Test your Color IQ

#1

Post by peakok » Mon, Sep 01, 2008, 3:04 PM UTC

Test your Color IQ
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Re: Test your Color IQ

#2

Post by astrec » Mon, Sep 01, 2008, 3:42 PM UTC

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

Re: Test your Color IQ

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Post by [deleted] » Mon, Sep 01, 2008, 3:47 PM UTC

astrec wrote: post #2

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

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Re: Test your Color IQ

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Post by peakok » Mon, Sep 01, 2008, 3:47 PM UTC

astrec wrote: post #2

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

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.

Re: Test your Color IQ

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Post by daniel-cussen » Mon, Sep 01, 2008, 5:06 PM UTC

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

Re: Test your Color IQ

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Post by sh1mmer » Mon, Sep 01, 2008, 5:18 PM UTC

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.

Re: Test your Color IQ

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Post by trezor » Mon, Sep 01, 2008, 5:20 PM UTC

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.

Re: Test your Color IQ

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Post by davidw » Mon, Sep 01, 2008, 5:28 PM UTC

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

Re: Test your Color IQ

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Post by crescendo » Mon, Sep 01, 2008, 5:33 PM UTC

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.

Re: Test your Color IQ

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Post by pmsaue0 » Mon, Sep 01, 2008, 5:40 PM UTC

astrec wrote: post #2

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

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.