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Re: Color vision quiz

#4
I got 23.

I know I'm a typical "partially color blind" male, e.g. I always fail those tests where they show you an image made of a bunch of colored dots and ask what number you see, but on this test, I found I could find the outlier much more easily by using my peripheral vision: staring directly at it the grid, all the squares would look the same, but by looking to the side and sort of scanning with the edge of my vision, one would suddenly jump out...

Re: Color vision quiz

#5
Strained my eyes doing it, had to look off into the distance for them to feel normal again! But got 31 which put me up over 95%. Think the peripheral vision trick helps in some of them.

Re: Color vision quiz

#7
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3. Beat that.

Did you notice it in your daily life before this test? I got 29 first try. But I'm sure some people get much higher. On the other hand, my hearing isn't great though. I wonder if it's related.

Got 18 on my first try. I have trouble distinguishing red and orange, and I was unaware of it until high school. We were talking about Steve Jobs wearing the same clothes every day as a sort of uniform and I made a comment comparing that to Gilligan always wearing his signature orange shirt. At that point the whole class corrected me and said that his shirt is actually red. I still see it as orange (roughly the same as the YC logo), but I make the mental correction and call it red.

The next time it came up was when I needed a bag to carry something to work, and my wife handed me her bag. I complained that it wouldn't be manly to carry a pink bag to work and she told me that the bag was actually red. To me the bag looks the same color as the pink lemonade in this picture: http://janeshealthykitchen.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/Pa...

Re: Color vision quiz

#8
30 and 1 error, that last one of all purple I just couldn't find it.

I'd bet that monitor panel quality might a big difference.

Edit: Of course, the end text was funny because it said I could spot a mosquito a mile away, which I think has nothing to do with my color accuracy. I wear prescription glasses.

Re: Color vision quiz

#10
Everyone should also compare monitors, browsers, and OS when saying what they got. First try: 31 / iMac 5K / Chrome. [edit: regarding browser, I don't know much about color profiling, but I do recall seeing an example of the same images being rendered in completely different colors across different browsers on the same OS. Can't find a link.]
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