Test your Color IQ

http://www.xrite.com/custom_page.aspx?PageID=77

by peakok • 18 years ago

41 38 18 years ago

astrec2• 18 years ago

Scored 18. All my troubles were in the Greens. Anyone know if that's significant? Monitor? Or I just suck at green?

peakok2• 18 years ago

I 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• 18 years ago

Scored 0 on Samsung 17" CRT :) It felt so good when I was sucking at javascript hacks.

pmsaue0• 18 years ago

I 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• 18 years ago

I scored 7 on my macbook too. Let's agree to blame the macbook.

trenchfever• 18 years ago

blue 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• 18 years ago

Seeing 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

sh1mmer• 18 years ago

4 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• 18 years ago

Score 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.

peakok2• 18 years ago

I 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• 18 years ago

I think it'd be more fun to write a bit of javascript to do it.

crescendo• 18 years ago

I 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• 18 years ago

Yeah, I got a 4 the first time, and then a 0 doing the magic-eye trick. (On a Macbook Pro LCD.)

binarray2000• 18 years ago

If you have problems with red and green tones, take this test (if you haven't already):

http://www.toledo-bend.com/colorblind/ishihara.html

manvsmachine• 18 years ago

Scored 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

dkokelley• 18 years ago

I only did the first bar, but I got all of those right. Some of them might have just been luck though.

elurin• 18 years ago

scored 0 on acer laptops' lcd.

Hates_• 18 years ago

Perfect 0

http://www.ur-ban.com/galleryv2/d/15493-2/perfect_colour.png

lux• 18 years ago

Me 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• 18 years ago

I'm glad I didn't become a graphic designer.

I would suck.

KevBurnsJr• 18 years ago

Your score: 0

You have perfect color vision!

fauigerzigerk• 18 years ago

My score was 12 (on an old laptop screen). Cyans ruined my "intelligence" :)

inglorian• 18 years ago

This 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• 18 years ago

I scored 904. I opened the page, clicked "Score test," and got back to work. It took me about 5 seconds. ;)

jrockway• 18 years ago

Same; 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• 18 years ago

I'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• 18 years ago

I can't wait to hang my perfect score on the fridge.

louislouis• 18 years ago

20 - arh im going blind

whacked_new• 18 years ago

For 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?

pmjordan• 18 years ago

It 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• 18 years ago

Wow! 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• 18 years ago

strangely enough, this was your 51st backtype comment... and you had 51 people following you at the time...

roundbrackets• 18 years ago

After a lot of squinting I ended up with 4. I seem to have trouble in the bluish range. My eyes are hurting now.

STHayden• 18 years ago

I'm pretty happy with my score or 11... male, 20-29

rainface2• 18 years ago

I see this as much a color sorting ability as it is a demonstration of your monitors color accuracy.

rainface2• 18 years ago

I 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.

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