What this test measures
A typical result in this visual memory test is level 8 to 10: remembering about 10 to 12 highlighted tiles at once on a 5×5 or 6×6 grid. Level 13 or more is well above average. The score shows how much spatial detail you can take in at a glance.
This test measures visual short-term memory for patterns: how many locations you can store from a single brief look. Research on visual working memory shows that people do not remember single dots so much as shapes and groups, which is why spotting a pattern helps a lot.
How it works
- Press Start. Some tiles light up for about one second.
- When they disappear, click every tile that was lit.
- Three wrong tiles in a level cost a life and the level starts again. You have three lives.
Your score is the last level you completed (higher is better). Level n shows n + 2 tiles, on grids from 3×3 up to 8×8.
How to do your best
- Take in the whole grid at once instead of scanning it tile by tile.
- Name the shape you see: “an L in the corner and a pair on the right”.
- Click the tiles you are sure about first, then the rest.