Did I Really Fail the Color Vision Test?

[DaveC426913]

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

I thought I got perfect. I am aghast to find I did poorly.


I'm gonig to blame it on test conditions. I'll try it again under proper lighting and viewing conditions.

 

[tribdog]

I got a 15. What did you get? Surprisingly, I did poorest in the blue green range which is the part I found easiest.

 

[mcknia07]

I got a 12, which I guess is ok...

 

[Topher925]

Men are suppose to have a much harder time than women distinguishing between blue and green. Also, this test is pretty bogus since the hue depends on your monitor and your VGA hardware. Especially if your still running a CRT.

 

[morphism]

I got a 3 and was completely shocked that I faired this poorly (the first two replies led me to believe that the test was out of 20). But then I read how the thing was actually scored...

 

[WiFO215]

I got 79! I must be blind..

 

[Grogerian]

i got a 7 :D

 

[DaveC426913]

Also, this test is pretty bogus since the hue depends on your monitor and your VGA hardware. Especially if your still running a CRT.

True, but keep in mind, this test doesn't depend on the absolute value of the colours, merely on the relative value. That'll be less subject to monitor nuances.

 

[Kurdt]

Your score: 8
FM Hue Test Results

A lot better than I expected.

 

[offtheleft]

i got a 20. i did surprisingly well on the last one, which is the one i found to have the greatest difficulty.

 

[edward]

Your score: 0
Gender: Male

I am going to have my wife take this test. She is always telling me I am color blind about clothes

 

[Mk]

I got a 16, I thought I did better than that. Looking at the spectra now, I can see errors.

When I was doing the first one, it made my eyes all weird. The colors were changing and the blocks looked like their sides were all crooked.

 

[DaveC426913]

Phew. OK, test conditions do make a diff.

Last night, at midnight, on my laptop, in my dim living room, I scored a whopping 87 or so.

Today, at work, I scored 3 (I've always known I had excellent colour sensitivity). And I didn't spend any longer on it today.

 

[glondor]

My best effort was an 89. poo.

 

[rootX]

68..

don't really what that means!

It looked like an application of sorting algorithms. I used quick sort!

 

[Chi Meson]

I took one look and gave up.

Give me a number sequence any day!

 

[brewnog]

4, in a dark room after a few glasses of red. Will try again tomorrow when I'm awake. I can see how you can get one or two in the wrong order, but I'm amazed how many people are challenged by this.

 

[larkspur]

I got a 4. Now my eyes hurt!

 

[Chi Meson]

I went back and did it. Got a 4! I'm as surprised as anyone. My eyes are also bugging out now. I took a while, though, flipping each tile back and forth with the adjacent ones.

I found that if you look a little off to the side, like looking for a faint star, I could determine the colors better. My center of vision started to jitter around on me.

 

[edward]

The first few are pretty easy to place. I found when I was nearing the completion of a row that it helped to back up a bit and scan the row. The mismatched hues seemed to jump right out.

I got a perfect score of 0. It must have been from shopping for paint with my wife all of these years I would hate to see an electrical control panel that uses those color hues.

 

[lisab]

I got an 81 and I'm not doing that damn test again.

I'm not surprised I did poorly - my dad is severely color blind. I got one of my X chromosomes from him, you know.

 

[DaveC426913]

Personally, I think it is as much a test of bloody-headed persistence as it is of colour acuity...

 

[Oerg]

so i guess a 144 must be bad huh..

 

[Chi Meson]

Personally, I think it is as much a test of bloody-headed persistence as it is of colour acuity...

roger that.

 

[chaoseverlasting]

10 didnt think I'd do so well.

 

[turbo]

I got an 8. Not too bad for an old fart.

 

[WiFO215]

so i guess a 144 must be bad huh..

What? Did you just click submit without doing anything??

 

[DaveC426913]

What? Did you just click submit without doing anything??

Actually, worst scores are in the 1000's.

 

[Dr Transport]

Sucked pretty bad, about a 15... but I knew going in I have a hard time with hues that are close together...On the other hand I work with a guy who would have spent 2-3 hours trying to get it absolutely perfect and would have gotten about a 1-2...

I worked it on a different computer and monitor and got a different score than above...

