E blue or green? Find where blue start for your eye, then arrange colors by hue. Na about 3 minutes, free: no sign-up.
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How to understand your result
- Where your blue start: na the hue wey your answer change from "green" go "blue". Hue na the angle wey color get for color circle; we use OKLCH color space, where equal steps for hue dey look almost equally different. For our scale, green dey near 140° and blue dey near 250°.
- The three color samples: one color wey green small pass your boundary, the boundary color itself, and one wey blue small pass am. Your friend fit call the one for middle by the other name.
- Error score: how far the colors for your rows dey from their correct order. Each color score na the gap between am and the two colors beside am, minus 2, so row wey dey correct order well-well get score 0. Smaller score better.
- The ring: every color for the hue circle, each with its own color. Spike wey long pass mean say mix-up big for that hue; "most mix-ups" show the area wey get the most.
No correct or wrong answer dey for your boundary. But error score get: 0 mean say na perfect. None of them be medical result.
My blue na the same as your blue?
People dey put the line between green and blue for different places. For studies about the "unique" hues, the pure green and pure blue wey people choose dey vary plenty, so the blue wey one person see fit be green to another person [1]. Languages too dey different: one survey of 120 languages find say 68 use one word for green and blue [2]. So e fit be say your friend's boundary no be the same as your own.
Quick facts
- Color vision deficiency: about 8% of men and 0.4% of women wey get European ancestry get red-green color deficiency, and 4 to 6.5% of men wey get Chinese and Japanese ancestry [3]. This page no be test for am.
- Words and colors: Russian get different basic words for light blue and dark blue. For one small study, Russian speakers fit tell two blues apart faster when the blues dey on different sides of that line; English speakers no show that kind effect [4].
- The classic test to arrange colors: the Farnsworth–Munsell 100-hue test wey clinics dey use get 85 colored caps for 4 trays. Our part 2 take inspiration from am, but we get our own colors and fewer caps.
- Age: for that clinic test, arranging colors dey best around age 19, then e dey slowly become harder as age increase (382 people with normal color vision) [5].
- Colors wey fit confuse people: for online survey of 1,401 people about the photo called "the dress", 57% see am as blue and black, and 30% see am as white and gold [6]. Another bigger online survey find say more people see am the other way [7], so people split almost half and half.
How the test to see how you dey see color work
- Blue or green? One color go show at a time, on neutral grey. Tap Green or Blue, or press ← and →. Choose the first thing wey come your mind.
- Getting closer. Two lines of colors dey move at the same time, one start near the green side and the other near the blue side, 12 colors each. If you answer "green", that line move toward blue; if you answer "blue", e move toward green, and the steps dey get smaller every time you change your mind. Both lines meet near your boundary.
- Put colors in order. After that, you go get 4 rows of 12 colors. Every row get one fixed color for both ends; drag the colors, or tap two to change their places, until the row change smoothly. No clock dey.
All 52 colors for part 2 go round the color circle once, with about 6.9° between each hue, and the same lightness and colorfulness, so na only hue dey change. Your boundary na the 50% point of a curve wey we fit to your answers. The error score follow the rule wey the 100-hue test use.
Wetin fit affect your result?
- Your screen. Screens dey show color, brightness and settings different. Night mode, blue-light filters, "true tone" and dim screen dey shift colors toward yellow. Even the maker of the clinic 100-hue test talk say online version no fit give final result, because monitors dey different [8]. Compare results on the same screen.
- The room. Bright light or colored light around you dey change how the screen look.
- Your language. The words wey you use for colors dey shape where you put the line. Languages wey get separate names for light and dark blue, or use one name for green and blue together, dey draw different boundaries [2][4][9].
- Age and tiredness. Arranging colors dey harder as age increase [5], and tired eyes dey make colors wey close harder to arrange.
- Color vision. People wey get red-green color deficiency usually find some rows much harder. If some parts of the test feel impossible, eye doctor or optometrist fit test your color vision well.
Wetin this test fit and no fit tell you
The test to see how you dey see color show where you personally put the line between green and blue, and how well you fit arrange colors wey look almost the same on this screen. Na game wey research tasks inspire. E no be test for color blindness, e no be medical test, and e no be the Farnsworth–Munsell test itself: you no fit compare the scores with clinic standards. We no get any connection with X-Rite or Munsell.
If you think say you fit get color blindness, optometrist or eye doctor fit test you with correct plates and lighting.
Questions people dey ask
My blue na the same as your blue?
E no be always. When people choose the purest green and purest blue, their choices dey vary plenty from person to person; the blue wey one person see fit be green to another person [1]. The Helibrain test to see how you dey see color find your own boundary between green and blue, so you fit compare am with your friend on the same screen.
Turquoise na blue or green?
Turquoise and teal dey right on the line between green and blue, na why people dey disagree about them. Whether you call them blue or green depend on your eyes, your screen and your language: 68 of the 120 languages wey dem survey use one word for both green and blue [2]. The test show which side you lean toward.
This na test for color blindness?
No. The Helibrain test to see how you dey see color no dey check color blindness and e no fit diagnose anything. Tests for color blindness dey use special plates and lighting wey dem control. About 1 in 12 men get color vision deficiency [3][10]; if you think say you fit get am, see optometrist or eye doctor.
Why my result dey change for another screen?
Screens dey show colors different, and settings like night mode, blue-light filters and brightness dey shift them more [8]. Boundary wey you measure for phone with night mode on fit different from the one wey you measure for laptop. To compare fairly, use the same screen and settings every time.
This na the Farnsworth–Munsell 100 hue test?
No. Part 2 take inspiration from the Farnsworth–Munsell 100 hue test and e use the same scoring rule, but na our own colors we use, dem no plenty like that test, and dem show for screen instead of physical caps under standard light. You no fit compare our scores with clinic standards.
The Helibrain test to see how you dey see color really free?
Yes. The test and your complete result free: no sign-up, no email, no payment. Helibrain dey make money from its app, wey get free plan and plans wey you pay for; you no need the app to do the test.
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Cite dis page: Test to See How You Dey See Color. Helibrain. 2026. https://helibrain.com/pcm/color-perception-test. CC BY 4.0.
How this test works
This test has two parts. First, one color at a time appears, and you say whether it looks blue or green; the colors close in on the hue where your blue begins. Then you put four rows of colors in order, so that each row changes smoothly. You get your blue–green boundary, which has no right answer, and an error score for the ordering, where 0 is perfect. Vision labs and eye clinics have used color-sorting tasks like this since 1943.
Version 1 · Cite this test:
Helibrain (2026). Color perception test, v1. https://helibrain.com/color-perception-test/methods
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How we take make dis page: di Helibrain team write am from di studies wey dem list above, and Robert(English) (PhD student for biophysics) review am on 4 Nọvẹ́mba 2026. We dey update am wen di sources change.