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		noncoml on June 17, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: What's My Color IQ? Or the settings of the monitor. I did it in "reader" mode and got a score of 19 struggling as a few boxes looked the same. Switched to "photo" mode and got a score of 0 easily.

exikyut on June 17, 2018 | [–]

Anecdata: I too got a score of 0 on my first try (having never seen a test like this before) using the builtin LCD on my old ThinkPad X61.

I may have leaned around a little to take advantage of the slight vertical color shifting in this particular LCD but that was about it.

snvzz on June 17, 2018 | [–]

Wide gamut ips. 0 on first attempt.

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