This seems to be doing the rounds today.
Accepting that there are variables, many noted in the about section, it is a nice example about how people are different and change due to the variables.
It’s a bit if fun, I score 174 to 180 depending on lights on/off, glasses on/off, phone or tablet. Five people range 169 to 181.
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Interesting.
I’d say some of these are equivocal especially as noted with ambient lighting and in all likelihood without properly calibrated monitors, especially those incapable of showing the full gamut of a colour space properly.
Equally, many of our perceptions will have been learned when we were younger such that we may gravitate to describing a colour more in relation to one primary colour or another.
Quite likely even if not colour blind we all have varying numbers of cones compared to others and in each eye ourselves such that they will not be in identical proportions.
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The thing is all colour is perception. Various civilisations around the world in history have perceived colour differently. Ancient Greeks did not really have a word for what in English is called blue.
Celtic people Like those in Brittany, Cornwall and Wales saw the world differently and did not originally have a word for green. So for instance the Welsh word for Grass is Glaswellt which a literal translation means “blue straw” The Celts just saw Green as being at one end of the Blue spectrum.
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Your boundary is at hue 174, just like the population median. You’re a true neutral.
Which is a surprise to me.
Sadly reminded of this.
At least it’s not green and purple which has consequences 
I think Claudia Christian actually fractured something at the end of this scene.
Can’t believe this is over 30 years ago and most of the cast are dead.
The ridiculous thing is saying “for you turquiose is green”: Avpctually for me turquiose is turquise, though if I have to choose between it being green (bluish green) or blue (greenish blue) I would indeed have said it is more green than blue.
My sister in law has a Kia Picanto car that she insists is green, but to me is gold.
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Colour blindness is mostly about being able to distinguish colours next to other colours. A red bird in a green Bush does not stand out at all to me as I’m red green colour blind. I think this test isn’t different for a colour blind person. I scored 178.
Apparently my turquoise is green which seems an entirely useless piece of knowledge 
That said I do find what I call colours does often vary from the “norm”.
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- Nice little test.
- Mostly green with a bit of blue.
Yes it is! Just grainy or stripey 
I cannot reliably complete this test. 3 or 4 colours in, I get a colour that appears exactly midway between blue and green, so I cannot describe it as one or the other.
If I make up an answer to that colour, I get different end results depending on which way I swing.
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A bit like being in the opticians, is the red or green clearer etc - answer “not sure, too close”.
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I’ve often wondered if some of those tests are bull and the ‘swap’ makes no difference in order to weed out a bit of client subjectivity.
Looking at this graph, I would like to nudge the dotted line a couple of millimetres to the right to hit the centre spot between the two colours.
I am red/green/yellow/blue colour blind.
Colourblindness varies hugely in how and when it presents. Light is a huge variable. What I see as green in one set of lighting conditions I may see as entirely different when the light changes.
Once came home really pleased with a new jacket which was the same style as one I owned and, I thought, an entirely different colour. Er, no, it wasn’t. Nothing to do with what it was next to. Just the lighting.
Watching my team play in red on some green stuff almost doubles in intensity if I use my peaked cap to keep the floodlights out of my vision.
You do all know the olive range was green don’t you?
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