9xb complete an IQ test with a difference
10 unfortunate members of the 9xb team volunteered themselves to take part in an IQ test with a difference, one not to test their intelligence or parts of their personality but, to test their eyes. Roll on the Hue colour IQ test, you may start….. now!
A traditional IQ Test
An Intelligence Quotient (IQ) indicates a person’s mental abilities relative to others of approximately the same age. IQ tests can reveal your key cognizant strengths and weaknesses, but to Joe public it serves merely to brag, mock and ridicule those with a lower score.
9xb takes a Hue IQ Test
Now we don’t care about the science behind the results, we just wanted an excuse to play a game and, like school children we’ll use the results to mock those with the worst score.
The instructions
The aim of the game is simple, arrange the coloured boxes in each row in hue order, from one colour through to another, with four rows in total to complete, simple.
The results
Who’s your money on?
Wow Joanne got a near perfect score, hats off to her that’s brilliant. Paul suffers from partial colour blindness, predominantly greens and yellows, so he can be excused. One thing is for certain, everyone who participated were partially blind after taking the test, complaining of seeing the world in squares, I guess the trick is to take the test quickly.
Take the test
How good do you think you are? Take the test then comment below with your score. Let us know how long you took and how many tries you had… and be honest
Take the test here..
Today’s moral
Web designers and developers need a keen, razer-sharp eye when designing and building websites. The smallest deviation in colour and layout could render a design unprofessional, cast the wrong impression to visitors and potentially lose sales. Check your work once, twice and a third time, even get a colleague to double check it for you. Remember people remember the mistakes you make so do everything in your power to avoid them. As this test proves some people are better at looking for these mistakes than others so take personal responsibility over your own work. Quality should never come second.
13 Responses to “9xb complete an IQ test with a difference”
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Nice to see you studio folk have good eyesight and maybe that’s why Paul’s not a designer anymore
Zoe says:
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Hell. I was a web designer for 3 years!! Does anyone want to go back and check all the sites I did that are still around and make sure they’re not in purple and turquoise?
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Is that why our logo is orange and green?
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Pauls site’s were all high contrast, brilliant!
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Our logo’s orange and green? I had it down as mauve and khaki! Sorry for imposing that on you all. Thanks Gary - you see how I got around my handicap there… cunning, eh?
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heheh
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I got a 4, whoo! Maybe I should consider a career change from programmer to designer?
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Yeah I got 4 and i think i missed in about the same spot as the two best people in the results thing…why are those bluish colors the hardest?
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I got 3 at first i tought it was imposible but my mind did all the work automatically :O
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I think i get identical mresults to joanne same colors
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i got a 0, but now i have a migraine…
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I’m sure our scores have some psychological reference some how that we don’t know about, like the better the score the better at ’A’, ’B’ and ’C’ we are..
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Maybe some of us have greater attention to detail? Are more careful? Perfectionists? Or just smarter when it comes to visual stuff?
