Fig 1. Super-recognisers’ face matching accuracy benchmarked against student controls and forensic examiners on two challenging tests of face matching.

In the facial recognition candidate list test (left), participants decided if the face pictured at the top matched any in the array (‘candidate list’) below. In the selfie-to-passport test (right), participants decided if the two images showed the same person or two different people. Super-recogniser groups were equivalent in accuracy compared to examiners on both tasks. Despite this, average performance was substantially less than 100% and no individual attained perfect accuracy.