Do You Have a Color Vision Deficiency?

Want to find out if you have any deficiencies in your color vision? Try the the Online Color Challenge by Pantone and X-Rite. It tests your ability to discriminate among hues by making you put 88 color tiles in order along four rows.

Any mis-placement reveals a defect in your color vision. Or a lousy uncalibrated monitor. Or a defect in your ambient lighting. Or some Doritos residue on your screen. Still, it only takes a few minutes and it’s fun.

See if you can beat my score.*

If you want to test your vision even further, head over to color-blindness.com where you can take several exams including the Ishihara 38 Plates Test, the F-M 100 Hue Test, the RGB Anomaloscope, the Kobiyashi Maru, and Hogwarts O.W.L. exams.**

*Score achived with a lousy uncalibrated monitor, lit by late afternoon sunlight, and smeared with Doritos residue.

**Some of these tests cannot be passed without cheating.

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This article was last modified on July 7, 2023

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  1. Nice, my score was 0. It comes in handy if your am artist and you draw and paint stuff.

  2. I scored 0 (perfect colour vision). But I know I’m colour blind, so I’ve a feeling this test doesn’t work.

  3. I made a perfect 0 age 15-19 female
    This is the first time I have been happy with making a zero in my life

  4. Debora Crooks

    I did this test a while ago and scored a 3. I impressed myself!

  5. My score was zero.

  6. My score was 3! Age 30-39 female. My deficiency was in the green-blue section. Looks like I can ditch these glasses :)

  7. I got 8,

    36 yrd Male

  8. I scored a 10 on my lousy laptop monitor with my eyes still stinging from my morning Restasis drops. I should have re-checked on my work monitor–and maybe will later in the day–but not bad, all in all, for an old lady.

  9. 35 female, score 0 – perfect! :) Even with my crappy monitor.

  10. 24! I’m not afraid to say it. All you whippersnapper 0’s out there. Also, dirty 15″ laptop monitor. And 10pm after waking at 5am. Still …. I thought 24 was pretty good!

     

  11. Scored perfect 0 – guess I have a pretty decent monitor (and no Doritos)!

  12. Jerry Bernard

    I got an almost perfect score of 4!

    My “slight” defincies are in the yellow-green area.

    47 year old male who does color correction and photoshop compositing for a living.

  13. Jerry Bernard

    I got an almost perfect score of 4!

    My “slight” defincies are in the yellow-green area.

    47 year old male who does color correction and photoshop compositing for a living.

  14. Mary Burney

    I got a 4 this time. Scored 0 the last time I took this about a year ago.

  15. 10 and I’m a 62 year old woman. Not bad!

  16. highwingpilot

    Though my wife might disagree at times, I got a perfect score.

  17. I got 8, 30-39 yo female; and I may have had afternoon sun AND a couple of wines before completing the last exercise, so I’m very happy with the result!

  18. drdistracto

    19, Mail, got a 0 (perfect score)

    Woo!

  19. I got a 7, 28 year old male. So I guess I’ve got the age and vision leverage. I’m getting all the chicks.

  20. Got a 0 – perfect score! No wonder I was a color designer. :)

  21. 0 – perfect score!

  22. :D i have a perfect color vision

    My Score: 0

    Age range: 20-29

  23. :D i have a perfect color vision

    My Score: 0

    Age range: 20-29

  24. Results: 4 – troubled area was blue-green scale

    Other layers were perfect. :D

    26 yr old female

  25. Over 50 male. Scored 4 on my second try.

  26. perfect color vision, score 0 – age 53, pretty good for an old git (smug grin)

  27. SergioRodríguez

    My result was 4 :) i had problems in blue-green section. The others perfect it seems ^^ I’m 27 yo male

  28. 15 with same gender & age range. I skipped the Doritos tho ;)

    1. Laura Riebman

      So is a 6 for a 58 yr old female good. I know 0 is perfect but I can’t find any info to describe the scale.