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There was some talk earlier today on another thread about some of us being color blind nerds :186- so I thought I'd post this link. :200-

The test doesn't cover the entire range of color, and uses secondary and tertiary colors instead of primary colors.
A perfect score is 0. The higher your score, the worse you did. :25-

FWIW, I scored an 8. The tiles I had problems with were in the light-blue/turquoise section. I read somewhere that the average score for men is around 35, and the average score for women is around 18.

http://www.xrite.com/custom_page.aspx?PageID=77&Lang=en (http://www.xrite.com/custom_page.aspx?PageID=77&Lang=en)


Enjoy.

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 :97- I scored a 22 . I have been Waring glasses  over 47 years and they just keep getting thicker   :25-

 :97- :97- :97- :97- Glasses shouldn't make any difference. Interestingly, age doesn't matter much, either.

You did that rather fast. :71-  You replied only 15 minutes after I posted the link. :79-

I got a 3 woo hoo!   :72- Online ColorIQ Challenge Results
Your score: 3
FM Hue Test Results                                                                                          


   

Excellent. What color gave you problems?  Do you enjoy painting or photography?

BUZZ will take the test a crash the website  his score will be in the thousands  lol  :208- :208- :208- :208-

It was the purples, violet colors.  I'm a terrible painter, But I do take pictures occasionally  :96-    

Why?  :103-  Older people don't seem to score any worse than younger people.

If the person taking the test is using a decent, modern monitor or LCD with sufficient brightness and has no medical vision problems that would affect his/her ability to distinguish color, then the results are mostly due to inherited color blindness, or a lack of it.


<ADD> People who score well above average (low scores) would be better suited for hobbies or professions that require excellent color discrimination, such as being a graphic artist, painter, color photographer, or working with graphic or commercial art in programs like Photoshop, or being in charge of proofing colors used in silk screening, etc.  Of course, there's more to those professions that lack of color blindness, and this test doesn't cover the entire visible spectrum.

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In other words, you just opened the link and clicked "score test" without changing anything... :30- :96-

Online ColorIQ Challenge Results
Your score: 1074
FM Hue Test Results

Thats what it scored if you didn't change anything..  

I scored 127, but I know I need glasses.. :200-  :111-

Where's the "click on score test " button????!!!!     :97- :72- :97- :72-
I WANT MY RESULTS!!!!!  :208-

I Scored a 7 - I had the same issue with the light blue/turquoise section.

I scored 122, same number I get when I multiply my IQ by 1000 :200-

Actually, it slightly randomizes the colors each time (within narrow limits), so an unchanged score will vary, usually between 900-1150. :5-

Bunker, the colors shouldn't wrap within each large box. Your screen width is too small, and that is causing some of the fourth line and the button to be lost behind the advertising.  <EDIT> Actually Bunker, they saw you coming and deliberately screwed it up just for you!! :200- :30- :208- :208- :208-

I got a 7.  :208- :208-
Ford

Don't forget my informal survey. What colors did you have trouble with? :128-

he got a 7, doesn't look like he had trouble with ANY of them :89-

Red gave me more trouble. I'll have to try latter & take my time. It only took about 5 min.

Based on your information, below is how your score compares to those of others with similar demographic information.

    * Your score: 4
    * Gender: Male
    * Age range: Above 70
    * Best score for your gender and age range: 0
    * Highest score for your gender and age range: 1520

0 ( Perfect Color Acuity )
99 ( Low Color Acuity )

 Did it again & got 4.
Keep in mind that I have an auto body shop.
Ford

I got a 27. The last row gave me the most trouble. Knew it wasn't right, just couldn't find the right fit.
Interesting test Stat.

I got a 23 , I have problem in the purple and blue .

The low and high score crap data they display at the end are useless, since at least one person in every age group and sex got a 0, and at least one person got a really crappy score (probably deliberately submitted after just clicking the link.) :25- :5-

It would only be useful if they posted the detailed percentiles of the results for each age group and sex, and the number of subjects, and even so, it would still be BS since there would be no controls. This test is quite popular on the internet (no one else actually has the test, but lots and lots of other sites point to it), and some of the peripheral sites have done their own informal studies. Again, there are no controls or real accuracy, but after looking at a few of the studies, patterns emerge.


What's most interesting to me about the test is that it helps one determine where one's color discrimination is "weak", even if only slightly. Still, for those of us who score low, it's impossible to determine if the apparent "weakness" is due to the monitor or ourselves unless we try the test on a different monitor.

