Color Count
Ignore the shapes. Count one colour. Then report your number.
One digit hides in the noise. The grid grows, the clock shrinks.
The prompt names one digit — find it in the grid.
Only one cell holds it. Tap it before the bar runs out.
Each round the grid grows and the timer gets shorter. Three misses and you're out.
This is visual search, the task used to study how attention sweeps a cluttered scene. Because every distractor is also a digit, nothing pops out on its own — you have to scan deliberately. Skilled searchers stop reading each cell and start letting the target shape surface on its own.
Round 7 is solid, round 10 is sharp. The grid is 9×9 by then and you get four seconds.
Sweep row by row at a steady pace instead of jumping around. Most people lose time re-checking cells they already passed.
Ignore the shapes. Count one colour. Then report your number.
Ignore the colours. Count one shape. Then report your number.
Memorize 1–9, then tap in order after the digits vanish.