Do you think you have a pair of razor-sharp eyes, or are they about as blunt as a butter knife? If you want to find out once and for all, here are some fun tasks that’ll push your peepers to the limit. So, can you pick up on hidden details, or see straight through complex illusions? Let's find out how good your eyes really are!
Ishihara Test For Color Blindness
The tasks ahead involve a whole load of different colors, so it’s best if we do a quick test to make sure you’re not color blind first. Let's use a few questions from the Ishihara Test for Color Deficiency, which is designed to pick up on any color vision handicaps you might have. All you need to do is identify the numbers you can see in the circles below.
What number can you see here?
That’s a 12! Now that we know you can count, let’s move on. What number is in this circle?
You should be able to see 74. However, if you saw a 21, you may have a degree of color blindness. Let’s try another; what can you see here?
That was 45! If you didn’t see either of those, don’t panic! We’ll keep going just to be sure. So, what can you see here?
You can stop squinting now because you shouldn’t be able to see any numbers in that circle! But, if you did manage to see number 45, it’s possible that you suffer from color blindness. If you did have problems with these plates, you might want to make an appointment with your local eye doctor! Or at the very least, check the color balance of your monitor. But, assuming you passed with flying colors, let’s move on to the real test!There will be 8 different tasks, each with different stages of difficulty, ranging from easy on the eyes to superhuman sight! The first level of each stage might not seem too hard, but the further along you go the more concentration you’ll need. To pass a stage, you must be able to answer every question in it correctly. And for every stage you do pass, you’ll score one point! But if you fail just once, you don’t get that point! No pressure.
Color Count
This is where the real challenge begins! For this task, all you need to do is pick out one of the 10 colors that’s different from the rest! You may look at them for 6 seconds each. It may sound simple, but there are 4 stages which will gradually get harder and harder. Let’s start with the super easy Stage 1.
If you got 4, 6, 5, 3 and 8, give yourself a point! Below is the medium difficulty stage! Once again, you may look at them for 6 seconds each.
Did you get 1, 7, 5, 6 and 10? Then pop another point on your current score. Let’s see just how hard this next stage is!
Did you get everything right in Stage 3? The answers were 10, 9, 1, 8 and 3. If you did, give yourself a point. Now it’s time for the final, super hard stage! You’re going to want to wipe that sweat out of your eyes.
If you didn’t get a point for that last stage don’t feel too bad, you'd need superhuman peepers! The answers were 10, 7, 3, 5 and 2.
Munker Illusion
Take a look at the image below. As you can see, the balls here are 3 different colors: red, blue, and green. But one of them is an imposter!
It may look green thanks to those green lines, but that ball is actually beige! This amazing effect is called the
Munker Illusion, which occurs when your perception of one color is changed by the surrounding colors!
So, let’s find out if your sharp eyes can see straight through this illusion! We’ve hidden an odd colored ball amongst red, blue, and green ones in the images of the next three stages. Can you spot the odd ball? Let’s start off easy. You may look at each image for 5 seconds.
Did you catch all those odd balls? Then give yourself a point!
Stage 2 is going to get a little trickier. Are you ready?
If you've caught all the oddballs in this stage, give yourself another point!
Now, it’s time to tackle the final stage. Have you got your head in the game?
If you managed to clear that stage like a real baller, then award yourself another prestigious point!
Hidden Animals
In this task, you’ll have 6 seconds to work out which animals are hidden in the pictures! But don’t worry, they won’t be anything too exotic! There will be three stages, meaning there’s a total of three points up for grabs! Are your eagle-eyes ready? Let’s go!
If you managed to get all of those, then treat yourself to another point!
Up next, in stage 2, they’re going to be more difficult to spot! So, what’s lurking inside these next images?
Did you spot all the animals below? Get your score from this image.
We’re now really going to take a walk on the wild side. This time see how many animals you can spot hiding in the frame! You just need the number, but you can pat yourself on the back if you get the animal right as well! This might get tricky, so prepare yourself! Let’s go!
How did you get on? Remember to give yourself a point for each stage you cleared!
Let’s get out of this zoo and move on to the next level!
