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Re: Test your Color IQ

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

I scored 7 on my macbook too. Let's agree to blame the macbook.

Duly agreed - Macbook here too ;)

Re: Test your Color IQ

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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.

Scored 0 on Samsung 17" CRT :) It felt so good when I was sucking at javascript hacks.

Re: Test your Color IQ

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This took me about 5 mins -- score 0. Gender: female, age range: 16-19. My method: I first grouped them in a rough approximation, and then treated it like a bubble sort -- I compared two at a time and moved them if one was closer to the goal color.

I scored 904. I opened the page, clicked "Score test," and got back to work. It took me about 5 seconds. ;)

Re: Test your Color IQ

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This took me about 5 mins -- score 0. Gender: female, age range: 16-19. My method: I first grouped them in a rough approximation, and then treated it like a bubble sort -- I compared two at a time and moved them if one was closer to the goal color.

I scored 904. I opened the page, clicked "Score test," and got back to work. It took me about 5 seconds. ;)

Same; almost.

I did the first row, clicked score, and noticed that I did well in that range. Then, I didn't waste my time with the others.

Re: Test your Color IQ

#36
post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I scored 7 on my macbook too. Let's agree to blame the macbook.

Duly agreed - Macbook here too ;)

OK, I'm not making this up. 7. On a Macbook Pro. Also having problems with greens. I think this is because our displays don't have true 24bit color; they use dithering.

Re: Test your Color IQ

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

blue is where humans suck. if you've ever tried calibrating your monitor, you'll know. the hue is blue green so no surprises there.

Re: Test your Color IQ

#38
post #30

Wow! It really sucks being colour blind -- I scored 51 :(. Thankfully I'm not the designer at my startup. I wish I saved a screenshot to share my embarrassment.

strangely enough, this was your 51st backtype comment... and you had 51 people following you at the time...
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