How well do you know your colors?

wizo · Jul 2010

hEY PC,

Does anyone know where to find the "how well do you know your colors". You had to place many color swatches with different saturation from dark to light. It was posted on here about a year ago and I am desperatly looking onto google but without any results...

Anyone here happen to have it bookmarked?

Firebert · Jul 2010

http://www.polycount.com/forum/showpost.php?p=842812&postcount=1

Slum · Jul 2010

Whoah. I got a score of 8 on my lesser-quality, low-contrast monitor. After the test I moved the window over to my better monitor and the color contrast was much better. I wonder how my score would have been on that monitor.

wizo · Jul 2010

Thank you!!

Slum · Jul 2010

There was another one post a while back, where you have to match colors using sliders. Anyone have that link handy?

Muzzoid · Jul 2010

i hate being a colour blind artist....

got a score of 168

...

I should try this again in the morning when i havent been staring at a monitor for 12+ hours today.

Adam Curtis · Jul 2010

7. I remeber doing this when the last thread was up and getting a much lower score. Think the monitor quality effects it a fair bit!

Pseudo · Jul 2010

Kind of cool to see this again. I took the test on my shiny new dell 30" at work, which came with some fancy $100 software to color correct it and assumed that I would improve on my old score, which was on my cheapo samsung at home.

Turns out I got the exact same score (4).

Edit - now that I think about it, the quality of the display probably wouldn't have much of an effect after a certain point because the colors are all relative to each other. So as long as the display has a decent range of contrast it would be tough to see different results on different monitors.

haiddasalami · Jul 2010

39

but was on my macbook pro. Seems my mac just blurs green and reds together

dn-revenge · Jul 2010

11 hmmm...

ZacD · Jul 2010

I got 4 on my cheap monitor

kinda rushed through it, too.

MegaMoogle · Jul 2010

12, not bad. My monitor tends to change colors a bit, I probably should have done it on my Cintiq.

Pierate · Jul 2010

Oh wow I actually got a 0 on this, I did not expect that

ericdigital · Jul 2010

Ha I managed a 3! Figured I would do terrible. very cool

Kuki · Jul 2010

I got a score of 11 with a HP Notebook.

naturon · Jul 2010

woo 3!
I love my tablet pc

bbob · Jul 2010

woot a zero!

X-One · Jul 2010

4 for me. I figured I'd do way worse. I guess I'm okay with seeing the colours, seems I just suck at using them.

ColinR · Jul 2010

Perfect score of zero. And that's on a £120 Hanns G TN panel monitor. Impressive screen so it seems.

notman · Jul 2010

17... eh, not bad I guess. I blame my monitor for not having a better score :P

EMC3D · Jul 2010

Your score: 12

Two Listen · Jul 2010

I'm on a Samsung SyncMaster T220. Calibrated it myself a few years ago when I got it, it's been great.

robioto · Jul 2010

Oh cool I got a zero. That was fun thanks for digging this up!

Mezz · Jul 2010

15... was hoping I could do better, but by the end, my eyes were just blurring the colours together XD Still, not bad!
(I remember doing this last time this thread came up... I think I might have gotten about the same score then?)

RAL · Jul 2010

This was pretty cool. Colors started blending in at the end for me, but I got a score of zero.

Avanthera · Jul 2010

22!
Im on a craigslist crt too.

JasonLavoie · Jul 2010

I do it fo tha money!

conte · Jul 2010

Zephiris · Jul 2010

Zero for me as well. Yatta \o/

Autocon · Jul 2010

Perfect score of zero for me too. Where Jason dose it for the money, I do it for chicks.

Moosey_G · Jul 2010

Score of 20. Gonna go cry now.

Sluggo · Jul 2010

Holy Crap! I scored a zero...sweet!

Sorry, I know this is my first post, but I'm just surprised at myself, since I have had no type of formal art education or training before in my life. I just stumbled upon this sight to try to learn more about 3D modeling and such. I'm an avid gamer, and a tinkerer at heart, so it makes sense that I would want to dig into this kinda thing a little deeper...

Sorry again for the thread hijack.

acc · Jul 2010

Last time I got 4 on a CRT with good colour.

This time I got 3 on a TN LCD with mediocre colour.

Strange, but more importantly damn you turquoise!!!

Rwolf · Jul 2010

"PERFECT" - Dead Rising

Andrew Mackie · Jul 2010

29.
I'm ok with this :P

JFletcher · Jul 2010

Mezz wrote: »

15... was hoping I could do better, but by the end, my eyes were just blurring the colours together XD Still, not bad!

Yeah my eyes were totally fucked after the first bar, I ended up seeing bright horizontal lines that rotated with my head when looking at my monitor so I decided to stop.

Will try it again later, heh. Damn dark room.. Oh wait its night, guess i should sleep.

wizo · Jul 2010

haha how are you guys even trying this after a day of work, thats hardcore. I tried it this morning with a score of 14 but at that point I felt the colors had been permanetly imprinted on my retina.. lol

Sleep is a good idea JFletcher but since yesterday it has been starcraft 2 instead.

imb3nt · Jul 2010

I got a 9.

It said the highest score in my age bracket was 1520, which i think would be even more difficult to go for.

Call Me Snoopy · Jul 2010

I got a 20. :poly134:
I tried for a second time, but I just couldn't stare at the colours anymore.

commador · Jul 2010

0. Huzzah. Now if only my visual acuity were as good.

brandoom · Jul 2010

boo, I only got 24. But, to be honest, at the current moment in time, I am half sober. So perhaps my score will be better tomorrow.

Muzzoid · Jul 2010

you guys are all making me feel bad

.

how the hell did i get a job in industry

...

Steve Schulze · Jul 2010

14. I think the green channel on this monitor is out of whack. Or maybe the green channel in my eyes. Either way.

BlackulaDZ · Jul 2010

24 the first time, then I switched my monitor mode to "movie" and did it again, scoring a 3

d1ver · Jul 2010

4.
Wow, I thought it would be worse)

Del · Jul 2010

Four for me

Disco Stu · Jul 2010

35 and i thought i was doing pretty good!

SpeCter · Jul 2010

Got a perfect 0 i´m so proud

.Kinda funny though, it was like my eyes were highlighting the ones which were not in place.

ENODMI · Jul 2010

A zero, weeeeee:)

DrunkShaman · Jul 2010

Muzz wrote: »

i hate being a colour blind artist....

got a score of 168 ...

I should try this again in the morning when i havent been staring at a monitor for 12+ hours today.

So we have colour blind artists now.

Ben Apuna · Aug 2010

Cool, I was wanting to try this test again with my new monitor.

Scored a zero on my CRT last time. Now with my new Dell 2311h I also got a zero I'm glad to see it's got good color accuracy though a few of the blocks seemed to be a little off contrast wise.

How well do you know your colors?

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