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Show HN: How good is your color vision? Find out in my new game

by vidzert on 2/2/25, 12:03 AM with 41 comments

• by sprobertson on 2/3/25, 3:33 AM

  I got some confetti after an unknown number of clicks, but this doesn't answer the question of "how good is my color vision"

• by A_D_E_P_T on 2/2/25, 12:23 AM

  It would be nice to see:

  How many questions there are in total. For e.g., question 1/25 leads to 2/25, etc.

  How many were answered correctly. (There are a couple that I'm not sure if I got wrong or was lucky in guessing.)

  How one's score compares to the baseline average. (Not to other players, because other players could be re-taking the test many times or cheating. Take 25 random people, have them play the game once with no training or coaching, and use that as the baseline.)

• by Night_Thastus on 2/5/25, 8:19 PM

  (And how good is the color reproduction of your monitor)

  If you look at this on a TN screen it's going to be a lot different than something like a nice OLED. (Not that OLED doesn't have issues, but colors are great on them)

  And if you're in sRGB mode or some kind of extended color space. And how the OS is configured.

• by JoeAltmaier on 2/2/25, 3:29 AM

  So I completed it. Did I do well? No metric? Confused.

• by zacharycohn on 2/5/25, 8:19 PM

  It's fun! I'd love to see a "final score" - both number correct/total number, as well as the time elapsed.

• by al_borland on 2/2/25, 4:24 AM

  I got the confetti at the end, what did I find out?

  There were 2 I had to just start hitting squares until I got it right, and one of those I did notice the different one once I started tapping, I probably could have spotted it if I was more intentional. This seemed significantly easier than the standard Ishihara tests for me, which makes me question how well it works to judge color vision. I’m red/green color blind and the Ishihara test usually have me skipping a significant number, because I don’t see anything… to the point doctors bring out a basic red, yellow, green cards to make sure I can see traffic lights.

• by ftkftk on 2/5/25, 9:05 PM

  Feedback: - At end of game show statistics correct/incorrect

  - At the end of game show which particular color weaknesses were identified

  - Show progress meter (1 of 20)

  - I have a red/green weakness and I expected to run into issues. One of the greens was hard to differentiate but I still got it right. I expected it to be harder. Perhaps look up exact pallets for different color perception issues and use those.

• by anenefan on 2/2/25, 1:31 AM

  Interesting tool.

  It needs a couple of options.

  One button option should indicative the person is unable to see any difference, and move on, a second button option should be the box they indicated they were sure is a different colour was not right, and move on. Additionally the tool should map the position of the box when they were sure but were wrong, and keep a record as the person works though the game, just in case their screen is not perfect. Perhaps even come back to the same colour scheme but put the different colour in a different part of the screen.

  It shouldn't be forgotten that people actually tune into slightly different colours given some time - fruit and vegetable graders who visually inspect, and those who are working hard to purchase the just right fruit and vegs, find given time and practice, they'll slowly learn to perceive the very minor differences in certain shades or hues.

  Edit twice, a couple mins later and another couple for additional clarification.

• by ConspiracyFact on 2/2/25, 12:14 AM

  Neat, but it doesn’t answer the question. It would be nice to see how well you scored compared to others.

• by matcha-video on 2/5/25, 8:46 PM

  Why do I need audio for a game about colors? I had to read the comments here to figure out why there was no score or indication of right / wrong

• by drawkward on 2/5/25, 8:22 PM

  A web chart (https://blog.zohowebstatic.com/sites/zblogs/images/analytics...) that shows your % score around a color wheel would be very cool

• by dave333 on 2/6/25, 12:46 AM

  Had no trouble with these except for the three or so panels of bright green which were almost impossible to distinguish. I got the confetti in the end but wasn't paying attention to beeps so not sure if I got any of the bright greens right.

• by aeonik on 2/5/25, 11:05 PM

  I'd like a progressive or training mode.

  I'd also like the hex codes and name of the color to pop up somewhere, maybe part of the training mode?

  I would love to use this app to practice my color name recognition, not just seeing if I can differentiate them.

• by jmclnx on 2/5/25, 7:38 PM

  As someone who has been offered similar buy-outs, the one presented here is a poor deal. I would not have taken that one unless I already had a job waiting for me.

• by kittikitti on 2/5/25, 10:24 PM

  I'm assuming I did well since I finished it in under 30 seconds. Then again, I trained myself to notice even a difference of 1 in a channel for a RGB pixel.

• by antisthenes on 2/5/25, 9:10 PM

  Are any of them supposed to be hard? I think only the last 2 were even remotely challenging.

• by ctrlp on 2/5/25, 8:21 PM

  It doesn't tell you how you did. Just a bunch of confetti at the end.

• by Euphorbium on 2/5/25, 8:19 PM

  I got all correct but had to stop and think for the green ones.