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Memory games and tests

Memory games and tests that run in your browser: remember numbers, tile patterns, sequences of flashes, faces, words and colors. Free, nothing to install, and every game ends with one plain result, usually the level you reached.

How much can you hold?

How many numbers, tiles or steps you can keep in mind at once.

  • Visual Memory

    Remember which tiles lit up.~2 min
  • Digit Span

    Repeat the digits, forward or backward.~2-4 min
  • Sequence Memory

    Repeat the order the tiles light up.~1-3 min
  • Chimp Test

    Remember where the numbers were, in order.~2 min
  • Number Flash

    Numbers flash, then hide. Tap them in order.~1-3 min
  • N-Back

    Does this letter match the one N back?~2 min
  • Dual N-Back

    Track a square and a spoken letter at once. Which match N back?~2 min
  • Operation Span

    Check sums, and remember the letters in between. How many come back?~3 min
  • Spatial Memory

    Find the tokens. Never look twice where one already was.~3 min

Recognise and recall

Recognise what you've seen before, or recall where it was and what it looked like.

  • Memory Match

    Turn the cards and find every pair.~1 min
  • Face Memory

    Remember faces, then spot them again.~1-2 min
  • Verbal Memory

    Seen this word before, or new?~1-3 min
  • Object Location

    Put each object back where it was.~2-4 min
  • Color Memory

    See a color, then rebuild it from memory.~2 min
  • Delayed Matching

    See a pattern, wait, then find it among four. How long does it last?~3 min

Which memory test should you try first?

The Visual Memory Test, Digit Span or Sequence Memory. Each adds one more item at every level, so your result is simply how far you got. The N-Back Test works differently: instead of a growing list, you compare each new item with the one 1, 2 or 3 steps back, holding and updating at the same time; the Dual N-Back Test does it for a square and a spoken letter at once. The Operation Span Test measures how much you hold while doing something else: sums between the letters. The Spatial Memory asks you to keep track of places as you search: which boxes you have opened, and which have already given up a token.

The other games test recognition and recall: whether you have seen a face or a word before, where an object was, or exactly what color you were shown. The Delayed Match-to-Sample Test makes you wait before you choose, so its score at each wait shows how fast a picture fades.

Is this a memory test for dementia?

No. These are games, not medical or clinical memory assessments, and no score here can point to dementia or any other condition. Your device, your attention on the day and how often you have played all change the result. If you or someone close to you is worried about memory, talk to a doctor.

What is a good score on a memory test?

It depends on the test, so each page answers that for itself. Where someone has published a typical result for a test built like ours, the page quotes it and links the source; where nobody has, the page says so rather than invent an average. The fairest comparison is with your own earlier tries on the same device.