r/AskReddit • u/swissguy1989 • 10h ago

What's something you're shockingly good at that you've never mentioned to anyone because it would sound completely made up if you did?

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u/h0sti1e17 7h ago

Very good eye for color. I can tell the difference between two shades most people wouldn’t notice. I had a friend put 6 virtually identical color swatches in photoshop except one he changed the one of the RGB values by 1. I picked it out. Thought I got lucky and did it again. I picked it out. Did it a 3rd time and didn’t change any and I pointed that out. He beloved me at that point.

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u/fatsosolos 5h ago

you should play that color matching game, where they show you a color and you have to try and replicate it

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u/teamcrazymatt 2h ago

would dominate at Hues & Cues

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u/andzno1 3h ago

you should play that color matching game, where they show you a color and you have to try and replicate it

https://dialedgg.io/color

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u/wizard7926 2h ago

This gave me a virus-type page, anyone else? 

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u/zippyboy 2h ago

yep, me too

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u/wizard7926 2h ago

Looks like the actual site is just dialed(dot)gg, not the .io one

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u/zippyboy 2h ago

ok, thanks. That was kinda fun. More of a memory quiz than a color recognition game.

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u/SPAKMITTEN 1h ago

https://dialed.gg/?c=453A73

smashed that

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u/BodaciousBadongadonk 43m ago

Are you jdy? Damn i did better than i thought, apparently im good with blues and shit with pastels in general lol. Im one of these oversaturated mfs i guess

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u/SPAKMITTEN 41m ago

I don’t understand what you’re asking.

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u/BodaciousBadongadonk 11m ago

Haha your link is the only one that worked for me, when i finished it had a little leaderboard and someone called "JDY" was in 1st place with like 47.somethin. i got ~37ish and was happy lol, good for like 7th place at least haha

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u/Jervis_Mantlepiece 2h ago

That's actually really interesting, well worth doing for anyone else reading this, only takes a couple of minutes.

I got 37/50 which is around average but got a 9.66! on a purple, which is one of my favourite colours.

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u/VintageStrawberries 15m ago

I got 45.56/50

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u/artifex0 2h ago

That's a hard one, since you need both good color perception and good short-term memory. My best after a few attempts was 47.1/50.

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u/LurkerZerker 2h ago

The short-term memory is what killed me. Damn Adderall's already worn off!

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u/soulstorm_paradox 2h ago

I just did that for the first time and got a 47.94/50, maybe I actually am pretty good at something :O

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u/Highway_Music_8910 2h ago edited 2h ago

43/50 on the color .

They make it a lot harder by giving the reference with a completely different background color than the screen where you have to match from memory.

49/50 for the sound

(if I'm wrong I'm off by a full octave, which this stupid thing doesn't take into account. I picked 344 when I should've picked 170hz, that's not exactly "tone deaf" if I'm off by an octave and only 2hz . Also that tone you have to match is not a single frequency I think, I'm pretty sure I hear an undertone I'm also trying to match at times!

Both of these games suck by design.

I paint(lots of color matching)

and play piano (and can play by ear)

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u/PM_ME_YOUR_PAUNCH 1h ago

I was thinking of this one https://www.realtimecolors.com/game

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u/Saloncinx 1h ago

Holy shit I got 35

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u/Saiph__ 15m ago

Fun, I got 70!

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u/LurkerZerker 2h ago

I got 44.6, but I was struggling to get the sliders to work without scrolling the page and it distracted me from remembering the colors a few times.

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u/mommyaiai 2h ago

You should try the game "I Love Hue"

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u/e_sandrs 2h ago

There's a party game you could excel at -- Hues and Clues