Maybe I should stay away from the internet tests....

I have always been fairly bad at remembering faces. So I went to faceblind.org:

Everyone sometimes has trouble recognizing faces, and it is even more common for people to have trouble remembering other people's names. Prosopagnosia is much more severe than these everyday problems that everyone experiences. Prosopagnosics often have difficulty recognizing people that they have encountered many times. In extreme cases, prosopagnosics have trouble recognizing even those people that they spend the most time with such as their spouses and their children.

One of the telltale signs of prosopagnosia is great reliance on non-facial information such as hair, gait, clothing, voice, and other information. Prosopagnosics also sometimes have difficulty imagining the facial appearance of acquaintances. One of the most common complaints of prosopagnosics is that they have trouble following the plot of television shows and movies, because they cannot keep track of the identity of the characters.

Huh. The previous paragraph somewhat applies to me....

I went here and took the "Famous Faces Test"

If we exclude the ones you were unfamiliar with, you got 48% correct.

On our previous version of this test, the average person with normal face recognition was able to recognize about 85% of the faces they were familiar with. If you missed more than half of the faces you were familiar with, this may indicate face recognition difficulties.

Soon I shall change into dressier clothes as tonight is the First Seder, and we are going to my MIL's house for dinner.

Happy Seder/Passover!

(not sure if that's appropriate or not...)

I took the Famous Faces test:

Out of 30 faces, you correctly identified 28. You were familiar with 30 of the people in this test.

If we exclude the ones you were unfamiliar with, you got 93% correct.

On our previous version of this test, the average person with normal face recognition was able to recognize about 85% of the faces they were familiar with. If you missed more than half of the faces you were familiar with, this may indicate face recognition difficulties.

I missed Tony Blair and Gandhi. I know who they are and what they look like.

I just took the unfamiliar faces test, too.

Out of 20 target faces (ones you studied in the first part of this test), you correctly identified 20.

Out of 30 nontarget faces (ones that didn't study in the first part of this test), you correctly responded that you had not seen 22 of them.

Overall, you got 84% correct

The average person with normal face recognition scores about 85% on this test. If you scored less than 75% on this test, this may indicate face recognition difficulties.

That one was much harder.

The only one I missed was Tony Blair. I thought it was Donny Osmond !!!!

They were mostly really easy for me; I can't imagine having face blindness. It would be so interesting to live in someone else's braaaaaaains for a while.

I kicked ass on the famous faces one (although I had semi-cheated by reading Cindy's whitefont, but I think I would have gotten them anyway), but sucked on the new faces one. But I was distracted, just like they told me not to be!

Cindy, we got the same score. I missed Blair and DeNiro.

If I had read my white font, I would have gotten them all. I guessed Sadat for Gandhi, but I knew it was wrong when I was guessing it. With Blair, I didn't have a blessed clue.

flea, that's so funny that you thought Blair was Donny Osmond! Ha.

Plei, did you make a guess for either of them?

Jesse, did you try the unfamiliar faces one, yet? That was much harder. Ben was talking to me and setting up something on TiVo while I was doing it, so I was a little distracted, but really it was just hard. They all looked the same after a while. The black and white photos made it worse, and some of the photos looked manipulated.

This is fucking awesome: Alanis Morrisette doing "My Humps" [link]

Heh. Plei's whitefont is mine.

Did everyone miss Blair ? Because I did, too. Also Jerry Seinfeld, but that was because the picture seemed distorted, and/or gave bloaty-face effect.