Hidden Numbers
We’re going to get mathematical now! Although we won’t make you do any boring sums. You just need to find the three numbers hidden on the screen. You must guess all the numbers in each image correctly and you may look at them for 5 seconds each. Here's stage 1.
And that’s the first stage over. Did you get a point? Check the answers:
Let’s crank up the difficulty, and dive into Stage 2.
And that’s Stage 2 complete! Give yourself a point if you got all of those right.
Let's head into the final and hardest stage.
You might have given yourself a headache trying to search through all that static! Let's check your answers:
But if you managed to score 3 points by successfully clearing each one of those stages, give yourself and A+ for effort!
Hidden Words
This next level is really simple; all you have to do is find the words that are hidden in the pictures. You may have 5 seconds for each of them. Let’s start off easy with stage 1.
Did you get them right? The words should be tree, neat, rat, book and lemon. Let’s move on to Stage 2!
The answers should be glass, house, movie, roar and night. This third stage is going to get even harder. There will be multiple words in each picture, so you’ll need to spot them all if you want that precious point. Are you ready?
Check your answers below:
If your sharp eyes managed to pick up all of the elusive words in that strenuous stage, give yourself another hard-earned point!
Ponzo Illusion
For this next level, let’s see just how well your eyes measure up! Just take a look at this image and think about which of the yellow lines looks longer.
While you might think that the top line is longer, they’re both the same length. The top line looks longer because the background pattern makes it appear further away, so it seems bigger in contrast to the one at the bottom. This is called the
Ponzo Illusion, and now that you know how it works, let's test how well you can see past it! All you have to do in the next three stages is guess if the yellow lines are different lengths to one another or whether they’re the same length. You may look at them for 5 seconds each.
Here are the answers:
Did you get one? Even if you didn’t, you can still score one in the next stage, so don’t give up.
You might have thought they looked different, but all the lines in these images are same in length:
That was more difficult than stage 1, so you can only wonder how tough stage 3 is going to be. Are you ready?
Check whether you've got them right:
Strawberry Test
Take a look at the delicious strawberry tart below!
Before you start drooling, what color do you think those strawberries are? You might expect them to be red, but this image contains no red pixels whatsoever. Those juicy red strawberries are actually grey! You experience the illusion of red because your brain, in part, processes the color of objects by using surrounding colors as a reference. Because the blue filter is the opposite of red on the color spectrum, your brain automatically sees red even where there shouldn’t be any!
Now that you know how it works, let’s test if your eyes can outsmart your belly! Coming up are some more images with strawberries that may or may not be the color you think they are. And remember, you’ll have to guess all ten of them right to get a point! Here are the first 6 of them:
Could you guess their actual colors? Here are the answers:
Let's see how you perform in detecting the colors of this next batch:
Here are their real colors:
Behind Bars
This is the last task, so let’s make it count! All you need to do is figure out what is hiding behind the bars. So, let’s start off with some hidden words to see if you can read between the lines! Are you ready?
The answers are "Be Amazed", plane, injustice, brilliant and nothing. If you got them all, treat yourself to another point. Now are you ready for stage 2? This time you’ll need to identify the picture hidden behind the bars.
If you got all of those, remember to tally up another point to your score. Here are the answers:
And now it’s time for the results! There was a grand total of 22 points you could have scored, so how well did you do? If you only got between 0 and 10 points, you may have a low score, but you’re definitely not alone! About 20% of the people that take this test can’t clear more than half of the stages. Maybe you just need to readjust your screen color settings, or, failing that, get glasses!If you scored between 10 and 15 points, then you join the 40% of people who also passed with this very respectable average. You certainly know your colors from your shapes, although you might want to pay closer attention to the details next time!Next up, with just a few points more, we have the elite-eyed 15 to 20-point category! Not much gets past you, or the other 40% of people who scored similarly to you. But it’s those tiny details that catch you off guard, so remember to double check your shoelaces before you head out!
And finally, if you scored between 20 or 22 points, you’re probably seeing through time and space right now! Of everyone who took this eye test before it hit the internet, not one single person could reach these god-tier scores. I hope you were amazed at this fun eye test. Thanks for reading!
