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What's your score on the Cambridge Face Memory Test? https://www.bbk.ac.uk/psychology/psychologyexperiments/experiments/facememorytest/startup.php

I got just 56% and the difficulty spike between the first and the second parts was insane to me, I went from "I guess I'm not face blind" to "I better not be asked to pick one of the six perps out of a lineup" in a second.

Scored 82%. Kinda gave up at the last stage, got annoyed by the distortions.

I scored 64. This is such a crazy way to test face blindness. Once it got to the pixelated faces I did not recognize any of the faces. I have done other face blindness tests online in the past which have been a bit easier to me but I scored about the same in relation to the test's "average." I also know that I am significantly more face blind toward women than men: when I am meeting a bunch of new people in a new class, for example, it takes me a really long time to memorize the names of females especially. I do think I am relatively face blind though, recently I made the mistake of introducing myself to someone I had just met 5 minutes prior (granted it was in an overwhelming social situation where I'm usually anxious, but my friend and the person I did this to were both a bit annoyed with me.)

96%, and I'm actually surprised because in real life I hardly remember the faces of anyone I don't meet frequently (I actually even struggle to pick out prominent public figures often, who I remember far more by their names and policies than I do their faces). In the vast majority of contexts the specific way somebody's face looks is probably the attribute of theirs I care the least about, and I suppose I just don't bother to commit it to long-term memory. In practice I store people as an abstract set of traits and positions in much the same way I do concepts.

I'll finish it in the morning, felt like I have an unfair advantage - or maybe disadvantage - from having more exposure to British physiognomy. There's one guy who looks exactly like a hybrid of Nick Land and Lord Miles, which got me laughing too hard to keep going.

I was flying through 'til the end. Somehow ended up with a 93%.

I was sweating bullets by the end of the Norf FC Identification Quiz.

I got 76% which is remarkable because I feel like I have mild face blindness and was practically guessing for two thirds of the time.

90% for me. Honestly thought the last part in particular was incredibly difficult, I'm shocked 80% is the average given how hard it seems to be.

Decided to use nicknames for the faces to improve familiarity, got 90%.

79%. The last part was ridiculous.

79%. Got pretty hard there at the end.

I got 83%, but yeah the spike in difficulty for that last part was unreal. I swear some of those where just pixelated 3D shapes on some gradient where it was all the same face in increasing levels of gaussian noise. Reminds me of looking at diffusion model outputs.

My father has been claiming he's face blind for a year now, time to put this in the family chat and find out how much.

I meant the spike between the first and the second parts. Pick one out of three vs pick one out of six out of three.

Several of the faces have very clear distinct features that were hard to miss for me. The pudgy face was easy to remember, but slightly double chin face? Much harder depending on the angle. The 1st face looks like a co-worker's side profile. Cheekbones guy was very distinct by how sharp his face was. It was the guy with the fat(?)Fuzz(?) right besides his nose that I kept fucking up.

I got 83%, but yeah the spike in difficulty for that last part was unreal. I swear some of those where just pixelated 3D shapes on some gradient where it was all the same face in increasing levels of gaussian noise.

Same results, and I agree. Some of those by the end were just blobs with almost no identifying features.

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