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Online Color Challenge: How Well Do You See Color?

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

And your monitors colour accuracy.

And the color calibration of your screen...

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.

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

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.

Response spectra of human cones: 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".

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?

+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 :)

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.

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?

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

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.

Well this is intriguing: http://crap.q3k.org/8e2fbb1393588d87f953d8c405ab9d101f07fc0d...

I am really surprised to score 0, especially as I'm not an artist.

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

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

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

got 4 :P

http://imgur.com/B2SuT1I

This gets a lot easier if you disable Flux!

Unfortunately I realised this only afterwards.

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

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.

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

Same here! http://imgur.com/cUvRdcd

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

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

For the sake of comparability, here's my result (score, 11)

http://imgur.com/Emd4KDZ

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