Test your colour iq

Saturday, 13 September 2008

Doing this is strangely comforting and relaxing to me :) Am I weird? I don't know anyone who gets off on colour the way I do.

Test Your Color IQ

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24 comments

  1. Tyler Dawn13 September 2008 at 23:44

    Well, that's not bad. When I took this test at the age of 22 for work, I got a 96% (which would have been a 3 or a 4 on the test). I got a 7 this time, so I am pretty happy that my skills haven't degraded too badly in the last 17 years.

    How did you score Sue?

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  2. Sue13 September 2008 at 23:46

    Ooh, that's excellent. I've never seen this test before. I got 23, which I was really, really disappointed with, being someone who loves colour so much :) My eyes aren't so great I don't think.

    Im taking it again :)

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  3. Sue13 September 2008 at 23:57

    I got a 12 that time. Much better :)

    Wow, that was really interesting. I'm super impressed by your score, Tyler. What sort of job were you doing that required it?

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  4. Erin14 September 2008 at 02:16

    I got a 7 too, better than I expected...though one has to wonder how much error is due to imperfections in computer monitors and not lack of skill. What kind of monitor do you have, Sue? Because I would expect you to score better than me, too.

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  5. Sue14 September 2008 at 02:26

    It's a laptop, a Toshiba Satellite A100, got it set to 32 bits with an ATI Radeon Express 200M card ?? I don't know enough about these things to know whether I can blame that, or maybe my eyesight is just shot :) I probaby should be wearing glasses all the time, plus I have astigmatism. So yeah who knows?

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  6. Katherine Gunn14 September 2008 at 03:58

    Sue, the laptops screen are not as true color as regular monitors. That can definitely be part of the issue.

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  7. Tess14 September 2008 at 06:05

    Oh heavens, when I read this I thought it would be one of those fun multiple-choice things and then when I followed the link - argh, I went into total competitiveness mode.
    Having read other results, I was tempted to lie, but I won't. I scored 11, which isn't too bad, but I wanted to be PERFECT!!!
    Did I mention I was competitive...??

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  8. Mark (under construction)14 September 2008 at 08:55

    I'll do the test tomorrow I have studied for it ... been away a bit.

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  9. Barbara14 September 2008 at 09:41

    I don't get it. Sorry. How do you arrange by hue? I did what I thought they meant and created a symmetric arrangement leaving the first and last squares in place. I got a big number, but far from the max for my age and gender group. I don't get it. Clue me in.

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  10. urbanmonk14 September 2008 at 10:08

    14

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  11. Sue14 September 2008 at 10:39

    KG - maybe that's it. I'm kinda intrigued now. I might try this on a different screen and see how I go

    Tess - yeah. I went into competitiveness mode too :) Yes, I got 12, and the fact that you got 11 ... well, it makes me want to go and do it again so I can get 10 ... but then I won't be happy there either because i want to get 0. Yeah, I get the competitive thing :)

    Mork - no worries

    Barbara - yes, it's just setting them up so they go from one hue to the other. I'd be interested to see how you go if you do it again - I got a better score the second time I did it.

    Monk - were you happy with your score?

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  12. urbanmonk14 September 2008 at 11:20

    Considering colour and I have always had a very strained relationship, i was pretty happy:)

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  13. Sue14 September 2008 at 11:30

    Well, I really like your use of colour in the stuff you've been doing the last few months (although I must say, through my eyes and my (apparently) dodgy computer screen, Dead Yellow Guy looks a bit ... well, green. But I don't blame him, I s'pose, seeing he's dead :) Murdered at the hands of his evil cousin, Icpota, after The Age ditched him and his career went downhill :)

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  14. Tyler Dawn14 September 2008 at 12:11

    OK, took it again and didn't give up on the last one this time. Got a 4, and just figured out that the lights were off in the office. I will not try again to get any higher.

    I used to work in aerospace out of college and one of my side jobs was color proofing aircraft paint. Namely, taking a look at two swatches side by side and knowing in my head how much of what type of colorant to put in the batch of paint.

    The key to the test is to look at the swatches and to be able to see the differences in either the red/green pigmentation or the blue/yellow. Some people, like me, can naturally do this, but most people can train themselves to see it.

    This test is normally performed under special daylight lamp conditions, doing it on a computer monitor doesn't really do it justice, oh and generally the test is timed. I had to do it pretty fast, as I recall, and it was with actual color chips on a table, not with a computer (early 90's and all that).

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  15. ubanmonk14 September 2008 at 12:14

    Well that is partly due to the lack of brightness of the pic... also due to the fact it was painted on the back of a cornflakes packet.. ( and a cheap one at that) but no, dead yellow guy had large amounts of cadmium yellow in his mix, but yes diluted to a bit of a green by the frantic application of french Ultramarine and too much water... I dont know if any of you noticed in doing the test, but the hues changed their intensity depending on which other hue they were placed next to. Which is a fascinating fact about colour relationships:)

    Colour theory is a Biatch:)

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  16. urbanmonk14 September 2008 at 12:16

    Post modern colour theory:

    what is yellow to you, maybe green to someone else:)

    And thats ok:)

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  17. Kel14 September 2008 at 13:20

    hey sue, is it just my computer screen, or is something going on with discombobula to put the posts at the bottom of the screen, so one has to scroll down for quite awhile to see them?

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  18. Sue14 September 2008 at 17:54

    Tyler - Yeah, okay, you can stop boasting now :) Colour chips on a table? How ... weird!! How 3D and realistic and dinosaurish :D

    Monk - Heh :) Colour is always fascinating until it gets theorised to manageable death. And hey, I think the Black n Gold cornflakes packet deal is just da bomb :)

    Kel - It's something in the html of this template that goes berko when it's displayed on Internet Explorer. I will try and work out what it is at some point. It's very annoying, isn't it.

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  19. Erin15 September 2008 at 05:11

    You could try turning up the brightness on your monitor, as high as you can stand it. I did and I got a 3 this time.

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  20. Sue15 September 2008 at 11:31

    Ahhh. Yes, Erin, you were right. My monitor is turned down pretty low because it hurts my eyes otherwise. Okay - just turned it up and I got a 4 this time. Unfortunately I also have holes burnt into my retinas :)

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  21. Erin15 September 2008 at 15:23

    The things we go through to beat a stupid online test. I got a headache from it.

    But at least now you know you are good at it.

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  22. Barbara17 September 2008 at 02:03

    I tried it again after a couple cups of mocha java and at a respectable time of the day and I got a ZERO, a perfect score. I have no idea what my problem was before.

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  23. storyteller18 September 2008 at 08:50

    It speaks to ME … but I’ve always loved Georgia O’Keefe. Sorry … no time right now to take the color quiz … maybe another time (or not). Just wanted to say ‘hi’ … and forgive me for ‘lurking’ ;--)
    Hugs and blessings,

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  24. Sue18 September 2008 at 09:55

    Erin - who said it was only men who are competitive :)

    Barb - wow. Congratulations!! :)

    ST - Hi! :) You can lurk as much as you like :)

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