# 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:** 4
**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2012, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/according-to-this-stupid-color-acuity-test-on-fb/626421/61 "2012-06-27T20:10:43Z")
Interesting test. I thought it was going to take forever but after getting the hang of it with the first row, things went rather quickly. Got a 22. Which I thought was pretty good until I saw what others are posting. ---
**Author:** ![maggenpye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecc23a/32.png) [@maggenpye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/maggenpye)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2012, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/according-to-this-stupid-color-acuity-test-on-fb/626421/62 "2012-06-27T20:20:45Z")
I took the test on my laptop this time (PC last time) I can’t remember my exact score to compare it to, but I think my current 8 is slightly worse. But that could be bias, since I think the colour is worse on the laptop. ---
**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, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/according-to-this-stupid-color-acuity-test-on-fb/626421/63 "2012-06-27T20:31:40Z")
Woohoo! Just tried it again on a different computer and got [a perfect 0](http://img818.imageshack.us/img818/6297/perfectcolor.jpg)! ---
**Author:** ![Jman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jman/32/4416_2.png) [@Jman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jman)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2012, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/according-to-this-stupid-color-acuity-test-on-fb/626421/64 "2012-06-27T20:45:44Z")
I got an 8. And this was on my pretty poorly calibrated screen at work. My home monitor has a better color gamut so maybe I’d have been able to score perfect there. I’m glad I have pretty good color acuity, as I’m a photographer. My wife has horrible color differentiation…she tells me some shades are very strange colors and such when I can clearly see they are not. The test at least lets me know I’m not completely crazy. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Terraplane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/74df32/32.png) [@Terraplane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terraplane)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2012, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/according-to-this-stupid-color-acuity-test-on-fb/626421/65 "2012-06-27T20:59:27Z")
4, only problem area was the green/turquoise spectrum. 34 year old male. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Righteous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Dr.Righteous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Righteous)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2012, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/according-to-this-stupid-color-acuity-test-on-fb/626421/66 "2012-06-27T21:01:41Z")
I’ll be interested to see if anyone gets worse than my score (172). If total color blindness gets you that 1520, I expect someone here will have it worse off than I do. Or not. ---
**Author:** ![Shagnasty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9dc877/32.png) [@Shagnasty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shagnasty)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2012, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/according-to-this-stupid-color-acuity-test-on-fb/626421/67 "2012-06-27T21:02:02Z")
Another 4. 39 year old male. ---
**Author:** ![misling](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3ab097/32.png) [@misling](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/misling)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2012, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/according-to-this-stupid-color-acuity-test-on-fb/626421/68 "2012-06-27T21:15:34Z")
I got 0. According to the compare results page, 99 is poor. I guess they don’t expect anyone to get 1500 or more… I knew my color discrimination was good. So’s my color memory. I can go buy a tee shirt that exactly goes with my trousers at home - and I know from shopping with my friends that most people have to bring their existing piece of clothing with them in order to buy something that goes well with it. Too bad my vision mostly sucks otherwise. ---
**Author:** ![Covered\_In\_Bees](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7ab992/32.png) [@Covered\_In\_Bees](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Covered_In_Bees)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2012, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/according-to-this-stupid-color-acuity-test-on-fb/626421/69 "2012-06-27T21:15:46Z")
I got a 16, which is a lot better than I was expecting considering my visual ailments. ---
**Author:** ![Antigen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/848f3c/32.png) [@Antigen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antigen)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2012, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/according-to-this-stupid-color-acuity-test-on-fb/626421/70 "2012-06-27T21:29:17Z")
Hooray, a 16 for me! I’m curious to see how my husband does on a test like this, because we’re always disagreeing on whether a color is more greenish or blueish. ---
**Author:** ![Faruiza](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ecd19e/32.png) [@Faruiza](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Faruiza)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2012, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/according-to-this-stupid-color-acuity-test-on-fb/626421/71 "2012-06-27T21:48:16Z")
> [@garygnu](#): > > I got a 4. I’ve always been good with color, and one of my jobs is picture framing, which requires a good eye for color matching. 4! And I used to be a picture framer too! This may be totally out of left field, but a small wonder to me is whether there is a correlation between how well or how poorly someone perceives color with their eyes and instances of color related synesthesia. Are there higher instances of synesthesia among those who see color better or worse? ---
**Author:** ![MacCat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maccat/32/216_2.png) [@MacCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacCat)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2012, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/according-to-this-stupid-color-acuity-test-on-fb/626421/72 "2012-06-27T22:17:53Z")
> [@AaronX](#): > > I got 11, but the MacBook Pro’s screen does have colour problems ([MacBook aNd I: The MacBook Pro's screen](http://mbni.blogspot.sg/2010/06/macbook-pros-screen.html)) I wish I could try this on an IPS monitor. I got a 0 on the same machine, but color is a big part of my aptitude, education & profession… ---
**Author:** ![Hermitian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hermitian/32/470_2.png) [@Hermitian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hermitian)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2012, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/according-to-this-stupid-color-acuity-test-on-fb/626421/73 "2012-06-27T22:55:17Z")
I worked on it a bit at work, but did not complete it. I knew the complete POS monitor there was not helping. I came home on my nice IPS monitor and got a perfect score. ---
**Author:** ![Gangster\_Octopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a8b319/32.png) [@Gangster\_Octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gangster_Octopus)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2012, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/according-to-this-stupid-color-acuity-test-on-fb/626421/74 "2012-06-27T23:22:10Z")
I got a 23 with my biggest problem being the green-blue transition ---
**Author:** ![Gangster\_Octopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a8b319/32.png) [@Gangster\_Octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gangster_Octopus)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2012, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/according-to-this-stupid-color-acuity-test-on-fb/626421/75 "2012-06-27T23:32:48Z")
BTW, the website it is on is a company that sells monitor color calibrators, so it isn’t an accident that this is a major theme in this thread. ---
**Author:** ![malkavia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/malkavia/32/5621_2.png) [@malkavia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/malkavia)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2012, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/according-to-this-stupid-color-acuity-test-on-fb/626421/76 "2012-06-27T23:46:10Z")
I scored a 7, but my eyes hurt now. 😕 ---
**Author:** ![Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/malleus_incus_stapes/32/3293_2.png) [@Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malleus_Incus_Stapes)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2012, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/according-to-this-stupid-color-acuity-test-on-fb/626421/77 "2012-06-28T00:41:36Z")
[Elan] I got a 4! [/Elan] Weird how we all seem to have troubles in the blue-green one. I wonder if it’s something wrong with the test. ---
**Author:** ![Enkel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/df705f/32.png) [@Enkel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enkel)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2012, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/according-to-this-stupid-color-acuity-test-on-fb/626421/78 "2012-06-28T01:00:51Z")
I got an 8, but the range I messed up in is the bottom bar. By that time, I was a bit bored, so I’m claiming ADD instead of color blindness. ---
**Author:** ![colonial](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/34f0e0/32.png) [@colonial](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/colonial)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2012, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/according-to-this-stupid-color-acuity-test-on-fb/626421/79 "2012-06-28T01:39:05Z")
99 They say scores range from 0{best} to 1520 for my age and gender. I wonder what the statistical spread is, though. ---
**Author:** ![Kozmik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/8dc957/32.png) [@Kozmik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kozmik)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2012, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/according-to-this-stupid-color-acuity-test-on-fb/626421/80 "2012-06-28T03:20:17Z")
I found [the missing shade of blue](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Missing_Shade_of_Blue). 😃 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/according-to-this-stupid-color-acuity-test-on-fb/626421.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/according-to-this-stupid-color-acuity-test-on-fb/626421.md?page=5)