Amazing perception test challenges your mental vitality and flexibility

10 September 2023 , 17:22

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The test is seriously tricky (Image: SharpBrains)

Brainteasers, optical illusions, and similar puzzles are all really fun ways to test your mental agility - and if it isn't great, there are ways that you can improve it. Practice definitely makes perfect, and practicing with your friends and family makes it so much more enjoyable.

This test, known as the 'Stroop Test', has been hailed as a "great brainteaser to challenge your mental vitality and flexibility" by Sharp Brains, and it's a test "used in neuropsychological evaluations to measure mental vitality and flexibility since performing well requires strong attention, inhibition, and self-regulation capability (also called executive functions)."

Do you think you can successfully take on the test? (SharpBrains)

The test challenges you to look at the image above, and say aloud what colour you see in every word, NOT the word you read. Go from left to right, from top to bottom. Go! It's so much harder than it seems, isn't it? And the more you think about it too deeply, the more likely it is that you're going to get it wrong and mess up. Did you manage to do it? If not, why not give it another go? It's so much fun!

If you enjoyed this, why not try spotting the number 45 hidden in a sea of 44s? Or perhaps you'd like to try and answer the hardest University Challenge question? Clue: it's seriously tough! Also, you have an ice-cool IQ if you can spot the word 'sweat' in this baffling optical illusion.

If you can answer these Mensa questions correctly, then it means you're a certified genius and can show off to everyone you know. Or maybe you want to check whether you've got laser-sharp vision - because you do if you can spot the letter 'F' in sea of 'Es' in 18 seconds.

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Did you manage to complete the test? Let us know in the comments.

Danielle Kate Wroe