# How good of an eye for colour do you have? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 10, 2008, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-good-of-an-eye-for-colour-do-you-have/462970 "2008-09-10T18:04:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 9
**Author:** ![Sublight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Sublight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sublight)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2008, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-good-of-an-eye-for-colour-do-you-have/462970/161 "2008-10-15T16:03:30Z")
I tried it again and managed a 4. I emailed it around the office to all our designers. The scores were 0, 3, 3, 7, 12, 15, 25, 32, 34 and 80. The scores were loosely correlated with age, as most of the low scores were in their 20’s and early 30’s, while the high scores were all over 40. ---
**Author:** ![Litoris](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/9f8e36/32.png) [@Litoris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Litoris)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2008, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-good-of-an-eye-for-colour-do-you-have/462970/162 "2008-10-15T16:07:01Z")
> [@Cisco](#): > > I got a 12. > > Hooo boy, I found this out the hard way. One time when we were kids, my brother told me to make some Kool-Aid. I asked what flavor and he said cherry. I said I wanted grape. He said make cherry or I’ll kick your ass. Being a practical joker, but also very concerned for my well-being, I made cherry. But I dropped a few drops of blue food-coloring in it to turn it purple. I brought him a glass and he said this is grape, I am going to kick your ass. I pleaded, no, it’s cherry! Taste it! > > He tasted it. > > Then he said it was grape. > > Then he kicked my ass. This made me LOL, thanks. ---
**Author:** ![Dazzling\_White\_Diamonds](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/41988e/32.png) [@Dazzling\_White\_Diamonds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dazzling_White_Diamonds)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2008, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-good-of-an-eye-for-colour-do-you-have/462970/163 "2008-10-15T18:15:03Z")
Your score: 4 Gender: Female Age range: 40-49 Best score for your gender and age range: 0 Highest score for your gender and age range: 1421 I can tell everyone right now that I opened up the test on my laptop monitor, and when I saw how absolute little difference there was between the beginning and ending colors, I moved the window over to my other screen (dual monitor setup). The difference was **staggering**. ETA: It also told me the color range I had problems with were in the blue/green range. ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2008, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-good-of-an-eye-for-colour-do-you-have/462970/164 "2008-10-15T18:31:18Z")
Another 7. 40, male. Cheap-ass bulk-purchase Dell LCD monitor. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2008, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-good-of-an-eye-for-colour-do-you-have/462970/165 "2008-10-15T18:49:28Z")
You have perfect color vision! FM Hue Test Results A lower score is better, with ZERO being the perfect score. The bars above show the regions of the color spectrum where hue discrimination is low. Based on your information, below is how your score compares to those of others with similar demographic information. Your score: 0 Gender: Male Age range: 40-49 Best score for your gender and age range: 0 Highest score for your gender and age range: 1462 0 ( Perfect )99 ( High ) ---
**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2008, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-good-of-an-eye-for-colour-do-you-have/462970/166 "2008-10-15T18:54:26Z")
> [@Litoris](#): > > This made me LOL, thanks. I’m glad someone enjoyed it. I thought it sucked! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Flander](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8c91f0/32.png) [@Flander](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flander)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2008, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-good-of-an-eye-for-colour-do-you-have/462970/167 "2008-10-15T19:02:59Z")
- Your score: 0 - Gender: Male - Age range: 20-29 - Best score for your gender and age range: 0 - Highest score for your gender and age range: 1520 FTR, my visual accuity isn’t so hot. ---
**Author:** ![Oredigger77](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/oredigger77/32/3181_2.png) [@Oredigger77](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oredigger77)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2008, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-good-of-an-eye-for-colour-do-you-have/462970/168 "2008-10-15T21:49:10Z")
I have absolutly no reason for doing as well as I did but I just moved them around untill they just blended together and i got a 15. Male, 25 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-good-of-an-eye-for-colour-do-you-have/462970.md?page=8)