Test Your Hue Discrimination

X-Rite's "Test Your Color IQ." I almost aced this, leaving room for you to beat my score. Not much room, but room. See how you do. As Colin says, it's not much fun, but it's revealing. I'll post my score tomorrow, after you've had a chance to take the test yourself if you're so inclined.

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Mike  (Thanks to Steve Weeks, who got it from Colin Jago at Auspicious Dragon)

Mike's score—damn those blue-greens!

If you didn't score as well as many of those who left comments, note that voluntary reporting of performance-based tests will skew toward those who did well...the colloquial term is "bragging."People reporting scores in double digits probably would score well on a test for something called "honesty."

Both Ctein and I noticed on this test that there are slight luminance variations between some of the tiles, which can tend to throw you off. I'm more sensitive to luminance than I am to chroma. I was aware of my uncertainty in the region in which I showed error.

I'm going to close the comments soon because we're getting too many, and it's a chore for me to approve and post large numbers of comments.

Comments

[Joe Sawicki]

11

The best part was when my wife walked into the room, saw what I was doing, and said, "you're such a geek."

True dat,

[Simon]

Challenging - I bet monitor quality has a bearing on it!

My score was 8 (best 0, worst 1462 (apparently))

M, 40-49 age range

[Doug]

158 (50+ age range)

I was very curious to try this as I've known since I was about 19 years old that I was to some degree red/green "color blind." It does not seem to have affected my life much but it might explain why I am partial to black & white photographs more than color photographs.

Doug

[Tom]

I'm in the same demographic as Simon with the exact same score. (8)

Would be interesting if they gave an average score for the demographic.

I'm curious if I would have done better with a - an S-IPS rather than a S-PVA based monitor, b - any other light on in the room other than the 40w equivalent "natural" fluorescent or c - less beer.

Tom

[Andreas Manessinger]

16. Seems like I can go on producing color art :)

[Bill Corbett]

Very much to my amazement, scored a perfect "0". What I can't understand now is how I manage to leave the house in the morning wearing one blue sock and one black one.

[Chris]

In the 20-29 bracket I scored a 0. I was pretty surprised actually, it looked like a lot of the hues didn't match. I did this test with my Samsung 245t (S-PVA panel) calibrated with a Pantone Huey Pro if it's worth mentioning. I want to try it on my CRT now....

[James P. Jones]

got a 4

20-29 range, damn and blast... of course I am on a laptop, I'm in a super rush, I'm beat, and its 1 in the morning; so that'll be my excuse for now.

[Stephen Gillette]

Whew. I wish to thank members of the Apple Cinema Display Academy, the Spyder2 Pro, all my commercial customers out there who have demanded the best in color correction from me over the years, and of course my mom and dad. I stand on their genetic shoulders.

I will treasure this perfect score as long as I can remember it, which in my age group (50-59) will be one or two weeks.

:-)

[michael]

I got a perfect score as well for the 20-29 range...non calibrated Dell XPS m1330. I think the secret is to stand back and try to look at it as a smooth gradation and pick out the ones that don't seem right.

[hugh crawford]

I got a four and I'm 53
I still use a crt though, a "korea data systems" that a neighbor was throwing out that is surprisingly good

Interestingly enough there are about four of the greenish blocks in the second row that I couldn't quite decide on in the Aston Martin green section, and sure enough those were the ones I seem to have missed.

[Adrian]

7, and I'm quite unhappy with my current monitor.

[sabawa]

mine :P

Your score: 7
Gender: Male
Age range: 40-49

[Blake Shaw]

0!

When I was an ophthalmology resident I learned about the Farnsworth-Munsell Hue Discrimination Test, but never actually sat down to take it.

Looks like my Macbook Pro has pretty accurate color...

[stephan mantler]

Another 4, in the 30-39 demographic. On a Macbook Pro laptop (calibrated, though). What I find especially interesting is not really the absolute score, but to know where in the hue range I made the mistakes.

[Minna]

I often seem to struggle with colour casts in my pictures so I had been thinking that I'm must be colour impaired... but apparently not, because I got a perfect 0!

[tofu]

4! not bad for me..... 40-49, apple cinema display......

[Michael]

4

Male, 35yrs, on a 15" MBP that hasn't been calibrated in about three months. Fell down in the earthy terracotta tones.

Keen to try again on my old CRT later today.

[John Camp]

4, age range 60-69

I was pretty sure I'd aced it , until I looked at the score.

