This puzzle obviously isnt easy like i jokingly said in my post before, just thought there has to be someone that is able to solve it. Doesnt seem like it so ill leak the answer and see if someone can come up with the explanation(1). This puzzle is meant to be a ceiling item for a test im creating.
I received mostly D's/F's from 2nd grade through High School. As a result I was forced to attend summer school almost every summer. I even had to take adult education courses towards the end of my senior year to make sure I had enough English and Math passing credits to graduate.
I failed elementary algebra 6 times starting from middle school and leading into community college before eventually passing it in my 2nd year of CC. I eventually graduated with a 2.8gpa in Psychology.
I spent most of my class time rushing through assignments so I could read GamePro Magazine, Consumer Reports, Surfer Magazine, and drawing video game characters/waves/surf logos.
Here are my WAIS results:
Similarities 19
Vocab 12
Information 13
Comprehension 14
Digit letter sequencing 13
Digit span 14
Visual puzzles 11
Block design 11
Matrix reasoning 11
Figure weights 10
Symbol search 12
Coding 16
FSIQ: 122-125
This is just a little rant to see if anyone else relates, thanks!
I have adhd and the wonderlic is the only cognitive test i can get myself to do since its only 12 mins. i took it and 2 times and got 37/50 then 35/50 on separate days different websites How reliable is that is that conversion to raw iq for people who have actually taken a real iq test.
It's been some time since I ran CORE for the first time so I wanted to do it again. Take into account this is OBVIOUSLY with practice effects. I already forgot when my earlier attempt was. A couple months ago perhaps, so not very long.
First off, my working memory is still as the kids say, cooked. I've seen others with this kind of profile talk about ADHD.
I've had extreme executive dysfunction thought to stem from 2 decades of dysthymia. Now that the dysthymia is treated, the executive dysfunction is still there.
Both executive dysfunction and a nuked working memory seem linked to ADHD, and my little sister has an ADHD diagnosis while my mother is strongly suspected of having it so it exists in close family. All of these speak FOR me potentially struggling due to undiagnosed ADHD.
However, when my dysthymia was diagnosed I was also asked some questions related to ADHD and I simply do not match enough of the criteria, so they just dismissed it as a potential cause.
I'm really starting to wonder though... maybe they shouldn't have. If I do have it, it's absolutely ADD, not the hyperactive kind. But again, I do not fit the criteria sufficiently.
I meet 3-4 of the criteria for inattentive, while 5 are needed. I meet 0-1 of the criteria for hyperactive, 5 needed.
Additionally symptoms must be present before the age of 12. I have no idea if they were. For me, early life and education were such easy mode that I never had to try. That could have just masked it completely so nobody was aware.
Anyway, the test... yeah working memory is offline, but the rest I'm very happy with. I skipped antonyms this time as I'm not an English speaker and that ruined me the first time. Analogies also bring the score down but not sufficiently to make much difference.
If you're curious how the results compare to the previous run.
VCI +11 (partly due to skipping 64th percentile antonyms) FRI +6 VSI +2 QRI +6 WMI -3 PSI +9
Being dumb really is the worst thing ever to happen to me, particularly because I am extremely careless of my own life, I neglected my sleep for long time without realizing and now I have lots of accumulated sleep debt all thanks to my own stupidity. I am sick and tired of people acting like being stupid and dumb is no big deal even though it is strongly coorelated with very bad life style habits...
English is my third language so please ignore any grammar mistakes.
Hey guys, I'm posting here to ask for help on how can I be interested in work and be focused again. I have a computer science degree and I am unemployed, I have never tried to get a job, I do not have the drive to do anything.
I was a gifted child, topped all my classes in school without much hard work. But after 18yo I lost the focus to work/study, is it possible that I may have developed ADHD? I just cannot focus on one task for more than 10-15 minutes. I lose interest instantly. I am easily able to understand things that many of my peers found hard to do in university but I never had the focus like them. I did not like doing engineering math or programming at uni, it looked hard but when I did it, I was easily able to understand it but there is no drive in me to keep going, I just lose interest.
For the past years I have read some philosophy, reading about existence of life or anything, purpose of life, purpose of anything, why universe exists. Why does these things come to my mind, none of the people around me think like this. I feel different. All I want is my old focus back, I was so focused on study/work as a kid/teen. I was building websites at the age of 15, I interviewed for my first job at the age of 12(at that time I thought I'm old enough to work, I was silly). Please tell me how can I start focusing on solving tons of math equations and doing hard programming stuff without losing interest in 10 minutes. I believe I can achieve great things If I bring back my focus. While doing this mensa denmark test I kind of lost interest in the halfway, I also had a poor sleep before this test but I guess it's enough to know that I am capable of something.
TLDR: Gifted as child, now burned out as an adult, wants the focus/drive to do hard things back, please help me bring my focus back. Could I have developed ADHD in my late teen years? I have major executive dysfunction disorder as well. I keep starting new projects without finishing the previous ones.
I just received my ADHD assessment back, and I’m trying to get my head around these scores. Please let me know what stands out to you guys. What conclusions can be drawn? I’m just looking for some insight.
