Online Color Challenge: How Well Do You See Color?

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

by pg • 13 years ago

33 28 13 years ago

bfigares• 13 years 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?

DanBC2• 13 years ago

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

colmvp• 13 years ago

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

pg• 13 years ago

danmaz74• 13 years ago

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

Zariel• 13 years ago

And your monitors colour accuracy.

fhars• 13 years ago

And the color calibration of your screen...

shawndumas• 13 years ago

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

jessedhillon• 13 years ago

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

http://imgur.com/Emd4KDZ

clarry• 13 years ago

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

seldo• 13 years ago

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

brovador• 13 years ago

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

dchichkov• 13 years ago

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

DanBC2• 13 years 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• 13 years 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• 13 years ago

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".

t0mas88• 13 years 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• 13 years 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• 13 years ago

This gets a lot easier if you disable Flux!

Unfortunately I realised this only afterwards.

babuskov• 13 years 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• 13 years 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• 13 years ago

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

baldajan• 13 years ago

got 4 :P

q3k• 13 years ago

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

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

jaredmcateer• 13 years ago

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

thaumaturgy• 13 years 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• 13 years ago

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

read• 13 years ago

http://imgur.com/B2SuT1I

Online Color Challenge: How Well Do You See Color?

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