Attention Test — Free 8-Task Focus Battery

The Comprehensive attention test runs 8 different attention tasks back to back in a fixed order. It opens with Selective attention, where you pick targets out of distractors, then the Flanker task, where you focus on the central item and ignore the interference around it. Next comes Go/No-Go, which checks how well you sustain attention while holding back impulses, and Attention cueing, which measures how quickly your attentional spotlight moves when a cue points the way.

The last four tasks focus on visual attention. Visual search shows how much extra clutter slows you down; Attentional blink catches the brief moment your brain misses a second item that follows quickly after the first; Change blindness asks you to spot what changes between flickering scenes; and Object tracking has you follow target dots among other moving dots until the end. Each task produces its own score on a 0–100 scale.

Your composite score is the rounded average of the task scores that were measured to the end. A composite of 85 or above is labelled Excellent, 70–84 Strong, 50–69 Average, and below 50 Needs attention. An average, however, lets strengths and weaknesses cancel out. That is why the result also shows a bar for each of the 8 domains: if visual search is high but only the inhibition task is low, that gap says far more than the single composite.

The “How you compare” panel places your composite within the distribution of other test-takers as a “Top x%” figure. Until enough data has accumulated, it carries a “Norming in progress · provisional” tag along with the sample size, so treat that percentile as a rough reference. If you have an earlier run, the change versus last time is shown too; when sleep, caffeine, time of day or device differed, factor that into how you read it.

The battery rests on the idea that attention is not one ability but several systems working together. Posner and Petersen (1990) described separate systems for staying alert, for orienting attention to a location, and for resolving conflicting responses, while the SART work of Robertson et al. (1997) studied how attention leaks away during monotonous tasks. Each task here is Soundary's own implementation of a published research paradigm.

Because the full battery takes about 20–25 minutes, your progress is saved in the browser on the device you are using after each completed task. If you close the page, reopen it within 6 hours and “Resume” picks up at the next task; after that, you start from the beginning. The test is a self-reflection aid and does not replace a diagnosis. When you retest, using a similar time of day and the same device makes comparison with your last result much fairer.