# According to this stupid color acuity test on FB... **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 27, 2012, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/according-to-this-stupid-color-acuity-test-on-fb/626421 "2012-06-27T03:17:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/96bed5/32.png) [@Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Patty_O_Furniture)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2012, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/according-to-this-stupid-color-acuity-test-on-fb/626421/1 "2012-06-27T03:17:42Z")
… I have the cones of Mr. Magoo. [Link to test](http://www.xrite.com/custom_page.aspx?pageid=77&lang=en). [My result… 98!](http://pic20.picturetrail.com/VOL1473/5747827/15966180/403200372.jpg) Seriously, I can see a few more squares I might flip around but otherwise it looks pretty close to me. Is my result really that bad? ---
**Author:** ![Duckster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duckster/32/1244_2.png) [@Duckster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duckster)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2012, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/according-to-this-stupid-color-acuity-test-on-fb/626421/2 "2012-06-27T03:36:41Z")
Did you check it against your age and gender? ---
**Author:** ![Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/96bed5/32.png) [@Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Patty_O_Furniture)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2012, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/according-to-this-stupid-color-acuity-test-on-fb/626421/3 "2012-06-27T03:41:12Z")
To see if misery really does love company? 😃 Usually these goofy tests want your personal info once you get the results so I’m in the habit of not clicking on any “compare your results” button. I might try it again once my eyes have fully uncrossed. ---
**Author:** ![Inter\_Alia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/258eb7/32.png) [@Inter\_Alia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inter_Alia)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2012, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/according-to-this-stupid-color-acuity-test-on-fb/626421/4 "2012-06-27T03:47:42Z")
Mine’s 23. I was expecting worse. ---
**Author:** ![Pork\_Rind](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pork_rind/32/111_2.png) [@Pork\_Rind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pork_Rind)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2012, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/according-to-this-stupid-color-acuity-test-on-fb/626421/5 "2012-06-27T03:50:15Z")
I took this test a while back and got in the low single digits. Then one of my employees put me in my place by getting a zero, a perfect score. I sat in my office and sulked. ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2012, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/according-to-this-stupid-color-acuity-test-on-fb/626421/6 "2012-06-27T03:52:54Z")
I got low color acuity, 99. Of course blues were bad because I don’t see that range well. ---
**Author:** ![tesseract](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bb73d2/32.png) [@tesseract](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tesseract)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2012, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/according-to-this-stupid-color-acuity-test-on-fb/626421/7 "2012-06-27T03:58:57Z")
Mine was 11. I definitely had to switch around a lot of the tiles - so if you only swapped a few, I could see how your score wouldn’t be great… ---
**Author:** ![nikonikosuru](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/5f8ce5/32.png) [@nikonikosuru](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nikonikosuru)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2012, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/according-to-this-stupid-color-acuity-test-on-fb/626421/8 "2012-06-27T03:59:13Z")
Mine said I got 0. :eek: I’m pretty good with colors but I really wonder if I actually got a perfect on it. I’ll have to retry to make sure it’s not a glitch as soon as my eyes feel back to normal. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2012, 4:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/according-to-this-stupid-color-acuity-test-on-fb/626421/9 "2012-06-27T04:07:04Z")
I got a 12! Pheer my leet color-discrimination skillz. ---
**Author:** ![Suburban\_Plankton](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suburban_plankton/32/219_2.png) [@Suburban\_Plankton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Suburban_Plankton)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2012, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/according-to-this-stupid-color-acuity-test-on-fb/626421/10 "2012-06-27T04:26:35Z")
I got a 19. It would nice to see some sort of percentile score…all I really know is that I fall closer to the best score for my gender/age range (0) than the worst (1520). ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2012, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/according-to-this-stupid-color-acuity-test-on-fb/626421/11 "2012-06-27T04:33:05Z")
1. Not bad for an old guy. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2012, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/according-to-this-stupid-color-acuity-test-on-fb/626421/12 "2012-06-27T04:33:17Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > I got a 12! Pheer my leet color-discrimination skillz. Suck it[sup]\*[/sup], I got an 8! Okay, don’t suck it, but the board software won’t let me post just “8”. ---
**Author:** ![AClockworkMelon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aclockworkmelon/32/10803_2.png) [@AClockworkMelon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AClockworkMelon)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2012, 4:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/according-to-this-stupid-color-acuity-test-on-fb/626421/13 "2012-06-27T04:43:10Z")
[My score: 4.](http://i45.tinypic.com/2eg40o6.png) Edit: And yeah, OP, when looking at your result it definitely doesn’t look like a smooth color transition to me. It chops back and forth in hue. ---
**Author:** ![StGermain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stgermain/32/2868_2.png) [@StGermain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StGermain)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2012, 5:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/according-to-this-stupid-color-acuity-test-on-fb/626421/14 "2012-06-27T05:03:19Z")
15, far better than I expected. StG ---
**Author:** ![Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eyebrows_0f_doom/32/3119_2.png) [@Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eyebrows_0f_Doom)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2012, 5:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/according-to-this-stupid-color-acuity-test-on-fb/626421/15 "2012-06-27T05:06:11Z")
I got a 12. Pretty good! ---
**Author:** ![Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/96bed5/32.png) [@Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Patty_O_Furniture)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2012, 5:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/according-to-this-stupid-color-acuity-test-on-fb/626421/16 "2012-06-27T05:06:35Z")
> [@Suburban\_Plankton](#): > > I got a 19. It would nice to see some sort of percentile score…all I really know is that I fall closer to the best score for my gender/age range (0) than the worst (1520). Where does it say this? I assumed the range was 0-100. I feel a little better now with my score of 98. ---
**Author:** ![PandaBear77](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/edb3f5/32.png) [@PandaBear77](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PandaBear77)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2012, 5:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/according-to-this-stupid-color-acuity-test-on-fb/626421/17 "2012-06-27T05:07:56Z")
53 ---
**Author:** ![Kenm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/bc79bd/32.png) [@Kenm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kenm)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2012, 5:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/according-to-this-stupid-color-acuity-test-on-fb/626421/18 "2012-06-27T05:15:30Z")
Is it worth the time to do the test when probably every monitor used in this thread has different colour characteristics? Really, each monitor would have to be colour calibrated with pro equipment (and probably be a professional CRT — unless I’m too far out of date) so each would match the others before the test could be expected to produce anywhere near legitimate, comparable results. Relax, high scorers. The colours can be different even between two different browsers on the same machine. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Strangelove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr.strangelove/32/6613_2.png) [@Dr.Strangelove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Strangelove)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2012, 5:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/according-to-this-stupid-color-acuity-test-on-fb/626421/19 "2012-06-27T05:21:29Z")
Perfect 0. I took the same test a while back and remember getting a 4 or something, so there must be a smidge of luck involved. My monitor also is pretty poor at color reproduction. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Strangelove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr.strangelove/32/6613_2.png) [@Dr.Strangelove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Strangelove)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2012, 5:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/according-to-this-stupid-color-acuity-test-on-fb/626421/20 "2012-06-27T05:26:32Z")
> [@Suburban\_Plankton](#): > > I got a 19. It would nice to see some sort of percentile score…all I really know is that I fall closer to the best score for my gender/age range (0) than the worst (1520). Well, 1520 is actually worse than the worst–it means you exactly reversed the patterns, implying that you actually need very good acuity to achieve that score. Someone with no color acuity at all is likely to score around half that. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/according-to-this-stupid-color-acuity-test-on-fb/626421.md?page=2)