Try a free Verbal Memory Test: choose New or Seen as common words appear, keep going until three mistakes, and review missed words. No timer, account or download.
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Press Start when ready. The first word is always New because no word has appeared yet in this run.
Choose New on a word’s first appearance. Choose Seen when that same word appeared earlier in the current run. Focus a game control to use N and S.
A wrong choice uses one of three mistakes. Feedback explains whether the word was new or when it first appeared; choose Continue when ready.
Three mistakes end the run. Your correct answers save to this browser, and the missed-word review shows what happened. New run begins a fresh list.
This verbal memory test is an untimed recognition game using an original bank of common English words. Some prompts introduce a new word and others repeat an earlier one. The rule stays New or Seen throughout. Correct choices add one point; mistakes show an explanation before continuing. A run normally ends after three mistakes and also ends if every word in the bank has been introduced. It is recreational word recognition, not a clinical memory assessment.
Your result is the number of correct New-or-Seen judgments before the run ends. Incorrect judgments do not add points. There is no reaction-time bonus, percentile or population ranking. The word order and repeat schedule vary, so compare your own game sessions with their differences in mind. Unfinished runs are not restored; completed results remain in local history.
More about your scores →The first LEAF is New. MOON is also New. When LEAF appears again, choose Seen because it appeared earlier in this run. If you start a new run and LEAF is its first word, it is New again, regardless of your previous game.
Seeing LEAF does not make TREE Seen. Judge the exact word. Ordinary familiarity with the word is different from remembering it in this particular run.
A mistaken Seen judgment means you recognized a new word too soon; a mistaken New judgment means you missed a repeat. Feedback identifies which happened and keeps the next card hidden until Continue.
Judge whether this exact word appeared in this run, not whether it is familiar English.
Keep similar words separate instead of treating every nature or household word as the same group.
Use the missed-word explanation to check whether you forgot a repeat or incorrectly recognized a new word.
Results describe this game session. They are not IQ scores, diagnoses or clinical assessments.
No. Only appearances in the current run count. Starting again clears the recognition list, even if the same word appeared in a previous game.
The third mistake ends the run. Earlier mistakes pause on a short explanation until you choose Continue.
No. It is a browser word game. The score describes your choices in that run and is not a diagnosis or standardized measure of ability.
No. Only correct judgments add one point. The third mistake ends the run and records that correct-answer total.
No. Repeated keydown events from a held key are ignored. Keyboard shortcuts operate only while a game control is focused.
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