Perfect zero. Calibrated NEC 2070NX (I agree, I don't think the calibration should matter generally), 58 year old eyes, late at night and tired. Room pretty dark.
This took me a LONG time to get them all right. I did not time it but maybe close to 30 min.
After I got them all where I thought they were correct I changed them back and forth one at a time to make sure I had the best selection. Changed a few. Looks like my method helped.
Interestingly enough, I made this test with three different displays and got three different results: 4, 11 and 4. The problematic areas, however, were not overlapping at all. "I" made mistakes in different colors with each monitor. Thus, I am actually lead to believe that a person with accurate color vision can be better than an ordinary monitor. Hence, this is more a test of monitors than people.
Now I understand why they sell special (and expensive) monitors to people who work with colors professionally!
Pulled out a 4 with an uncalibrated dell laptop lcd with no calibration so I'm feeling pretty good I guess I'll have to try it again tonight at home on my calibrated monitor and see what I can get.
Scored 19 on an uncalibrated LCD monitor and I got bored and quit before I really believed they were all correct. The ranges offered on the poll are way too broad - should have been zero - 2-10 11-20 21-40 41-60 61-up
IMHO, I don't think monitor calibration has much to do with one's results at this test. Calibration tunes your monitor to a standard so that you have accuracy with respect to other devices. But this test is for one's perception of colors relative to others, side by side on one device, your screen. Assuming your monitor is at least roughly calibrated, ie. reds look red, not green, and assuming it can represent fine differences of color, then the test should be reliable, even if you are not calibrated to match other devices. It's a subtle quibble, but that's who I am.
I got a 4. (Samsung SyncMaster 170MP, and as it happens, it's calibrated w/ eyeone display2)
7 for me done quickly in middle of the night as I couldn't sleep. Will try again tomorrow under different lighting. Eizo monitor with calibration 8 months ago.
Roy Pertchik wrote:
IMHO, I don't think monitor calibration has much to do with one's results at this test. [...] But this test is for one's perception of colors relative to others, side by side on one device, your screen.
Roy, I think your reasoning here is pretty good, but it misses one point that is heavily dependent on the monitor and not on the person... the gamut of the monitor. I have two displays -- the main one built into the iMac, and a second display, a cheap 3 year-old Samsung. Despite scoring a 4 in a quick attempt on the iMac display, followed by a 0 when I took a little more time (about 10 minutes) on the same display, I cannot score better than a 12 on the Samsung display. It just does not provide enough color differentiation in the greens to distinguish some of them from each other. If I move the window back over onto the iMac monitor, I can then sort it all out without much trouble.
7 on this uncalibrated cheapo monitor while not trying overly hard. I think I might start doing my photo editing on this computer. I can't wait to see how poorly my aging dim laptop monitor(where I currently do my editing) does.
