
Are you the kind of person who can choose paint colors like nothing else? Do you instinctively know the difference between a warm red and a slightly cooler version? Test your color IQ with this quiz from x-rite. To take the quiz, you have to rearrange a randomly shuffled spectrum of colors by hue...

Although colors vary on different monitors, the test calculates your ability to organize hues in relation to one another on the screen, reducing the interference of monitor discrepancies. A low score is better, with zero being perfect. We scored a 4. Turns out our deficiency lies in the green range. To take the quiz yourself, click here.
Found via the Post Family.
25.
view Joan A.'s profile
19. That was fun!
view spiralcma's profile
I'm an 8... guess i better work on my greens too!!
view Maroha's profile
Got a 4.
My eyes hurt.
view sarahisaghost's profile
16.
almost blind now..
view *heather leaf*'s profile
I got a score of 2 (best is 0, worst is 99).
My 2 errors were both in the teal-blues.
view lightspeed's profile
i got a 3. I guess all that design school money was worth something!
view andrew c's profile
got a 4
view 8ry's profile
8. That hurt my eyes too. Teals and ochers were my trouble zones.
view LilyC's profile
16
That's make you see stripes!
view Ana's profile
Whoohoo! Perfect Score! (very confusing though - perfect score is 0?)
view amt230's profile
Perfect colour vision.
Based on your information, below is how your score compares to those of others with similar demographic information.
Your score: 0
Gender: Female
Age range: 20-29
Best score for your gender and age range: 0
Highest score for your gender and age range: 1409
view otis's profile
11. Mistakes in all ranges--wish they'd show a comparison (yours vs. correct).
Ouchy eyes. Fun, though!
view rockypondgirl's profile
perfect score! that's worth the blindness.
view Leo9's profile
8
view ehat's profile
0.
view wendi_c's profile
Scored a zero: "You have perfect color vision!"
* Your score: 0
* Gender: Male
* Age range: 30-39
* Best score for your gender and age range: 0
* Highest score for your gender and age range: 1464
I'm shocked, lol.
view AdamStL's profile
Wow I got a 3!
view suzy8track's profile
Wow, a 0!
Yay! :)
view brookberrys's profile
12 for me.
view terka27's profile
I got 4. I didn't expect to do that well.
view als1's profile
21. All wrong answers in green/red range.
Guess dad's color-blindness strikes again!
view brenjay's profile
I received an 8 on the website.
My best score from a physical test (at a Color Marketing Group conference) was a 2, which is classified as "perfect".
(www.colormarketing.org)
An interesting note for these types of tests; the lower scores are typically in even increments due to the fact that if you miss one color, you naturally have exchanged it with another.... so two colors are out of sequence.
I liked the physical test better because I was working in a light box. Additionally, in the physical test, you only work with one of the four color bars at time which equals fewer distractions for me!
view Anna (Atlanta)'s profile
Perfect. W00t. ...What a slow work day.
view Garrett22's profile
16
view kimdog's profile
Got a 0. Yay!
Now my eyes hurt. haha
view sarahash's profile
15.
Ow, my eyes....
view btoddster's profile
23. I'm blaming the fact that my boss just got out of her meeting and I know I shouldn't be tooling around online. "No outside internet use!"
That does not explain my concentrated issues in the warm pinks and yellows.
view katarose's profile
12
view cassbass's profile
O!
Ditto AdamStL - same report and same reaction.
view s and the r's profile
Perfect score
Woo Hoo!
My Mother used to play games like this with me as a kid.
I guess I have trained eyes.
view redbeard's profile
Yay - 0!
view twenty twenty-one's profile
26, but widely distributed errors. I think the test would be more accurate if they used bigger swatches.
view dtremit's profile
10
that was fun
view ainmi's profile
perfect zero!?! neato!
view AnyWhichWay's profile
0! Kind of surprised, though. The greens and turquoises in that one line all looked so similar.
