e2fbb1393588d87f953d8c405ab9d101f07fc0d... I am really surprised to score 0, especially as I'm not an artist.
jaredmcateer 13y ago
Scored a 4 on a crappy 10 year old lcd monitor.
thaumaturgy 13y ago
291 for me. Colorblindness is frequently a problem: color-coded graphs and maps are usually unusable, and I often have to get help with color in design.
mw67 13y ago
38 for me http://imgur.com/Duhfajt http://imgur.com/Duhfajt Fun game, will give it to my wife who sells paint for entertaining her customers :)
read 13y ago
8 http://imgur.com/B2SuT1I http://imgur.com/B2SuT1I

33 points by pg 13y ago

I would love to see the score distribution and the particular zones where color discrimination is low for the whole population. In my case it seems blue is slightly problematic. Is there anything like this in the webpage besides individual scores?

DanBC 13y ago
I found the third row hardest to sort. Is that the same for most people?

colmvp 13y ago

Being an artist, I'm curious as how PG will score on this.

pg 13y ago
14

danmaz74 13y ago

This test not only measures your color acuity, but also your patience...

Zariel 13y ago
And your monitors colour accuracy.
fhars 13y ago
And the color calibration of your screen...

shawndumas 13y ago

I got a 15... but mostly because it was tedious.

jessedhillon 13y ago

For the sake of comparability, here's my result (score, 11) http://imgur.com/Emd4KDZ http://imgur.com/Emd4KDZ

clarry 13y ago

Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6417143 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6417143

seldo 13y ago

I scored zero: "You have perfect color vision!"

brovador 13y ago
Same here! http://imgur.com/cUvRdcd http://imgur.com/cUvRdcd
Fistandantilus 13y ago
I try to refrain from bragging, but the feeling of victory isn't as sweet if nobody knows about it. http://imgur.com/d6uDadO http://imgur.com/d6uDadO

dchichkov 13y ago

Score 3 on Air 13 inch, max brightness [are you sure you are not scoring your monitor?].

DanBC 13y ago
Last time I did this I was using a MacBook Pro (very nice monitor), this time I'm using a Thinkpad T61 (lousy monitor). I scored the same both times. I'd be interested to see what happens if people use poorly calibrated monitors. I could tweak a screenshot with the Gimp, but I don't know enough about eyes to know if I'm making any meaningful adjustments.

Splendor 13y ago

I wish it gave more details about the test results. I'd like to know what the average score is in my demo; not just the highest and lowest scores.

jey 13y ago

Response spectra of human cones: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/04/Cone-fundamentals-with-srgb-spectrum.svg/1000px-Cone-fundamentals-with-srgb-spectrum.svg.png https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/04/Co... The medium ("green") and long ("red") cones are pretty close and similar. It's interesting that the diversity of reds and greens we experience are computed from two mostly-overlapping signals having peak responses at roughly "leafy green" and "sunny yellow".

t0mas88 13y ago

Scored 10 (for comparison: male, age 20-29). I think the score might be better on a real monitor (now on notebook) and worse on a phone/tablet, because the high-contrast on some notebooks (my Vaio Z for example) and phones (AMOLED type) might decrease the differences between colors on these charts.

gmack 13y ago

7, among the highest for my cohort. Although it's possible the sorting heuristic I used helped, basically a loose binary sort followed by closer inspection and comparison of proximate squares. Increased the zoom level of the page to get a bigger sampling area for my eyes.

AlexanderDhoore 13y ago

This gets a lot easier if you disable Flux! Unfortunately I realised this only afterwards.

babuskov 13y ago

I hate doing bubble-sort manually ;) BTW, my score is 8. I read the explanation, but I still have no clue what that means? For example, which score would you need to be a graphic designer?

chacham15 13y ago
+1 for the bubble sort. I dont have the patience for that; I did shell sort :) Also, I dont understand why it has 0 on the left hand side, yet says for the best score -200; same for the opposite end. I got a 0 btw :)

jayrhynas 13y ago

I got a 241... Good thing I already knew I was colourblind

baldajan 13y ago
got 4 :P

q3k 13y ago

Well this is intriguing: http://crap.q3k.org/8e2fbb1393588d87f953d8c405ab9d101f07fc0d6bf3c4eda2bd170a72a10af9.png http://crap.q3k.org/8e2fbb1393588d87f953d8c405ab9d101f07fc0d... I am really surprised to score 0, especially as I'm not an artist.

jaredmcateer 13y ago

Scored a 4 on a crappy 10 year old lcd monitor.

thaumaturgy 13y ago

291 for me. Colorblindness is frequently a problem: color-coded graphs and maps are usually unusable, and I often have to get help with color in design.

mw67 13y ago

38 for me http://imgur.com/Duhfajt http://imgur.com/Duhfajt Fun game, will give it to my wife who sells paint for entertaining her customers :)

read 13y ago

8 http://imgur.com/B2SuT1I http://imgur.com/B2SuT1I