Colour Vision Test

[buffo]

I did this test a few years ago and got a 4. Just repeated it really quickly and got a 6.

The blues and greens seem to be the hardest for me.

Adam

[Bradfo69]

Third try... 15. Damnit. I liked the 12 better but, I "did" leave the flourescent lights on this time.

[danielbriggs]

You'll get there Brad!

(Full marks for effort.)

[The_Doctor]

I got a zero the second time I tried, a few days later. Don't worry about ambient lighting, just look at the balance of hues as you shift squares about. Pick one end of a line to do that with, and if you feel the temptation to start shoving them around at the other, don't resist it. If you focus on the bits you can do, by the time you get to the harder ones you'll be ready for them. I found it didn't seem to matter if I did it at one sitting or not either. Also interesting, you can do one line, score that, then the back button will let you try more without messing up your part-finished work. To avoid feeling like I'd cheated once I discovered that, I stuck to completing a line as best I could before I scored it. I never did figure out why those murky greens got me the first time. I also found that while tiredness and eyestrain can affect sight of detailed patterns, it didn't affect my ability to detect hues at all.

[Stiffler]

FUCK, being color blind sucks:-(

[The_Doctor]

But you can work round it, right? Somehow? My hearing in the right ear went bad a few months ago, and hasn't fully recovered, especially bad for programming music synthesizer code where a lot of the testing depends on listening. But there are ways round these things. What we lose in one ability, we gain in a never-ending fascination with our ability to adapt and find a way to sense and do things anyway. In vision, I find that sharp detail is seen in blue but not red. I suspect I'd find that subtelty endlessly useful even if I could barely tell the colours apart. I'd be screwed when it came to lots of gradients, but I'd be ok whenever I had to look at edges and fine detail. Also, while you find it hard to detect hue, how does it go when you're not thinking about colour? I guess laser light gives you pleasure. So regardless of how its colour looks, if it does something good in your brain, you've got something to go on. Having good colour vision might be like having a well-calibrated meter, but even if calibration is screwed, you can often make viable relative measures.

[iczerjones]

Your score: 7
Gender: Male
Age range: 30-39
Best score for your gender and age range: 0
Highest score for your gender and age range: 79999740

Geebus - that poor 79999740 guy.

Better than I would have thought.

[Galvonaut]

FUCK, being color blind sucks:-(

Especially if you are an electrician!