Can you name these perplexing washing symbols? Take our quiz to see if you know what ‘do not iron’ and ‘dry clean only’ are

IF you see a funny-looking Dalek, a Pink Floyd album cover or the Avengers logo, you might be illiterate.

A recent survey found that only three percent of us can identify all the washing, drying and ironing symbols on our clothes.

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Of the symbols, “hand wash only” was the most well-known, at 79 percent, followed by “dry clean only,” at 61 percent – ​​but how many do you understand?

Find out if you’re a laundry legend or a fry-up by taking Josh Saunders’ laundry symbols quiz.

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And the answers…

1) Hand wash only

2) Washing machine, any cycle

3) Synthetic cycle

4) Gentle or wool wash cycle

5) Not suitable for hand or machine washing

6) Wash at 30ºC or less

7) Wash at 40ºC or less

8) Wash at 50ºC or less

9) Wash at 60ºC or less

10) Wash at 95ºC or less

11) Tumble dry, any heat

12) Tumble dry on low heat only

13) Tumble dry on medium heat only

14) Tumble dry, only on high heat

15) Do not dry in the dryer

16) Dry clean with any solvent (no, not the Marvel logo)

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17) Dry clean with any solvent except trichloroethylene

18) Dry clean only with petroleum solvents

19) Do not dry clean

20) Dry clean only

21) Ironing is allowed (nothing to do with Daleks)

22) Iron at 110C max.

23) Do not iron

24) Iron at 150C max.

25) Do not steam

26) No, it’s not Dark Side Of The Moon by Pink Floyd – any type of bleach is allowed

27) Only use non-chlorine bleach

28) Do not use bleach

29) You can twist

30) Don’t wring it dry

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