Focus · visuomotor pointing
Aim Trainer
Hit the targets as fast as you can.
No IQ score. No cognitive age. No percentile.
Focus · visuomotor pointing
Aim Trainer
Hit the targets as fast and as accurately as you can.
Your best · — per target
A pointer task: Aim Trainer is played with a mouse, a trackpad or a finger, and has no keyboard path, because the aiming is the exercise. Every other game on the bench can be played from the keyboard.
Sign in and Train keeps your records. Go to Train
What practice on a game changes, and what it does not: Why training a game trains the game
Keep going
All games- Chronoscope · FocusReaction TimeHow fast are your reflexes?
- Sequencer · MemorySequence MemoryRepeat the growing pattern
- Plate · MemoryVisual MemoryFind the tiles that flashed
- Lexicon · MemoryVerbal MemoryHave you seen this word before?
- Chromatograph · Control · inhibitionStroopName the colour, not the wordCore
- Delay Line · MemoryN-BackHold the stream in mindCore
- Gate · ControlGo / No-GoTap — but hold when toldCore
- Router · Learning · flexibilityTask SwitchChange the rule on the flyCore
- Goniometer · Learning · spatialMental RotationSame shape, or mirrored?Core
- Register · MemoryNumber SpanHow long a number can you hold?Core
- Collimator · FocusFlankerAnswer the middle arrow, ignore its neighboursCore
- Comparator · MemoryChange DetectionOne item comes back — did it change?Core
- Titrator · LearningRule LearningFind the hidden rule from the feedbackCore
- Gantry · ControlTowerPlan the whole sequence before the first moveCore
Free to play here. On Train, part of Core.
What this measures
Your visuomotor pointing — how fast and accurately you move to a target and hit it. It is not an intelligence test and does not predict your rank in any game.
Precision for your average time and accuracy, or a 30-second blitz.
Where this task comes from
Moving to a target and hitting it is the oldest quantified task in this whole family. Fitts (1954) showed that the time a movement takes rises with how far the target is and falls with how big it is, in a relationship regular enough to be written down — which is why pointing is used to compare input devices, screens and layouts rather than people. This page is that task with a target that jumps: speed and accuracy in one run, both reported, neither hidden inside the other.
How to read your number
Two numbers, and they only mean something together: your own average per target, and the share of your attempts that landed on one. Either can be bought with the other — hurry and the share falls, slow down and it rises — so a run is honest only when both are read. There is no norming sample here, so there is no percentile and no ranking, and nothing about this run describes you away from this screen.
What changes your number
The pointer changes it most: a mouse, a trackpad and a thumb are three different tasks, and pointer speed settings change it again. Screen size and how far you sit from it change it, for the reason the work above describes — distance and target size are the two terms in it. Sleep, caffeine and how warmed up your hand is change it. Practice changes it, at this task, with this pointer.
Questions
- What does this measure?
- Your visuomotor pointing — how fast and accurately you can move to a target and hit it. It is not an intelligence test, and it does not predict your rank in any game.
- What are the two modes?
- Precision gives you 30 targets one at a time and reports your average time per target and your accuracy — the clean measured run. Blitz is 30 seconds of targets with a combo, for the arcade high score.
- Does a touchscreen change my score?
- Yes — a mouse, a trackpad and a touchscreen all feel different and add different amounts of input lag, so scores are only ever compared within the same kind of device.
- Will this improve my aim in games?
- You will get better at this task. Whether that carries into a specific game is limited and depends on the game — we won't over-promise it. It's a fun, honest measure of pointing speed.