Face Blindness/ (prosopagnosia) Test

[kriss72]

I can have a hard time if I see someone out of context, names are difficult, even in context.

 

[Kavigant]

I guess I did pretty well:

On the UNSW Face Memory Test you scored 29 out of 40
On the UNSW Face Sorting Test you scored 55 out of 80
Your overall score on the UNSW Face Test was 70%

So I scored in the top 10%


I wonder whether my score would be worse if you tested me on those same faces in 2 or 3 days...

 

[Aneka]

I'm sorry seems like I have talked about this a while ago I didn't notice the double post.

Regardless I really wish I could turn this off... In groups it takes me weeks to get to know people and recognize them.

 

[Aneka]

I guess I did pretty well:

On the UNSW Face Memory Test you scored 29 out of 40
On the UNSW Face Sorting Test you scored 55 out of 80
Your overall score on the UNSW Face Test was 70%

So I scored in the top 10%


I wonder whether my score would be worse if you tested me on those same faces in 2 or 3 days...

Do you have a link for the test?

 

[tree]

Do you have a link for the test?

https://facetest.psy.unsw.edu.au/

It's also in the first post of this thread.

 

[vergil96]

On the UNSW Face Memory Test you scored 26 out of 40.
On the UNSW Face Sorting Test you scored 43 out of 80.

Your overall score on the UNSW Face Test was 57%.
For your information, based on the first 6300 participants on the UNSW Face Test:
Top 5% scored 72% and above
Top 10% scored 69% and above
Top 25% scored 65% and above
Top 50% scored 61% and above
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I thought I got worse results, honestly, I felt clueless most of the time, it's not how I recognize people and I lacked the details I need to recognize someone, I don't look at faces only and don't pay that much attention to them, and I'm really bad at distinguishing people who have similar colour "palette", hair, clothes etc.

 

[WildCat]

There was an older thread that linked to this exact same test:

https://www.autismforums.com/threads/a-fun-test-about-face-recognition-abilities.38637/
Well, I did it again and got a score of 60%. A lot of the test images were too blurry or altered from the target images, which made sorting out facial features pretty difficult. The test informs you that the images will be changed, but it seems like they made it hard on purpose to weed out so-called "super recognizers" that this test is designed for.

I do better in reality than this test is suggesting. Faces don't get stored as super-pixelated images in my mind, so I'm not concerned about it at all.

 

[Ronald Zeeman]

My wife and I went to a family reunion once my wife had her long blonde hair styled was breaking on her very sensitive to various chemicals like tints her own mother did not recognize her. Change her hair change her look once she curled her hair as a joke and her friends did not recognize her.

 

[Levitat0r]

How often do you accidentally greet a new acquaintance twice, and then realize they're wearing the same clothes as before, so they're the same person? Faces do eventually sink in, but people having over nine thousand friends in their circle are more skilled at this.

 

[Levitat0r]

How often do you accidentally greet a new acquaintance twice, and then realize they're wearing the same clothes as before, so they're the same person? Faces do eventually sink in, but people having over nine thousand friends in their circle are more skilled at this.

Just tried this test and passed it, but I thought it was interesting because I caught myself doing the above just last night. I always wonder what it is that people can't stand about me, but this test says this particular issue ain't the problem.

https://openpsychometrics.org/tests/EBFMT/

 

[FayetheAspie]

I recognize people that I have been around alot but I have had some issues of this sort, especially recognizing customers after only brief encounters when I had my retail job.

 

[jsilver256]

I took this test and got 61%, but I think it is somewhat flawed in the sense that I think random odds would get you 50%. So if you recognize no faces, you get 50% automatically. Then, if you select "yes" for faces you're only absolutely sure on, you are likely to raise your score significantly, even if you recognize only 1 out of 10 faces.

To that end, I'm surprised 61% is the baseline for top 50% of participants (my score was 61%).

 

[UFO]

Same recognition problem here. It takes couple times to meet and interact with a person before I start to recognize him/her (or connect their names with their faces). And even then biggest clues are hairdo, clothing, rough details (is face shaped oval or rectangle), behavior and similar things, rather than fine details that people use to recognize faces even if their carrier is shaved bald.

But what I really wonder, is that in movies I recognize people pretty easily. Like: "Hey, I know that guy! He had a ten second mute role at movie XYZ as thug number two in that scene where protagonist got mugged."

Must be that I have little interest in people in real life, and I take a very little time observing their faces while doing my best to interact with them in some sensible manner. But movies are my purpose to live, so I pay very careful attention to them, and thus observe actors very carefully (it is also easier to look at their eyes). Every day people are random encounters that interrupt my other things, and my head can't tell which one of them are important. But with movies I do know that everything I see is worth of concentration.

 

[UFO]

My score:
Face Memory Test - 24/40
Face Sorting Test - 36/80
Overall score 50%

Faces were shown too little time. Faces didn't look even remotely familiar, I just acted by hunch because if I would have wanted to answer only with 50/50 or better certainty, it would have been a series of "no" and all pictures sorted to left. In sorting test, I couple time just assumed that three similar looking faces were shown me in the first place, so I moved them to right - while not being sure about it at all (thought I assume that test was prepared for that and was actually using picture sets that does not match the reference face)

Just tried this test and passed it, but I thought it was interesting because I caught myself doing the above just last night. I always wonder what it is that people can't stand about me, but this test says this particular issue ain't the problem.

https://openpsychometrics.org/tests/EBFMT/

From this test I got: You got 60 of 75 questions correct. The average score is 63.7. Your score is higher than 16.33% of other people who take this test.

I took my time to memorize faces so test took about 15 minutes vs their promised 2-5 minutes. In this test I would have included some time limit