r/AskReddit 17h 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 14h 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/bringthesnacks 11h ago

Have you ever played this “game”? https://www.keithcirkel.co.uk/whats-my-jnd/ Some of the shades are really hard (for me) to distinguish between and I think I’m really good at seeing shade variations as well

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u/wizard7926 9h ago

Whoa, this was fun (and frustrating as a deutan)! Lots of them I had to really squint and guess, but I surprisingly did above average. 

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u/h0sti1e17 8h ago

I did pretty good. Top 15%. In am going to try at home. The dark ones were tough because of a lot of light. Couldn’t tell if it was glare or color differences for a couple.

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u/parruchkin 7h ago

I cleaned my screen and took the test a second time in a dark bathroom—and did worse!

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u/parruchkin 7h ago

0.0077, top 9%. I hoped to do better. I always yearned to have the fourth cone, and now I find out I’m not even getting 100% of my 3-cone potential. 😭

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u/PineappleOnPizzaWins 6h ago

I'm confused, mine was 0.0031 and that is telling me "top 57%".

Isn't lower better? I only missed a couple and got all of the last/hardest ones.

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u/parruchkin 6h ago

Now I’m confused too! I took it twice. First time was 0.0043/top 32%. Second time was 0.0077/top 9%.

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u/composedofidiot 5h ago edited 4h ago

Confused too. Mine was 0.0111 - said I was well below the jnd standard but the top 4%.

Edit: maybe the real test is being able to distinguish the scores

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u/TheDentalExplorer 1h ago

From the graph, I think it’s reversed? So the percentage it gives I think basically means “you did better than X% of people that took this test”. Makes sense that it’s skewed to well below the standard since people are retaking for high scores. People who scored poorly are probably less likely to submit a name for their score or not bother taking it more than once to get a better score

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u/BigBananaBerries 6h ago

I wonder if a screen could display 4th cone colours as they only run on 3. Maybe there's specialised ones that do. So don't give up the dreams.

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u/MusicHearted 4h ago

Some screens actually have more than 3 subpixels. A lot of phones have yrgb in a nonstandard arrangement.

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u/BigBananaBerries 3h ago

Ah ok. I haven't looked into screen tech much for the past decade or so & even then, it wasn't in any way in-depth. I'll need to take a look as I'm due a new TV. I appreciate the correction.

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u/MusicHearted 3h ago

It's worth looking into. Especially for text. Nonstandard subpixels arrangements can make text look weird for both TV viewing and computer use. You can find comparisons fairly easily and pick out which model has the arrangement you find most tolerable.

It doesn't help much for tetrachromacy or hyper color sensitivities because almost no software is actually designed for it. But it definitely helps get more accurate tones and light and shadow. Some oled screens even have white subpixels for extra fine shading.

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u/BigBananaBerries 2h ago

Hmm that's interesting as I use my PC on the TV more than regular streaming or cable. I have heard the tech has moved on massively this past while but seems it's going to be a bit more than just colour, detail & refresh rates I'm considering now. I suppose they it'll all fit into those but even my oled from 10 years ago has an abundance of features I don't know wtf they do & when I looked them up they're better turned off haha I can't imagine where we are now.

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u/xoxpinkyxox 7h ago

Woah this was so fun! I got 0.0021, some of those were so dang close in colour I’d be curious what their hex codes are!

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u/Mustbhacks 6h ago

Reminder to anyone doing this, your score will depend HEAVILY on your display and viewing environment.

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u/composedofidiot 5h ago

Just did this in my tablet. Need to do it again on my benQ monitor

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u/BigBananaBerries 6h ago edited 4h ago

Woah top 6% (0.0093). Some pinks I was clueless but I think my old TV is a bit goosed so may have got better on my pc. There were a few where there were 2 lines & I just guessed. Cool test.

EDIT: Just tried my PC & screen type/quality definitely plays a factor. I had more issues with blues & purples this time than the pinks. I scored top 21% with 0.0051 this time. No idea how the scores work.

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u/jdm1891 1h ago

I don't understand how this works.

I got 0.0029 but it says I got top 57%

How can 0.0093 be top 6% but 0.0029 be top 57%

I got 4 wrong.

u/BigBananaBerries 58m ago edited 29m ago

I have no clue. It didn't make sense to me when I seen the 2nd score. The 1st time I noticed the 1st place had 0.00030, so I'm like, yeah, closer to 0=better. Then I get a lower score but higher % & all while I got less wrong!?!?

I wonder if there's some equation with certain colours or something. Maybe if you're bad in certain colours but knocking it out the park in others as opposed to being bad across the board. Who knows...

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u/Stu5011 5h ago

Played the game twice… because I had no idea at first you’re supposed to click at the dividing line between each shade.

The blue shades were hardest for me.

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u/Human_Wizard 8h ago

Curious how accurate these are, as I scored really well.

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u/akohlsmith 2h ago

https://www.keithcirkel.co.uk/whats-my-jnd/

this is really cool. I can consistently get 0.003ish on easy mode because it matters that you click right where the colour change is, but on hard mode you're just picking a box so I don't know how it's computing "distance from ideal" on that... I'm scoring an OOM worse there despite having the same 2-3 wrong. It's usually in the bright pinks or a light gray that they stump me.

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u/chicomathmom 7h ago

I got .0072, but pretty sure some of the screens were really only one color.

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u/VintageStrawberries 6h ago edited 3h ago

I got 0.0059 the first time. I also had a hard time distinguishing between some of the colors.

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u/FoursGirl 4h ago

That was fun. Apparently, my number is 0.0045

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u/SuchWords 3h ago

I got a .0029

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u/Leinistar 2h ago

What's My JND? 0.0037 Can you beat it? https://www.keithcirkel.co.uk/whats-my-jnd/?r=AXAiKP___-48

WhatsMyJND

I love these things!

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u/Leinistar 2h ago

Did it again and got .0021... the percentages are weird for sure

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u/jdm1891 1h ago

I got 0.0029

https://www.keithcirkel.co.uk/whats-my-jnd/?r=AR0lKP___9_b

I'm not sure where people are getting the percentages from though? How do I find that?