Yeah, my eyes kind of hurt now.
view insanity_pepper's profile
0
Yeehaw! Although, considering how my eyes feel right now, I don't think I can do that again.
view Annie25's profile
Perfect Color Vision for me.
I kinda knew that though... dyslexia does have it's upsides sometimes. :)
view sparkle's profile
Perfect Score, Yay!
view Tse Moana's profile
25
The first two were easier. I wonder if I would have done better if I'd taken a break before finishing the last two...
view lurker2209's profile
I got a 24.
But I'm figuring that's not that bad, because I can go into a fabric store and by thread for fabric I haven't looked at in weeks, and get a perfect match.
view paintitbright's profile
24... not bad for someone with very little artistic inclination
view rose8199's profile
perfect color score! good thing, since i work in an art supply store...
view ae.woodford's profile
got an 8.
view GZgoingMod aka Geraldine's profile
I got a zero. Finally, a quiz I can get a perfect score on.
view asiaone's profile
I LOVE this! I got a 12. Then i looked up the comparisons and I saw that the highest score for my demographics was like 1400 something. Then I went back to the game and hit the "score" button with the tiles in their mixed state. The score for that was 992!
view Deidre88's profile
perfect score!
view Quince's profile
Wow - I got a 7
That hurt...
view bepsf's profile
I have perfect color vision! yay!
view Claire K's profile
I got a zero, my mother would be so proud.
view yolio's profile
I got a zero! Woohoo!
* Your score: 0
* Gender: Female
* Age range: 30-39
* Best score for your gender and age range: 0
* Highest score for your gender and age range: 1476
:o)
view Kouklah's profile
I got an 8. The dark background and the afterimages didn't really help. I guess it didn't affect others as much.
view K T G's profile
wow, I totally suck, I got a 34. No wonder me and my hubby think our couch is 2 totally different colors!
view labchick's profile
I'm going to blame it partly on my computer, I'm going to try again at work!!
view labchick's profile
That was fun! I got a 0, but I can't for the life of me find a paint color that works in my living room. I must be looking for perfect harmony.
view jacasi's profile
i got an eight! i was so determined to 'beat' the posted score of four. haha...
view verano's profile
I got a zero! So all these years of art school and working as a graphic designer have not gone to waste! It's interesting how many perfect and close to perfect scores there are amongst the people here.
view jowe's profile
I got a zero!
view RichardinLA's profile
Got an 8.
Missed a cluster of 4 in the greens and a cluster of 4 in the mauves.
view hessilou's profile
41 = thought I would do better :(
view ck_1804's profile
in my mid 50's, and scored a 3...i'm sending this to everyone! i need to close my eyes...
view maude's profile
4. i expected better, although i didn't try very hard.
we had to do similar exercises in art school.
view jenny!'s profile
11 is close enough for me!
view JessiDoe's profile
11.
view Doug's profile
Wow, I really did bad! 167 for me! I'm color blind. Mistakes in the green AND blue range.
view Chzzy's profile
0
Perfect color vision.
I am stunned and amazed. I anguish over paint and fabric choices, which I honestly thought was the result of me having trouble with color.
view JaxByDefault's profile
11
view catspajamas's profile
I'm perfect too. I've always loved color, yet I can't seem to commit to a wall color. I've kept my white walls and I just keep swapping out colorful accessories to keep from getting bored.
view trixxie's profile
JaxByDefault----perhaps that is why you anguish over things so much, you see to well, were others do not.
I got a 0 and I'm just like you are!
view poptart's profile
i'm just here to represent the above 80 contingent, with a whopping score of 87. (i have annie albers for a mother, a master's degree in art history, and what i really hope is a defunct monitor.)
view 2doorbuick's profile
0! And Jax and poptart, I think I'm in the same boat. I get so frustrated with my house because things are 'not quite right'. I thought it was my perfectionism...guess not. I'll just have to go for contrasting stuff rather than trying to always match!
view kgenesius's profile
39 - that was very tiring!
view peacelily's profile
4, all errors in the blue/teal range, which sucks, as those are my favorite colors.
view samantha9484's profile
0! Whoohoo! I agree, though, some of those colors looked awfully similar... It's crazy, you could be just one off and not have a perfect score?
view kahiko's profile
0. wow. didn't realize that my colour sense was so strong. maybe i'm making up for my partner's colourblindness?
view wc_canuck's profile
Took it on my MacBook yesterday and got a 26. (Then had to drink a beer to handle the shame.) Tried it this morning on my husband's iMac and got a 12. Evidently, there is some context dependency here - it could be screen, the ambient light, how strained one's eyes are...
