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Hair Stylist

rick lesser

Posts: 1116

Fort Lauderdale, Florida, US

This was posted in the general form but thought it would be fun to share here.  I got a 16.  Not happy about that but I guess for my age (ugh) and the fact that I am a man it wasn't too bad.  www.xrite.com/online-color-test-challenge

Apr 11 16 10:35 am Link

Makeup Artist

beautybykatealece

Posts: 41

Sacramento, California, US

uhh I got a 74... Guess I can't see color very well.

Apr 12 16 06:36 pm Link

Makeup Artist

amelyMUA

Posts: 21

Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands

what a fun test to do! I love color i got a 7 smile

Apr 25 16 05:12 am Link

Makeup Artist

Danielle Blazer

Posts: 846

Los Angeles, California, US

Fun, I haven't taken a test like this before! I got a 4.

Apr 25 16 10:47 am Link

Photographer

Chris David Photography

Posts: 561

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

First time I took this test was with a large photography company almost a decade ago using those physical tiles and got a perfect score. This scored an 8. Its funny that more of the companies female photo retouchers got lower scores which goes against the statistics.

May 09 16 05:30 am Link

Makeup Artist

ShannonJennings MUA

Posts: 127

Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia

I got a 39. I thought I would do better because I play a game on my phone called blendoku which is similar and has helped me greatly with recognizing and mixing colour. Oh well room to improve smile

May 26 16 06:37 am Link

Clothing Designer

GRMACK

Posts: 5436

Bakersfield, California, US

ShannonJennings MUA wrote:
I got a 39. I thought I would do better because I play a game on my phone called blendoku which is similar and has helped me greatly with recognizing and mixing colour. Oh well room to improve smile

Only 24 here, but I also play that Blendoku game on my 10" tablet.  I'm up to Level 4 and 36 now and stuck there.  Interesting color game.

May 26 16 08:47 am Link

Photographer

R.EYE.R

Posts: 3436

Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

2 on average. Got 0 few times as well as 4. Depends on how bored I am.
Been playing with it at least once a month since quite a few years back..

May 26 16 06:28 pm Link

Photographer

Vito

Posts: 4581

Brooklyn, New York, US

I got a 294.

May 27 16 10:35 am Link

Makeup Artist

The Ministry of Glamour

Posts: 140

Victoria, British Columbia, Canada

That was a fun yet slightly stressful test. I talk a lot of trash about how I'm good with colour, so I was nervous to put my money where my mouth is...but I scored a "0" and actually surprised myself a bit!

Must have that "fourth cone" : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetrachromacy

Aug 16 16 09:58 pm Link

Retoucher

3869283

Posts: 1464

Sofia, Sofija grad, Bulgaria

https://photos.modelmayhem.com/photos/160817/03/57b43d3bbfc2a.jpg

From the first time.

Aug 17 16 03:36 am Link

Photographer

still-photography

Posts: 1591

Bothell, Washington, US

I must be damn near blind. I got a 4 and the best for my gender and age is negative 56

Online Color Challenge wrote:
Your score: 4
Gender: Male
Age range: 60-69
Best score for your gender and age range: -56
Highest score for your gender and age range: 567471

Aug 17 16 01:04 pm Link

Photographer

rfordphotos

Posts: 8866

Antioch, California, US

still-photography wrote:
I must be damn near blind. I got a 4 and the best for my gender and age is negative 56

Online Color Challenge wrote:
Your score: 4
Gender: Male
Age range: 60-69
Best score for your gender and age range: -56
Highest score for your gender and age range: 567471

exactly the same results.

curious how you get a negative 56 score... if perfect is 0 ...  better than perfect?

I have scored the same for the last several years on this test. 4 --- always have issues with a middle green hue.

Aug 17 16 07:15 pm Link

Photographer

Photos_by_Stan

Posts: 296

Youngstown, Ohio, US

my monitor must be better than I thought ... I got a 0
did not expect that
they should time it too though !

Aug 23 16 12:07 am Link

Photographer

normad

Posts: 11372

Saint Louis, Missouri, US

rfordphotos wrote:
curious how you get a negative 56 score... if perfect is 0 ...  better than perfect?
.

Maybe they are taking a log of some score?
that would map ( 0, +oo ]
to ( -oo , +oo )

The part between 0 and 1 gets stretched from -oo to almost 0,
1 goes to 0,
above one goes to (0 to +oo )

Aug 23 16 12:20 pm Link

Wardrobe Stylist

Shelle oReagan

Posts: 22

New Orleans, Louisiana, US

I got a 0.  Fun test.

Oct 17 16 04:41 pm Link

Photographer

Eyesso

Posts: 1218

Orlando, Florida, US

I got a zero (perfect score)....and I'm red-green colorblind.  If colorblindness is a visual deficiency, the natural compensation regarding visual information is that the brain pays close attention to subtle shade changes, ignoring color information.  I have no idea what colors those were.

Oct 18 16 07:20 am Link

Photographer

Wicked LA Pix

Posts: 2418

Yucaipa, California, US

I got a Zero...not bad for 60+ Looks like the eyes are still working good smile
now if I could just remember where I left my keys......

Oct 18 16 01:40 pm Link