 

[turbo]

I went back to the test (tired from yard-work, and with a bit more patience), took a few extra seconds flipping close ones and got a perfect score. I know that the human eye can judge some pretty subtle differences in color, but perhaps the most trained set of eyes I know of belong to a specialist with a high-speed offset printer here in Central Maine. He was the one who visited to calibrate the monitors in our graphics department so that what our photographers and our graphics-layout people saw on their monitors matched what the printers' people would see. Interestingly, the printers refused to take responsibility for color-matching if we used solid-state monitors - we had to use high-end CRTs.

 

[dlgoff]

I got a 4. Thought I was perfect.

 

[Redbelly98]

23 here.

Actually, worst scores are in the 1000's.

I'll bet those are bogus or random, or people deliberately trying to get it wrong. Note the final score page considers 99 to be high.

 

[tribdog]

I took it again and got an 8 and I can't figure out what I got wrong.

 

[Q_Goest]

I found that if you look a little off to the side, like looking for a faint star, I could determine the colors better. My center of vision started to jitter around on me.

I found the same thing. Scanning up and down the row just above or below it, without actually focusing on the row, seemed to make the odd balls jump out. I got a 3.

 

[Redbelly98]

That's weird, I thought the look-to-the-side trick worked only for night time (non-color) vision. Color receptors are densest in the center of the field of vision ... I think.

 

[Chi Meson]

That's weird, I thought the look-to-the-side trick worked only for night time (non-color) vision. Color receptors are densest in the center of the field of vision ... I think.

It worked for me, I think, because I was sensing the difference in brightness. In each case the tones went from a lighter to darker color. At least it appeared so to me.

 

[Redbelly98]

Well, I believe you and Q_Goest. I'm just surprised ... and too lazy to arrange those blocks all over again and check it out for myself

 

[Moonbear]

I got a perfect score, though had to tilt the monitor a bit to see the colors correctly. But, I'm also one of those people who can actually see the differences in colors among all those paint chips, when most people just look at them and say, "How many names do they have for one shade of beige?!"

Personally, I think it is as much a test of bloody-headed persistence as it is of colour acuity...

Really? I didn't think it took that long. Most were pretty easy to line up. Just a couple in the middles would get tough after staring at that row too long, but then I just jumped to the next row, let my eyes reset a bit, and went back and the outliers jumped out pretty quickly.

 

[rootX]

I got a perfect score, though had to tilt the monitor a bit to see the colors correctly. But, I'm also one of those people who can actually see the differences in colors among all those paint chips, when most people just look at them and say, "How many names do they have for one shade of beige?!" :biggrin

What's perfect score?

 

[tribdog]

100, right?

 

[mcknia07]

Wrong, guess again...

 

[rootX]

100, right?

I got >60.. and I thought I did better than people who got like <10. But seems like perfect is 0

 

[Kurdt]

That's weird, I thought the look-to-the-side trick worked only for night time (non-color) vision. Color receptors are densest in the center of the field of vision ... I think.

Do you really need to know the colour to compare hues? While the colour receptors are densest at the fovea they are not as sensitive as rods.

 

[Redbelly98]

Do you really need to know the colour to compare hues? While the colour receptors are densest at the fovea they are not as sensitive as rods.

Makes sense.

I took it again and got an 8 and I can't figure out what I got wrong.

Keep trying! I'm sure you'll get a perfect ... er, 100 ... eventually.

 

[Mentallic]

11 and my eyes are aching! If I tried again I would either go blind or get 100.

 

[Moonbear]

What's perfect score?

0 wrong...but it just says something like, "Congratulations, you have perfect color vision," without giving a score. It takes some reading beyond that to learn that 0 = a perfect score.

I wonder how it scores though. If you just switch two blocks, is that one wrong or 2 wrong? Can you get only one wrong? Does it add points for how far off that one block is from the correct position?

I do know one thing for certain...I would never paint a house in greenish-pink or pinkish-green. What a horrendous set of colors to have to start out with.

 

[Moonbear]

Do you really need to know the colour to compare hues?

Perhaps this is your problem. Hues refer to colors. Tints and shades refer to lighter or darker (i.e., take the same color and add white or black to it). These weren't going from brighter to darker, they were blends of varying proportions of the two colors at either end of the palette provided.

 

[lewdtenant]

wow, i got a perfect score on the first try.

i do a lot of graphic design on my computer and have even made my own color wheels (so to speak) so i knew i was going to do well. i was just surprised that i was perfect.

 

[binzing]

He he...104