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Farnsworth Munsell 100 Hue Color Vision Test

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100 pointsbartkappenburg65 comments

This test measures a different thing, namely, how far can you make it through the crappy UI they implemented.

It did take me a little while to work out that the left and right edges were pinned, and my drag-and-drop didn't do what I intended more than once. But... then you're being tested (unintentionally) on the ability to discern that too, I guess?

Your comment is knee jerk funny, but not generally helpful.

I thought the test was fun to do, even on a mobile touch screen.

Vertical drag and drop from mobile did seem to mess with it but I simply dropped and reset the piece.

That's exactly what I wanted to say. I could hardly move the squares to where I wanted...

I didn't even start. Looked too much like I should have been a paid test subject.

It worked perfect for me.

I scored a 0. I also have independently and multiply diagnosed protonomaly. So I wouldn't read too much in to the results of this "test".

Same here. I'm hilariously colorblind, and I scored a 4.

3rd-ing this. I have daily issues with red/green and blue/purple. Also scored a 4.

This is not unusual. Perhaps the difficulties of you and the other ancestor commenters in discriminating colors (and other visual phenomena), have made you compensate by becoming better at these tasks than average (and better than the test expects you to be), maybe by recognizing and amplifying other visual cues.

There's plenty of examples of people respond to adversity/different-ability level in a domain by deliberately developing super competence. Childhood asthma sufferers who became competition swimmers, is one.

Note for those who have not read the article (this was confusing to me): 0 is the highest possible score. Just saying "done" from the starting configuration got me a 66 (so that's a score showing you don't see any differences).

On the website they say that average score goes all the way to 100.

Guess you really can’t take online tests too seriously.

What screen did you take the test on?

Google Pixel 6

2022 and draggable is still a mess.

It's unusable. For some reason only the last row seems to reliably drop anything where you intend to (I expect invisible elements obscuring events).

As someone who has implemented actually good, lightweight, MVC agnostic, keyboard accessible internal dragndrop library - I think dragndrop needs to die - for most purposes it really doesn't add much as an input method. For instance this activity could easily be implemented with buttons while still being intuitive.

I used my index finger on my Android phone with Firefox and it worked perfectly. Maybe drag and drop doesn't work as nicely with a mouse or a touchpad. After all we pick things up all the time with our hands, less often with tools. Mostly forks and spoons or chopsticks?

it's ok with a mouse, but absolutely unusable with a touchpad, at least for me.

Yeah, in Firefox, I can't seem to drag anything leftwards to the first two columns (third and onwards does work), I have to move those first two columns out to the right instead and shuffle them around...

Started on an older monitor, moved it to my newer one and found it easier. Was able to score a 0.

Too many variables to be taking this test on non-controlled equipment

Also a tip, if you're taking this at night time and use flux/night light, turn that off before you start.

That was interesting. Scored 14.

About 6 weeks ago I got a lens implant to replace a cataract-ravaged lens in my dominant eye. One of the first things I noticed after surgery was that the color temperature of that eye cooled noticeabley. My other eye has a less advanced cataract and of course the lens has yellowed. I found some of the rows easier with one eye versus the other. Fun test!

You should see if you can perceive UV-A with that eye now. Some replacement lenses will let that through.

That sounds to what happened to Monet’s painting after his cataract surgery.

I got a 36. But I've known for 25 years that I'm colorblind. In some of these tests, if I really stare, I can improve my results slightly. But I definitely have poor ability to discriminate those shades.

On the other hand, last I checked, about 15 years ago, I had better than perfect acuity (I think I've lost some of that, though). Ya win some, ya lose some.

I got a 2! I'd imagine this depends not only on your vision, but also your display. A display with higher color contrast ought to give you an edge.

2, with a calibrated sRGB display. Agree that exaggerated colour would probably make this easier.

> About your score: A lower score is better, with ZERO being a perfect score.

I got a 2 as well.

2 too

I got an 8 with red-green color blindness.

This is mostly testing the quality of your monitor.

I got a nearly perfect score, but on an AdobeRGB wide gamut monitor. Similarly, an OLED phone screen makes this easy.

Got a zero on a phone screen almost minimum brightness. Dragging sucked and confused me a bunchcause I'd try to move something and it wouldn't move. But my mother was a photoshop and color grading expert for hallmark for a couple decades so it's probably somewhat genetic advantage

Also zero on an iPhone 13 Pro, which has a very good/accurate display. I wonder how much the display used affects the score.

In this test, a zero is a perfect score.

My display is crap and I managed zero too.

Does dragging the boxes work like crap on every mobile browser, or just Firefox?

Worked ok-ish. Notable that the first and last box are fixed, so those are the most frustrating to move around.

Firefox and brave worked fine for me on my phone. Maybe you're the victim of a bad device?

It is frustrating on Safari as well.

Frustating in chrome on PC as well.

My score was 0 on the first attempt. I can't understand how a score of 16 in such test can be considered normal.

I got 0 on a 9 year old 144hz TN panel... as others said the hardest part was trying to use the interface itself

I got 0 on an OLED display at maximum brightness.

I think I did this test before on worse screens and didn't get 0...

> About your score: A lower score is better, with ZERO being a perfect score.

It does work best on a well calibrated screen. I can get 0 on a good desktop display, but on this phone with the brightness down and colour temp adjusted to match the ambient light I got a 4, and I can see that those sections of the colour wheel are getting crushed by the screen adjustment.

Got the perfect score, when in doubt I looked at the whole row in scanning manner to the detect the unusual progressions.

But I don't know if a person with some form of colorblindness is able to use that technique.

Except for genuine colorblindness, all this test really measures is how good your screen is.

On my iMac this was trivially easy. If you don't get a 0, then you have a clear deficiency. I think the scale is bogus.

Got a 0! Does this mean I'm a superchromat?!

Me too, on my iPhone X screen. I thought that I messed up with some of those tiles, but apparently no. Interesting.

Well I can't see anything further than 1 foot in front of me but color wise, I'm perfect.

I got 0, which was somewhat surprising because I struggle with some other colorblindness tests, like the dot circles. I think my colorblindness is on the milder side, but I was still expecting to get a few wrong on this one.

Can we at least get a distribution of scores over the general population?

I see quite a large jump between the left hand 5 boxes and the right hand 5 boxes... Is this an artifact of the screen or some rounding issue in displaying with 8 bit colors?

Got a zero on a cheap kindle fire but when I wanted to check the gradients in each row I had to look at the display at a somewhat oblique angle.

Reminds me of Blendoku

https://youtu.be/DGVo26co7N4

Picked up a color gradient jigsaw puzzle a few years back. I recommend it, just because the experience is so interesting.

Without a calibrated screen this isn't worth much beyond entertainment value.

There is nothing wrong with my eyes, and everything wrong with my monitor.

This is too hard for me. Just moving one color took me 3 minutes.

Got 0 on Pixel 3XL with 50% brightness. Dragging was a pain

kind of a silly test, what is the proper order?

Since endpoint boxes are fixed, there is a proper order.

Given the ordered boxes x,y,z, and the endpoint colors L ... R:

for every y, x should contain more of L, and z should contain more of R.

That's the point, it's randomised (except for the first and last blocks) so it shows how perceptive you are colour-wise. Maybe you're actually struggling with colour and should see a specialist if you can't really differentiate them (after ensuring that the screen is not the one having a fault).

What's the point in seeing a specialist if you suspect your color vision is crap? As far as I know, the vast majority is genetics and there's no treatments.

did the real physical thing/test 10 years ago to work with autoparts coating. really cool!

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