Not bad for a 64 Y/O dude with no color sense and bad eyes.

Not bad for a 64 Y/O chick with no color sense and bad eyes.

to even really start. I often get an emotional kick out of colour combinations.

I need to brush up.

And maybe calibrate my monitor again.

Based on your information, below is how your score compares to those of others with similar demographic information.
Your score: 27
Gender: Female
Age range: 60-69
Best score for your gender and age range: -160
Highest score for your gender and age range: 1520
0 ( Perfect Color Acuity )99 ( Low Color Acuity )

Driving for a living has a few drawbacks.
Two of the worst times are escorting in the rain or at night.

If we are moving at night with an oversize load, we also have state or local police with us.

It seems that perfect is perfect.

(I scored a 12)

In June 2012, after 20 years of study of women with four cones (non-functional tetrachromats), neuroscientist Dr. Gabriele Jordan identified a woman (subject cDa29) who was able to detect a greater variety of colors than trichromatic ones, corresponding with a functional tetrachromat (or true tetrachromat).[14]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetrachromacy

So to get a minus score implies they were subjected to an additional, more discriminatory test.

But as an artists I know online colors are very unreliable. And my work requires me to be looking at a monitor 98% of the time. Your eyes get tired and strained after hours a day reading what you're doing on the screen.

I got frustrated half way thru this silly test, and hit submit. I got two of them partly done, and kept going back to make changes. It finally dawned on me that I was not going to get them right, not even close to right. In the future, I will leave the choice of colors to some one else. How many of us really need more than 16 color choices anyway?

I think having all the color spectra on the same page made it a little harder. My eyes started to feel tired.

That was fun - thanks for posting!

Is it a continution of the right side of the row? Why do they even have an extra block that doesn't fit on row 1? I didn't know which block to put in row 2...

And the starting and ending blocks in each row were static, so the middle blocks were arranged to blend from the fixed block on one end to the fixed block on the other end.

The first time I did it, I missed a couple blocks in the 3rd spectrum, so when I did it again later, I completed the 3rd row first.

Each of my rows has 1 extra block that falls down to make a 2nd row within the spectrum. Somehow my screen isn't wide enough to fit all 22 blocks in a single row.

Oh, wait a minute. I just remembered I have my view set to 125 or 150% or so. I'll try shrinking it down and see if that works!

thanks!

craps. it didn't work. I still get 21 blocks in one row with the 22nd block below the row.

I'll never be able to get any row at 100% because I have an extra block in each row. this is really weird...

But I scored 0. Huh.

Thought I was doing better than that, but I guess that just goes to show my vision isn't what I think it is.

But that was in low light. I thought that I'd suck at it.

no matter where I put them.

I will chalk it up to my computer screen.

My wife scored 104. Nyah nyah.

Will have to try again on the laptop later on today.

Apparently, I have a minor issue with the blue-purple range.

Seems all my investigations of color perception, photography, television, image compression, and frequent use of GIMP have paid off.

Strangely, I know my wife's perception of color is better than my own. I'm pretty sure she's a tetrachromat. It's not as good as what birds have, but it's better than most people.

Sadly trichromacy in humans is a wretched kludge. It's more like two-and-a-quarter-chromacy, not really trichromacy at all. Human color vision isn't that good. Our little fury ancestors crawling around in the dark managed to lose a few color receptors in their evolution. (Any creationists who uses human eyes as an example of God's creation is an idiot. Or maybe their God just comes to work drunk some days.)

A color television, color printing system, or image compression scheme adequate for humans would be completely inadequate if we saw colors as a bird does.



The four pigments in a bird's cones (in this example, estrildid finches)
extend the range of color vision into the ultraviolet.

And like some others I assumed I'd gotten half of the middle ones wrong, at least...

Not bad for a dude who tested red/green colorblind by the military over forty years ago; eat your vegetables

I had issues (hue discrimination) between the red and yellow, between the green and blue, and between the purple and brown.

Your score: 8
Gender: Male
Age range: 60-69
Best score for your gender and age range: 0
Highest score for your gender and age range: 1970

Last time I took this, I think I was in the 50-60's IIRC. I think that was before my second cataract surgery. I guess that has all worked out.

That was interesting.

That is hard on the eyes.

Your score: 38
Gender: Female
Age range: i am not tellin!
Best score for your gender and age range: -160
Highest score for your gender and age range: 198857

Im not colour blind

cataract operation!

I was a 4.

Is we alienz?

They do put a great show on.

Over and over and over again...

X

The only downside to watain is they helped put negative plane on the map. Personally I find Ed & Mathias to be insufferable

Lets make a new metal thread in the lounge

We get enough of bad rep as is.

...

Hi,
That made my eyes hurt, thought I was going to do okay.

Peace

...meaning I have perfect color acuity.

Which is nice to know, since I work in the visual arts almost every day.

Here are the screen caps for the skeptical:

I thought your screen shots were the ones I just took because we had the same score and age range. I'm a girl though. I am an artist and I zipped through the test so quick I thought I must be doing something wrong, because it was so easy.

Well, at least I'm good at something, lol.

...thought it would.

I guess studying color theory in art school paid off.

Not too bad.

*rubs eyes*

I found the test to be difficult, and I'm a little surprised at the score. I thought I was going to miss a few (because I couldn't tell with some of the blocks ... or, I should say, I thought I couldn't tell).

Based on your information, below is how your score compares to those of others with similar demographic information.
•Your score: 11
•Gender: Male
•Age range: Above 70
•Best score for your gender and age range: -160
•Highest score for your gender and age range: 99999996
0 ( Perfect Color Acuity ) 99 ( Low Color Acuity )


My guess is no one, or very few males over 70 yrs old have taken this test!

also boring as hell.

I took this test at work (with colored pegs) over 20 years ago and only had two wrong out of 100. It's easier to see the subtle color differences with pegs than on a computer.

Maybe I have a hard time following directions, but the 1st and last blocks are not fixed if you include the block in the 2nd row. Whenever I put that block into place, another block falls into the 2nd row. Is it supposed to be a continuation of the fixed block on the right or on the left?

I'm confused....