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I think prosapagnosia is more common than people think. I thought I was just kinda dumb/incompetent for years before I learned it was A Thing.

Once you understand it there are quite a few coping mechanisms. I recognize people by their gait, voice, and clothing in addition to the glasses, hair etc that the author mentions.

I do think mine is somehow improving. I still scored badly but tbh I'm not really into celebrities so about half of them I either haven't heard of or I know about but have seen very seldom.

Your score ....................... 23

Average score .................. 30.87

You scored higher than zero out of every ten people who took this test: >

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> I'm not really into celebrities

I don't understand how that factors in. It said my score was 34/40 but really it was 34/35. The rest I didn't know and I selected that I didn't know them.

There was a different test for famous faces that was linked in a comment later (which had an average of 30.87). Based on your response and score you likely took the first test with the computer generated faces.

Your score ....................... 27 Average score .................. 30.87

You scored higher than two out of every ten people who took this test:

24 is good for tenth percentile, FWIW.

I do use hair, glasses, etc., but the flip side is that they are variable, whereas gait and voice are much harder to change. Good luck picking out Gary Oldman if you don't know he's in a movie; the man is a damned chameleon.

I knew most of the celebrities by name (there were a few complete whiffs and a few whose name I know but honestly have no idea what they look like - e.g., Cristiano Ronaldo). And most of the pairs looked nearly identical; in effect, my compensating technique was spotting the computer-generated image (which, based on my score, isn't all that effective).