Prosopagnosia

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Same. I mostly strongly remembered one guy whose jaw seemed to push his face outward when he looked forward, and another guy who had very light (blue?) eyes and bushy eyebrows. When it got fuzzy, I was just pressing random keys.

For me, recognizing a person is more than just their face. It also has to do with their hair, body shape, and height.

I didn't take the test because I already know I will do poorly.

I recognize people by their hair and their voice for the most part If this was a test for voice, I'd probably score higher than average.

Prosopagnosia is lovely... or not. I went first year at uni, and we had "sponsors" in the class ahead in case we wondered something. Once I was almost at school and this girl asked me "Hows my baby??". I was kind of confused to who she was but, maybe she was my sponsor and I was the baby? I just muttered something like "fine", which I am glad I did. Her next question was "Has she grown at all?" and then I realized this is not my sponsor, this is the girl I got a kitten from...

How bad this could have turned out....

I have not been diagnosed (with either ASD or Prosopagnosia), but am terrible at recognising people's faces, especially if I am not familiar with the person. Last week, I was talking to a man at a conference who I do not know (I was giving him information). I turned around, and saw the person whom he was looking for. When I turned back around to where I had spoken to him, he had stepped back, and was talking to some other people. I did not know which one was the man with whom I had been talking (for about 5 minutes) a few seconds before. This really scared me, as I did not know that I was that bad.

I mostly use people's hair/clothing/glasses to tell them apart. I even find it difficult to recognise immediate family members.

I did the Cambridge Face Memory Test:

Thank you for taking part in this experiment.
Your accuracy in the experiment was: 90%

The average score on this test is around 80% correct responses for adult participants.
A score of 60% or below may indicate face blindness.

In the last experiments where they didn't show the faces clearly I was mostly guessing though.
It would have been nice if they had included female faces instead of only male faces.

Btw irl I always think that people won't recognise me if I for example change my hair colour, wear a hat or tie back my hair. I'm always surprised when people do recognise me. Anyone else who gets that feeling?

Yes. I actually had a rather unusual experience a couple of weeks ago where I went to a conference for work for the first time since transitioning to male and I had sort of assumed that people wouldn't recognize me because they wouldn't be expecting me to wear a suit and tie along with the physical changes. To my surprise everyone there who knew me before recognized me almost immediately.

Funny, my score was 58:
Your accuracy in the experiment was: 58%
The average score on this test is around 80% correct responses for adult participants.
A score of 60% or below may indicate face blindness.
I can see someone I've seen 100 times and fail to recognize them, and I can have two photos of someone on my computer and not realize for a year that they're the same person. But I never thought that if I changed my hair color or tied up my hair people wouldn't be able to recognize me. I mean, even I can tell that Clark Kent is Superman with glasses on. This however suggests how an ace reporter like Lois Lane could miss the fact that two identical people are the same guy -- clearly, she suffers from prosopagnosia!

I got 42, the first part I could do, but the second and third part I just guessed. I am not good at faces.