A test of how well you can tell colors apart

[Duke87 1,070]

http://www.xrite.com/custom_page.aspx?pageid=77&lang=en

 

Drag and drop the colors to arrange them in order so you get a nice smooth fade from one end to the other.

 

I mixed three colors up in the blue-green range but got everything else 100% right (score = 3). Let's see how everyone else does!

[Indiana Joe 1,750]

I got the exact same score as you; I had the same problem with the blue-greens.

[Superbacon 380]

I got a score of 12. I guess I had bigger trouble with the top and bottom rows. At least it's a decent score.

[Ganaram Inukshuk 906]

 

0_x That's surprising...

[mrbisonm 1,620]

Well, maybe not good compared to you folks, but not bad for my age (62), my score is 7 the first time and 8 the second. ( Iwas afraid to try it another time....lol)

 

Quite difficult to achieve  a perfect score I guess.....unless you lie to yourself. I changed them around for 5 minutes before I asked for the score.....ouffff. Maybe it's my computer's fault.....lol

 

Fred

 

  

[Jasoncw 11,839]

I've taken it 4 or 5 times over a few months and I got perfect scores on all of them except for one time which I got 1 wrong, and just now I got a score of 7 (but I also rushed myself doing it so maybe I would have gotten a lower score if I had taken more time).

 

All of that time staring at pixels on BATs has paid off. 

[Kiiroitori 55]

26..   whoa that really got my eyes and head going~ that level of concentration required -__-".

[Duke87 1,070]

I've taken it 4 or 5 times over a few months and I got perfect scores on all of them except for one time which I got 1 wrong

 

How do you get only one wrong? Given how this works the simplest possible error (a transposition) means getting two colors out of place.

 

EDIT: it occurs to me that they may be measuring "out of order" rather than "out of place", which would mean a transposition would count as one wrong

[Ganaram Inukshuk 906]

I should point out that I have always dealt with colours ever since I started fooling around with Microsoft Paint, and not once have my eyes (epically) failed me. This is partly because I would do a lot of drawing when I have the time, and I need to be able to distinguish colours.

 

Though the fact that my eyes fail me when I'm dealing with the puke-green colours means that I'm a little too blue-centric (I mean, between the two sample pics I have, there's a LOT of blue and cyan and barely any green)... (Retest pending.)

[Jasoncw 11,839]

 

I've taken it 4 or 5 times over a few months and I got perfect scores on all of them except for one time which I got 1 wrong

 

How do you get only one wrong? Given how this works the simplest possible error (a transposition) means getting two colors out of place.

 

EDIT: it occurs to me that they may be measuring "out of order" rather than "out of place", which would mean a transposition would count as one wrong

 

 

I don't remember what exactly the report was but all I remember is that I only made one mistake, so I might have gotten a 2.

[AkemiAzula 280]

I got 44

[Wiimeiser 434]

275... Apparently men can't distinguish between shades of red, or so I read somewhere...

[Alejandro24 575]

Well, probably this is the reason why I don't like too much the colors (and why I like photos in grayscale and black clothes):

 

[flatron 83]

28, I'm a bit bad with those muddy colours...

[BlondeTwiggy 43]

Well I got 23 and I'm female so apparently I suck at distinguishing colors... that must be why all the red nail polish colors in the salon look the same to me

[A Nonny Moose 8,261]

I won't even try this.  I know I have generally wonky colour vision.  Being monocular with one re-built eye just doesn't cut things like this.

[MandelSoft 2,769]

Got a score of 20...

 

 

... but that may be due to my laptop screen. When I bought this laptop, I noticed that the blues where more intense as on my PC screen. And you see that most of the deviations are on the green-blue part of the graph. I'll try it again on my PC tomorrow and see whether my theory is true or not...

 

Best,

Maarten

[mrbisonm 1,620]

After all these results from younger folks, I now feel a lot better, thanks.

So I wasn't that bad after all. somehow it worried me a bit. Woooohoooo, I can still distinguish colours!

 

 

Quite amazing this is though and statisticly interesting.

 

Fred

[Odainsaker 2,133]

Did it yesterday night and got a score of 4, with the errors all grouped together in the green-blue range.

 

Did it this evening and got a perfect score of 0, but, I'm sure I was paying greater care to the green-blue tiles.

[NMUSpidey 3,956]

I just took it (about 10PM here) and got an 85.  But it was painful to stare too hard at the screen trying to organize the stupid things.  I finished in about 2 or 3 minutes and decided I was done with it.  I wonder if it would be easier to take if I had paint chips or cards or something like that to arrange.  I won't be taking it again unless it's analog!

[MandelSoft 2,769]

Well, I'm definitely not colour-blind...

My theory was correct: my laptop screen is off in the blue range.

Best,

Maarten

[T Wrecks 10,209]

Yes, that should be kept in mind: Your screen (and its calibration) as well as your computer surroundings (illumination, reflections, overall brightness) will play a major role in this test. I remember trying it both on my old PC (with CRT monitor!) and on my new notebook, and results differed, too.

[Wiecher 192]

A score of 101. I'm guessing that's pretty bad.

For the 2 bottom rows I could only make out the 2 fixed colours on the left and right.

But hey, I am colorblind.

[arozarker12 51]

I got 14.  I would say because of my cataracts.

[astronelson 339]

First try.

 

 

[TekindusT 3,809]

Am I the only one getting headaches while doing this test?

 

EDIT: Test finished, now I'm going to take an aspirin...

 

 

Looks like I suck at all regions more or less...

[Alejandro24 575]

Am I the only one getting headaches while doing this test?

 

EDIT: Test finished, now I'm going to take an aspirin...

 

...

 

Looks like I suck at all regions more or less...

No, actually I got eyestrain after this test.

[Duke87 1,070]

It didn't give me any sort of headache, but I've spent so many hours of my life staring at a computer screen that that would be difficult to do.

 

The fact that I've had reason to pay attention to color when editing images probably helped my score.

[TekindusT 3,809]

Yeah, I also spent quite a lot of hours with GIMP and so on, but you have always the chance to zoom and work pixel-by-pixel if necessary, to avoid leaving your eyes on the screen. Not to talk that you can just use the colour picking tool. In this test, zooming to more clearly see two or three similar hues or using the tool is "cheating to yourself" so this is why my bare eyes just couldn't cope with that. 

[Muck308 55]

I remember seeing this test several months ago but I don't recall my score. It wasn't all that great. I'm pretty colorblind, mostly with red/orange and green/blue. When red fades to orange I can't tell which is which. Same thing with green and blue. I drove a teal car (factory name was jasmine green metallic) for 5 years and I thought it was blue the whole time.