Wonder if the scoring is based on shifts, so you could get a 4 with one chip four spaces wrong, or four chips each one space off...

Not as hard as getting Mike's anti-robot number posting gizmo -- I fail that about once a week.

JC

[Allan Moult]

First go 13 [best and only in my age group - 60+]

[Ruddy Roye]

did a 32 30-39

[K.Harrington]

I'm 68 years old and scored a perfect "0" - made my day!

[erlik]

Hah! Picture perfect. :-) Zero. Age group 40-49. No matrix - CRT.

There is an even harder test, with areas all put together, not in a line. Of course, I have no idea where it is.

[Fero Mastic]

I got a 0. I never had my monitor calibrated (DELL 2407WFP-HC V2). (20-29 age group)

[Robin P]

Not much fun first thing in the morning and only on my second coffee. Perhaps I should try it again in the evening when I do most photo processing.
Age 57, score 8.

Cheers, Robin

[ash]

CRT: 8
LCD: 22

Male, 40-49

[Jernej]

16

I had to leave it for a few minutes because my brain started playing tricks after staring at it for a few minutes.

[Marten Collins]

Mmmm I got a 21 (age range 60-69)Maybe that's why I have always preferred B&W over the last 40 years!

[Fred Fund]

Got a 0 8-)
40-49 range (actually i'm just 40 and I'm beginning to hate those age categories)
I think my very old but calibrated Hitachi CRT display is for something in that score. I think i will try again with a friend's (calibrated) LCD, it could be interesting...

[James]

4 with a bad hangover. A weakness in the greens, apparently. Male, 30 - 39. Do I get a prize?

[David]

I got 7 which amazes my wife who claims that I can't tell brown from olive green.

[Matti Sulanto]

My score was 4. I'll be 47 in January.

[Eric Kellerman]

Age: 64
Score: 4
Monitor: LaCie Electron blue IV (CRT), older than me in dog/hardware years ...

[Aravind Nair]

It was fun!
On a non-calibrated, cheap CRT monitor,

Score: 3

(Age Group: 40-49)

[Graydon]

A paltry 28, from the 40-49 age bracket.

Clearly, I need a better monitor. (That being much less disturbing a prospect than better eyes!)

[Joostvanderborg]

I have to give the exact same comment as Bill Corbett, a perfect score yet currently wearing two different coloured socks! Tested on an uncalibrated macbook btw.

[Matthew Allen]

I got 7 on an uncalibrated Dell laptop screen. I'm 19.

Matthew

[Tapani Linnaluoto]

I scored a 4. I thought this would be harder than that with a three-year-old consumer LCD screen, which is not calibrated.

M, 20-29 age range.

[Bron Janulis]

I just felt the need to paraphrase:

"We don't need no stinkin tests.."

Which might say more about me..........

Bron

[David Vatovec]

Scored 11 in my age group (30-39).

[Kazi]

Male 50 year old (as of last week) and got a 0 as well - a bit stunned to be honest. Maybe there's another career out there for me.

[Sean]

64

(30-39)

It looks like my seven year old Sony has to go...

Or I need new eyes

[Yu-Lin Chan]

I am surprised I got a perfect score! I took a screen shot of the score screen as proof, so that I can brag about it to my wife :)

[Ted Johnson]

My score was zero.

[Yu-Lin Chan]

Forgot to mention I am 43 years of age.

[charlie d]

I did this a few weeks ago and scored a 12 I bet if I did this at night with no lights on I would get them all.

[Peter]

4 (30-39)
* On a beat up old CRT that hasn't been calibrated in a long, long while, which I need to replace.

To be honest I'm quite relieved by that score, after staring at the those color patches for a while I was beginning to wonder if I've slightly color blind my whole life and never realized it.

After getting that score, now I wish I'd spent a little bit more time on the later patches, because there was something in there that was bothering me, but I couldn't quite figure it out right away.

[Stuart]

I got 81, 30-39 age range...

I'm red/green colour blind, so I didn't expect to do very well, I wish it would show exactly which tiles were in the wrong places.

[Mauricio Salazar]

I scored 4. Non calibrated, violettish old Apple Cinema. I don't know if I should be happy because I got a low score of scared because I got it on a crappy monitor. What does that tell you about my "eyes calibration"?

[Chuck]

I got a 20, which is disappointing as I was sure I aced the thing. All of my misses were in the blue/green area of the spectrum and clumped into two small groups.

In my defense, I am getting old (40-49 age group).