How Colorblind are You?
27 Jun 2012An interactive online Hue test. Itβs a little tedious to sort all the squares – but kind of challenging too. I got a 20, which apparently puts me in the top 25% or so.
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28 Responses to How Colorblind are You?
Samantha
June 27th, 2012 at 9:16 am
Wow – I scored 0!
Matt
June 27th, 2012 at 10:06 am
I scored 250, but I don’t know what that means. I realize that a low score is better, but it would be nice to see a percentile rank.
Vladimir
June 27th, 2012 at 10:48 am
Got 15.
Oliver
June 27th, 2012 at 10:51 am
I wonder how much your LCD effects the score. I’m using an Apple Cinema Display…I’m in the 30-39 age bracket and I scored a 15.
Milan
June 27th, 2012 at 11:10 am
Scored an 8. 20-29 age range, male. I walk into street signs w/o my glasses, but it’s nice to know I can differentiate between bad smog days and moderate haze. Agreed, a percentile rank would be nice.
lenoch
June 27th, 2012 at 11:43 am
12 – so far best male score (hello kitty t-shirt probably helped a lot π )
Diarmid Langley
June 27th, 2012 at 12:21 pm
Scored 4. Age 40-49. Work as a Graphic Designer, so glad I can still see colours properly!
Phil Le Cheminant
June 27th, 2012 at 12:57 pm
Woop – perfect zero, first time! π
Hig
June 27th, 2012 at 2:43 pm
I scored 46 (age 35). I’m definitely color-blind, which I’ve known since I was a kid. The thing that seemed odd is it put my percentile at >50%. I’m pretty sure I’m more colorblind than half the male population…
I also put a fair amount of effort into ordering the colors. Maybe this is scored against the test population, and a lot of people aren’t trying very hard. It is a fair bit of work.
I agree monitor must be relevant too. I’m on a MacBook Pro 15″ that’s a couple years old.
Ryan
June 27th, 2012 at 4:22 pm
As a neuroendocrinologist interested in sex differences and sexual orientation, I found this intriguing. I scored a 6. Male, straight, 33. I’m interested to know this information from other test takers.
Oliver has a very good point though. I think display quality, type and color settings would greatly influence the results for any one individual.
Jenn
June 27th, 2012 at 4:38 pm
I always knew I organized my Crayola box nicely. Scored a 7.
KT
June 27th, 2012 at 5:04 pm
Female, 31. Another female representing with a perfect score of 0!
Nikki Isaac
June 27th, 2012 at 5:11 pm
16 does not seem so bad last thing at night and about to call it a day!
Yang
June 27th, 2012 at 11:15 pm
scored 8. Age 20-29, female.
David S.
June 29th, 2012 at 11:01 am
Scored a 14.
Male, age 41.
The lack of context here for the scoring is fairly annoying.
Thomas Witek
July 2nd, 2012 at 7:16 am
38/male. Scored a 25. I think it has a lot to do with the monitor you use…
Someone
July 2nd, 2012 at 3:14 pm
It’s not color blind, it’s color deficient, color blind is black and white… (yes this is the right way to say it).
Shirley
July 3rd, 2012 at 1:44 pm
Got a 7. Female, age 40-50 … terribly nearsighted, but nice to know my color sense works!
bur99
July 8th, 2012 at 10:49 am
Your score: 0
Gender: Male
Age range: 30-39
Best score for your gender and age range: 0
Highest score for your gender and age range: 1520
I always thought I wasn’t good at differentiating hues.
Day
July 10th, 2012 at 7:00 am
Zero! π
Day
July 10th, 2012 at 7:12 am
First time, zero! Happy me!
significance
July 18th, 2012 at 2:40 am
I scored 8 (F, in my 30s). I suspect that this isn’t a great test as so much of it comes down to motivation: how much time are you prepared to put into arranging little boxes perfectly?
I also didn’t find where it gives a percentile range.
Tarsem
July 23rd, 2012 at 6:56 am
I scored 38.
Can somebody tell me how can I improve.???
Paul
July 25th, 2012 at 7:33 pm
Male 45. I scored a 38. My weakness was in the mid-zones.
Dave K
July 27th, 2012 at 5:43 am
Male, 51, scored a 32. My shortcoming was mainly in the blue transitioning into green ranges. Interesting.
Machi
August 15th, 2012 at 10:45 am
Male, 23, “You have perfect color vision!”
Evan
November 26th, 2012 at 7:01 am
Male 28, scored a 0. Part of it may have to do with familiarity.
I’m not a designer by trade but I have done a lot of design in the past so I’m probably better tuned to see subtle changes in hue.
BTW, I’m using a nothing-special Dell laptop. Every display made in the past decade supports 24bit (16.7 million hues) or greater color. Unless you’re using a poorly tuned CRT display your monitor probably won’t change the results much.
John S
December 3rd, 2012 at 11:25 am
Male age 54. I can’t pass the color test with the dots and the numbers. Red/Green deficient. Kept me from advancing when I was in the Coast Guard.
I scored a 50, actually better than I thought.