HOW TO READ YOUR RESULTS
What your results mean.
Short version: levels describe how you did on these puzzles. Your archetype describes how you see yourself. Neither is a brain scan.
Your level
A level is a named band for one test, from Level 1 · Explorer to Level 5 · Cartographer. It is worked out from your own answers alone: the harder the puzzles you get right, the higher the band. A puzzle you leave unanswered once it’s on screen counts as a miss; a timed one still waiting at Get ready doesn’t count yet. It is not a ranking against other people, and it is not a measure of brain health.
Early reads and bests
Your first few rounds give an early level, which may change as you play more. The word beside a level says how settled it is: Early read, Taking shape or Settled. Holding steady means you have met most of the puzzles near your level, so it stays where it is for now; new puzzles near your level would set it moving again. Your best moves up once your level has settled and stays above it, not just after a lucky stretch, and it never goes down, so one tough day can’t erase it.
Using a screen reader?
Colour Clash is about seeing ink colours. A screen reader has to say the colour out loud, which gives the answer away, so that puzzle is much easier by ear. Memory study screens stay up for only a few seconds, which may not be long enough for a screen reader to read them out. In Spot Count, the spoken names make look-alikes easier to tell apart by ear. Your level is still worked out from your own answers alone.
Six areas, not one score
Each test has its own scale, so a Level 3 in Memory and a Level 3 in Language can’t be compared. We never rank your areas against each other or against other people.
Your archetype
Your archetype comes only from your 20 answers to the Mini-IPIP, a short public-domain personality questionnaire. It describes how you see yourself today. Puzzle results never change it, and you can retake it any time.
Your play style
Your play-style line describes how you played recently. It might mention your guesses, scores or pace. It never shows your times, and it describes how you played, not who you are.
Brain facts
Brain facts describe the kind of puzzle and what people did in related studies. They never describe your brain: we only see your answers, never your brain.
Your data
Your answers stay in this tab. If you choose to save, this browser keeps your nickname and age range, your levels, bests, round counts and the puzzles you have met, which recent puzzles you got right or wrong (for a yes-or-no puzzle, that is the same as your pick), your badges, your five trait scores and archetype, your play-style line, and the learning entries and puzzle stories you mark. Under 18, or rather not say? Nothing about you is kept after the visit. Pick Light or Dark on Home and this browser remembers that one choice, whatever your age. Deleting saved data in My details & data clears it, and so does clearing this site’s data in your browser.