Are you a super recogniser? Here's a test.

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10 but my son was talking to me so I was distracted it was fun though !

I'm generally good with recognising faces but I didn't do too well on the test.

just so folks realize super recognizers (those who are validated through additional testing) have scored 10s as well, although they will often score higher. This is just a preliminary test. If you get a chance do the follow up ones. They're pretty interesting as well. I did really well on some, and absolutely horrible on one. Pretty interesting split.

I thought that I got them all correct, but alas, I only scored 8.

If somebody that I know suddenly turns up wearing a cycling helmet ( for example ), when I've never seen them wearing one before, I don't recognise them.

It took me months to work out that the man that kept riding past me, and saying hello, was my former work colleague, Martin.

i remember once when i was little (actually i don't remember it myself, it's just a story that my family likes to tell), my father shaved his beard for the first time in ages. apparently i was terribly afraid of him when i saw him, and i cried like there's no tomorrow

i wonder if that's normal. i suppose i did recognize him but i felt like "something was wrong"

I also scored an 8/14 - I think that is because I tend to avoid looking at people's faces.

Greetings. I did the test and scored 6/14. I am considered a visual learner, but have a learning disability in memory so that could be part of it. One of the types of memory issues I have is immediately visual memory, which is what this test is about basically. When I did a similar test for my official assessment (there were both male and females, and the hair was removed on all the pictures), I scored in the 1st percentile. I wonder if this means I have prosopagnosia or if it just my immediate visual memory problem?

"You scored 11 out of 14."

I've had problems recognizing people, in-person----especially if they're not in the place, I know them (i.e., if I know them in an office, I won't recognize them at a fair).

I've also seen my aunt, and another time, one of my sisters, far-away, in a store, and thought: "Hmmm, that person looks, sort-of, familiar"; but, not realizing they were my own kin.

I also had a Voc Rehab counselor that every single time I saw him, IN HIS OFFICE, I thought: "I don't remember him looking like that".

Yes, if I fixate on that.

No, if I am hungry or there is a lawnmower running.

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I got a 14 out of 14. I think the reason why I did well is because I've had this weird fixation on faces when I'm giving eye contact. I don't just look at eyes, I look at different parts of people's faces that make theirs unique.

Now if you asked me to describe their face, THAT'S where I would have a problem.

I did the further testing, which took so long I was getting extremely agitated haha. But here are my scores for the first four tests:

36 out of 40 on the Mooney's test
72 out of 102 on the Cambridge Face Memory Test
38 out of 40 on the Guitar Recognition test
38 out of 40 on the Glasgow face Matching test

I won't give my score for the fifth test as it would give away the answer.

The feedback I received said the scores I got suggest I am a super recogniser but further testing would be needed to confirm.