40.6! I was quite terrible at lilac/purple.

42.66 I did better than I would've guessed

This is so fun! 43.7, with the note, "Genuinely unsettling accuracy. Please find a different hobby" - ha!
Perhaps tellingly, color is something that tends to stick in my mind most when I meet someone - specifically, the color they're wearing. As a kid, I would talk about "the green woman" or "the pink lady;" their colothing color becoming their identifying characteristic for referencing them in later conversation. My family inevitably had no idea who I was talking about.

Oooh fun! 46.7. I found it helpful to describe the color to myself during the countdown.

44.34—though my "feels like" score is about 20. Making you work the sliders is a fiendish way to shuffle the brain.

Did anyone else give the colors names before the countdown ended? (Mine were "computer screen aqua," "caput mortuum-ish," "friendly chartreuse," "lipstick coral," and "kinda meh traditional blue." The blue was the hardest to recreate.)

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45.58! I prefer the Photoshop-style color field picker, rather than only sliders, but I'm still stoked that I can terra cotta with the best of them.

45.2, which is says is in the top 1/4 of all players so far … which, looking at y’all’s scores, it sure seems like Kottke subscribers are punching far above their weight in this lol

44.19. Waaaaay too much fun.

(The *click* in my brain when I get the close to the color is ... pleasurable.)

Crazy thing is how sure I was that I was so close to being exactly correct, only to get the outcome of "nope not close at all". 42.45 best score but I'm not good at this.

40.24
Almost all of them I guessed as brighter than the target color. Last one was close to perfect, though.

I really appreciate 🫶 posts like these 😳
41.31 for the record; it doesn't make me interesting.

44.5...I tended to either go a little light or overcook the chroma a bit. That was quite fun!

43.06 with the "Genuinely unsettling accuracy. Please find a hobby comment." On one it claimed I was only off by a pixel, but looking at my choices side by side with the actual color I think the app was more impressed than I was.

I was diagnosed with autism last summer (at 53). Recently I've done a lot of reading about autism and art, as I am a photographer. Apparently those of us on the spectrum can perceive more colors and are better at identifying them than the neurotypical.

For those that like this game, there's an equally diabolical color sorting game on the iPhone called "I Love Hue" where you have to sort a whole grid of colored boxes into gradients.

This was definitely in my wheelhouse.

43.79. Not bad... I think? Loved it anyway

When you first posted this, they had 3 buttons- single, multiplayer, and daily. Since then the daily button has gone away. I wonder if it'll come back later? My kids keep sending the family group chats new ones to do so they are loving it.

So Fun! I suffered a severe concussion in 1991 which removed (?) my ability to do higher math and use my memory the way I used to (I had a near perfect auditory memory - made lecture classes really easy! - totally gone). I did some neurological testing years later (to help determine what exercises would help) and a couple of the results were abysmal - visual recall, in particular. I was honestly scared to try this, but I did much better than I thought I would (somewhere in the 42 range, I closed the window). I noticed I was naming them (post-it note green, the lavender of my favorite ribbed sweater, fuzzy sweatshirt teal, etc.)