On a scale of 1 to 10, how good are you at face recognition?

Somewhere in the middle. Maybe a 6. I don’t have face blindness for sure but I will sometimes not recognize people if they are out of their context or from the past. People always seem to recognize me – even if it’s from my childhood.

Face blind people don’t even recognize their own kids!

Mine is about a nine, and I don’t recognize anyone in this thread. :p

Actually, I watch a lot of vintage TV series and movies.
I enjoy trying to recognize various actors in their earlier and less recognizable roles.

I was watching an episode of the Lucy Show, and she had a date with a 6’5”, good looking dude wearing a silvery blue suit. He had a slightly southern accent and a very pleasant manner.
After a few minutes, I realized it was good ol’ Cheyenne himself- Clint Walker. :)

I’d give myself a 10, if I was able to recognize that the guy playing The Thing was James Arness. ;)

I saw someone that I sort of recognized at school outside, then the next day I was in class and the girl that sat next to me for weeks took her mask off to drink water and I internally gasped realizing it was her, so I guess like a 3.5

I deal with that. I always attributed it to my needing glasses as a child, which I didn’t have, so I never developed that ability. I didn’t know that was a diagnosable condition.
I depend on cues to identify people. I used to talk to this woman quite often in her office at work. When I saw her on BART, she would always say hello, and I would always wonder who she was.

I’d say pretty close to a ten, or at least a nine.

I could probably recognize at our present senior age a kid I went to first grade with, even though I was only in class with them for that one year. I spot actors in roles at a much younger age, just doing bit parts in old movies. I could pick out in my parents’ 1940s college yearbooks people that I had known only much later as adults.

I remember the names, too.

Whatever makes human features so memorable to me may be related to my interest in the past few years in taking portrait classes with a fine artist. I’ve also spent quantities of time studying the portraits of Rembrandt, Gilbert Stuart, and John Singleton Copley.

Maybe an 8. I can usually identify actors and readily recognize what movies they have been in, even if it ranges from when they were a child to old age.

When I was first dating my wife, she took me to Easter dinner to meet her family. The whole family. The extended family. Grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins….the whole thing. By the end of the evening I was saying good night to everybody by name. I think I only missed one or two out of about 40 people.

I am in the middle. A good ten years out of high school, I recognized a woman I had known since fifth grade but had not seen in six years walking by my office. But I meet people in AA meetings who come up to me and say hello, and I don’t recognize them, let alone remember their name.

Once a long ago I met a woman at a bar while I was drunk. The next morning her card was in my pocket. We met for a dinner date but I could not remmeber what she looked like. She recognized me, though. Fortunately, it worked out well enough that we dated for six months before it fell apart.

I remember faces fairly well. Names, not so much. I can meet someone and five minutes later, forget their name if you were to ask me.

I’m probably a 9 or 10. When it comes to names, I’m about a 2.

My memory for faces is reasonably good, maybe a seven or an eight but my memory for names is I think below average. I remember place names better than I remember people’s names. It annoys me when I forget someone’s name and I spend hours trying to remember. I may remember the first letter of the name and how long it is and eventually it usually comes back to me. As a last resort I check old diaries to see if I wrote down the name at the time.