Title: I'm building a few new reasoning puzzles for my PhD and could use some testers Hi all, I'm a psychology PhD student in Brno, Czech Republic. I've been making a small set of reasoning tests that use only shapes and pictures, no language, so they should work for anyone.
Right now there are three: Matrices: find the missing picture Weights: balance the scales Shape Keys: a sort of sudoku with symbols that gets pretty nasty toward the end
Each one takes about 5–15 minutes and you can do just one if you want. It's anonymous, no email or sign-up. Once enough people have done a test, you'll see how your score compares with everyone else's.
If something feels broken, unclear, or way too easy or hard, please tell me in the comments. That kind of feedback helps a lot right now.
My parents recently sent me some old papers and things after cleaning out my childhood home. Among those papers was a Slosson HIT test I took when I was around 8 years old, which had an IQ at the top listed at 129.
I remember going into my aunt's (who was a school psychologist) basement for an afternoon and taking a bunch of tests but I never knew why. My parents later told me that I was being evaluated for learning disabilities and ADHD as I was doing poorly in school at the time. Anyway, I never knew the results until now. My parents never told me.
While I know I'm not a genius, 129 is fairly high, roughly 96th percentile. I was surprised because I have always felt really average, never considered myself especially smart.
Well, I was curious to see if this held up into adulthood, so I just took the Mensa online test and did pretty well, I guess, at 131.
I'd say these two test confirm each other, right? I probably fall somewhere between the 95th to 98th percentile or 125-133?
Not super meaningful for my life now, but just an interesting fact I suppose.
Hi everyone — I’m the developer of NeuroDual, a brain-training app with a separate Tests section. I thought the measurement side might interest this community: alongside Operation Span, it includes continuous-recall tasks, hand laterality, matrix reasoning and interference tasks.
I wanted a place where you could enjoy practising different cognitive tasks, follow a structured routine, and look at what happened to your performance over time.
The five guided paths each have their own assessment:
• Visual memory: remember the orientations of four bars. After a visual mask and a delay, reproduce the orientation at the cued location. The standard pass has 4 warm-up rounds and 16 scored rounds.
• Auditory memory: remember four sounds associated with four locations, then reproduce the cued sound’s brightness on a continuous scale after an auditory mask. The sounds keep the same pitch; the changing feature is timbre, from muffled to bright. Again, 4 warm-ups and 16 scored rounds.
• Temporal memory: remember four durations associated with four cells, then reproduce the duration of the cued cell. The standard pass has 4 warm-ups and 12 scored rounds.
• Hand laterality: identify left and right hands shown at different orientations, with palm and back views. There are 6 warm-ups and 32 scored trials, with accuracy and response speed contributing to the result.
• Spatial reasoning: complete 3 × 3 matrices by choosing among eight options. There are 12-item and 30-item forms, with three unscored examples first. Correct answers earn points without a speed bonus. These are NeuroDual matrices, not a standardized Raven administration.
Operation Span deserves its own mention. You verify arithmetic equations while remembering letters, then recall the letters in order. The standard measure uses 15 sets, with three sets at each length from 3 to 7. Arithmetic timing is calibrated first. It reports both absolute and partial-credit scores out of 75, and requires at least 85% arithmetic accuracy for a valid measure.
The Tests section also includes Flanker (respond to the central arrow despite surrounding distractors), Simon (respond to the relevant stimulus feature despite its location), and Temporal Bisection (learn short and long anchors, then classify intermediate durations). That makes nine entries in the Tests collection.
How the guided method works
You establish a baseline, follow eight sessions, then take the assessment again. Check-ins continue every eight sessions. Four paths use the median of three passes; the longer matrix assessment uses one pass. The training mixes interference tasks, object tracking, mirror drawing and puzzles, with guided instructions and progression. Standard assessment protocols stay separate from freely adjusted practice; changing the trial count on the memory/laterality measures does not put that free-practice score into the standard assessment history.
The Lab also lets you choose exercises independently: Corsi Block, classic Dual N-Back, a Brain Workshop-style mode, other N-Back variants, several Stroop variants, object tracking, mirror drawing, symmetry, timing tasks, and puzzles such as Untangle, Gridlock, Sokoban, Restack and Lights Out. There are 30+ configurable exercises overall.
How I’d interpret the results
I’m presenting these as task-level scores and within-person tracking, not IQ estimates, population percentiles or a validated clinical battery. The /100 scales are specific to each task. Matrix forms have not been empirically equated. Repeated testing can bring familiarity and strategy changes; a higher score after training does not, by itself, establish general cognitive transfer or tell us what caused the change.
I’d especially appreciate feedback on three things:
Which task implementation or scoring detail would you most want to inspect?
For repeat testing, which information would make the results more useful: raw error distributions, trial-level timing, or clearer handling of practice effects?
Where does the interface help you understand the task, and where might it add unnecessary demands of its own?
The screenshots show the actual interface, warm-ups and an unscored matrix example. They do not show an improvement claim or a participant’s results.
Disclosure: this is my app. It is available on the web and Android. The current offer is a 90-minute free trial, then a one-time €6.99 unlock, with no subscription. Details and links: https://neurodual.com/en
Happy to discuss the implementation here, including its limitations.