Perhaps I'll keep taking it in different contexts until I get a 0.
view Lauren T.'s profile
Perfect!! :) Now, how can I apply this to the rest of my life!
view Danny & Carlos's profile
26 - and I'm an interior designer.
Time to get a new monitor :)
view spinningscreen's profile
hurray, I got 0. Does this mean that if my color combinations are off, it's not because of my eyes but because I picked out off combinations?
view cathay's profile
ZERO. Took me a LONG time to do it, though.
view ohjodi's profile
I got a zero! :o)
view Idril's profile
oh my gosh, i thought i was doing so well and i got a 32! hahah, oh well. my worst area was righ between green and blue.
view christie's profile
0. Fun, except for the resulting headache. I guess that explains why the minor color clash in my living room drives me nuts... (This was on a MacBook Pro. I bet on my awful work computer I'd have done horribly.)
view Liana's profile
12. That was fun.
view orrismb's profile
Got bored and blind after finishing the 1st line, gave up and got 438.
view Cathy27's profile
4, with some missed in the green area. What does that mean? Does that mean I'm like the Post Family?
view figs's profile
15 but wow I have a migraine now!!
view amiencc's profile
I'm not doing it, I'm a "color moron"!
view Loreta's profile
the site doesn't work -- says "internal server error, try again later" -- it's all these high (or rather, LOW) scores --they broke it!
view mschatelaine's profile
Yeah, I think it's broken. Didn't work last night or this morning.
view Spotsalots's profile
4
view kav122's profile
I got a 4!!
I am a 30 yr old female
My mistakes were in the blues and teals!
view tarynitup's profile
0!! Although I have to admit it was on my second try.
First time was a 3...
* Your score: 0
* Gender: Female
* Age range: 40-49
* Best score for your gender and age range: 0 (Me!)
view debtree's profile
An 8, and OW that hurt. I think I need to get up from the computer and do something else just to give my eyes a break.
view gswiszcza's profile
19 and I'll probably need a Lasik enhancement after that test.
view toomanycats's profile
I got a 7 but I didnt get the Hue test results range. This is all I got:
Your score: 7
Gender: Female
Age range: 30-39
Best score for your gender and age range: 0
Highest score for your gender and age range: 1476
view MuffinGal's profile
Respectable 8. 50yr old male.
view gymfly's profile
I got a 4!
I really wanted a zero, since I just painted my place lots of different colors, and had been spending endless amounts of time comparing very similar shades.
But I guess 4 is respectable! : )
view galinphilly's profile
20 a heachache.
view Esther414's profile
And apparently I can't type properly anymore either. I meant "20 plus a headache"... :s
view Esther414's profile
geez. I got a 70. I've always known I have problems with color. Just look at the way I dress :) I had problems with every color.
view Brooke328's profile
I got 50 but I'll blame my age of 61 as the reason. I also have one heck of a headache now. Oh, and the squares were far too small '-)
view Rain's profile
7, also missed in greens and blues. Had to look away from the screen a few times to keep my eyes in focus!
view gardensimple's profile
oh my god - this is the Farnsworth-Munsell Color test in digital form. As a previous Colorist (labdip matcher) and Designer, I've had to take the test with the actual color chips twice (first score as entry level colorist:12. Second score years later:2). It was sad to see other colorists score badly and have their color matching duties reassigned. Well, sad for them, relief for the factories.
view apdesigngirl's profile
i got a 0, but i'm an artist. so, it's kind of my thing. :D fun thanks!
view mariegael's profile