Check out:

http://www.njagyouth.org/colortest.swf

LouisB

Have fun

good one.

It is known as the stroop-effect, when we automatically read the text instead of concentrating on the actual colour. I always let my students do this, they get very frustrated!

For me the trick was not to focus on the word but to look of a portion of the last letter in the word.

Mort Canard

Curious, I had no problems with it at all? Dutch.

I am the Master! But I read Marterius's post first.

100% on the first time but it's still a mind bender.

maybe I am color blind............?

I was above average on the first try. Then I remembered something I read about split-brain people. These are patients who have had the corpus callosum severed (a bunch of nerves that connects the two halves of their brain). I think this is done to control a particularly bad seizure disorder.

Anyway, they have one hell of a time coordinating motor function and speech with visual stimuli, because of how each function (and each eye) is wired to either half of the brain. They or their doctors learned a trick that informs both halves of the brain what the individual has decided to do. I used that trick and got 100% on the test.

H. C.

Marterius...
Can you tell me why I flinch my eyes when I am in close proximity to a very loud noise that is repeated over and over, such as a double-acting diesel-fired hammer pounding away at a bridge pile or something like that? The hammer is at a distance but not too far away, I am certain deep within my mind that it is not a threat or danger to my person, yet I flinch when it fires the driver head up and down. Any ideas or comments?

I am a retired air traffic controller, I'm already nuts, what is your point?