In my case, I've done the test on an LCD laptop and consistently tested weak in the turquoise/light blues (scoring 8 the first time, and between 6-12 in general.) If I try it a couple of times on a good CRT and get the same results, then I'll know that I have trouble with those colors, if not, then I'll know it's my LCD. :96-

You're helping to prove my point. :71-   You have to be able to carefully match and distinguish colors when restoring and repainting. It's not surprising that you scored well. :89-

At least two of us are being truthful Rob got a 122 and I got a 90 (without my glasses) First and third ones gave me trouble.  

Desided after about 40 years I was tired of wearing glasses. Everyone needs to take notice I travel the wideopen Highways, if you see a dark BLUE Peterbilt coming toward you, get out of the way,the Driver doesn't give a S*** what color car he hits.   :5- :5-

I got a 61. But I think using certain displays like a LCD make it more difficult to distinguish between them.

LOL, no one can accuse you of being a car racist Buzz, hit them all and let the junkyard sort them out.

LOL, no one can accuse you of being a car racist Buzz, hit them all and let the junkyard sort them out.
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Pic. is worth a 1000 words !!  I buy front bumber 3 at a time.

Your score an 8 and your weak?? Are trying to give me a complex!  :200-
Did the test twice and both times a 27, and it's all in the turquoise area too.
Wife did the test and she got a 27 also. (LCD laptop)

They should overlay a number on each tile after the test to show the exact position, the bar graph just don't cut it.

They should overlay a number on each tile after the test to show the exact position, the bar graph just don't cut it.

I agree with Uniman.

I didn't mean it that way. :5- I've always had a good eye for color. :209-   What I meant was that I seem to be weak in distinguishing that specific narrow range of colors -- IF it's not because of my LCD screen. That's potentially useful information to have when I'm color correcting and balancing photographs in Photoshop or trying to compare colors in that range.



 :214- One trick is to open another tab with a new instance of the page and just click on "score test" without doing anything, like Ken (OhioGaming) did. It will clearly show each pair of anchor colors with no bars, thus separating the four sections for you. You can then move between the two screens to figure out exactly which tiles you placed incorrectly.


From what I can tell, it seems that the height of an "incorrect" bar not only signifies how far the tile is from it's correct location, but also the degree to which it differs from the neighboring tiles.

Screw it...I'm NOT changing my screen size or nothing!!!!!  :72- :200- :96- :208-
I like the way things are and I'll live whether I have a 17 or a 1,000 !!!!

Did you try changing the magnification?

I scored an 8.  Maybe I'm not sure how to read the results graph?  All of the white bars were even with each other, and all were very low on the color bar that was displayed.  I am using an LCD monitor, and I'm not sure how that might have affected my results -- a lot of them were "too close to call" for me -- I did my best to put them in order.

I believe that the lowest non-zero score occurs when you swap two adjacent tiles that would have otherwise been correctly placed. In other words, I don't think it's possible to end up with a score of 1.

If you scored 8, you should have seen something like 4 or 5 adjacent tiles in one location with one, two, or three-point bars, with the rest of the spectrum having only zero point bar "stubs." Mine were (from left to right) 2,1,1,3,1 in the turquoise section. Actually, I'm not really sure how they could have scored that way.  :103-



So, do we really have an abnormal number of men here who have an above average ability to discern small color differences, or are we lying (probably not), or are most of the members who have scored poorly simply not posting their results? (probably) :96- :30- :72- :72-

<ADD> Actually, this is not a test for color deficiency (aka color blindness), but is a color acuity test designed to test how well one can discriminate very small differences in color shading. Still, color deficiency is much more prevalent in men than it is in women. The most common form, red/green blindness, is a recessive mutation located on the X chromosome. Since men have only one X chromosome and women have two, and since the trait is recessive, women would have to have the mutation on both X chromosomes to have the symptoms, while men only need to inherit the one mutated chromosome.

Women carry the recessive genes that creates the abnormality and pass it on to their offspring, so although they usually don't exhibit this form of color blindness, they are carriers. Some of the more rare forms of color deficiency are located on other chromosomes, and are equally likely in both men and women.

That was an interesting test...if I didn't need glasses before I sure do now   :97-   :127-



Scored a "4" and looks like my problem area is between the teals to the gray-blue's.

I got a 4 as well. Its the darker pink shades that I think threw me off a bit.