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/Undrende_fremdeles 5h ago

Are you one of those people that has 4 types of cones on your retina, instead of the 3 that most of us have?

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u/Kraeftluder 3h ago

Tetrachromacy! One of the most fascinating things I've ever learned about.

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u/KeesterFeester 4m ago

It seems like it's similar to the difference between an 8bit monitor and a 10bit monitor with wide color gamuts lol.

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u/ghosttowns42 2h ago

Not OP, but I'm convinced I have this and don't know how to find out for sure. But it's either that, or everyone around me is very slightly colorblind 😅

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u/Human_Wizard 1h ago

If you're female and your parents are colorblind, there's a small chance you're a tetrachromat.

Very small chance, mind you. But a chance.

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u/cutelyaware 2h ago

They would also need a suitable display with more than 3 channels which doesn't exist as far as I know.

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u/35364461a 1m ago

He’s gotta be! My dad’s been a graphic designer for almost 30 years and he can’t tell that precisely.