--- title: Eyesight Video Test: Albert Einstein or Marilyn Monroe description: Do you see Albert Einstein or Marilyn Monroe? canonical: https://time.com/3770484/eyesight-video-test/ author: Samantha Grossman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-04-03T14:46:38.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:18:20.201Z og:title: Take This Simple Test to Find Out How Good Your Eyesight Is og:description: Do you see Albert Einstein or Marilyn Monroe? og:url: https://time.com/3770484/eyesight-video-test/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Take This Simple Test to Find Out How Good Your Eyesight Is twitter:description: Do you see Albert Einstein or Marilyn Monroe? twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Take This Simple Test to Find Out How Good (Or Bad) Your Eyesight Is by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Apr 3, 2015 2:46 PM UTC by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Apr 3, 2015 2:46 PM UTC Concerned about your vision? The video above provides a quick test to determine how good your eyesight is — and then lets you compare your vision with other people around you. The video, created by the YouTube channel [AsapSCIENCE](https://www.youtube.com/user/AsapSCIENCE/), will show you an image that, depending on your eyesight, will either look like Albert Einstein or Marilyn Monroe. If you have good eyesight, you’re more likely to see Einstein — but the farther away you get, the more likely you are to see Monroe. After the quick test, the video explains the science behind this optical phenomenon. Eyesight Video Test: Albert Einstein or Marilyn Monroe ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3770484/eyesight-video-test/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3770484/eyesight-video-test/"},"headline":"Take This Simple Test to Find Out How Good (Or Bad) Your Eyesight Is","datePublished":"2015-04-03T14:46:38.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:18:20.201Z","description":"Do you see Albert Einstein or Marilyn Monroe?","url":"https://time.com/3770484/eyesight-video-test/","keywords":["Newsfeed"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Samantha Grossman","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3770484/eyesight-video-test/","name":"Take This Simple Test to Find Out How Good (Or Bad) Your Eyesight Is"}}]}] ```