77 Responses

1. Joi says:

   December 4, 2008 at 8:38

   It was easy toward the begin­ning, but a cou­ple of rows into it, it got trickier.

   Thanks for the men­tal stimulation!
2. Gary says:

   December 4, 2008 at 9:28

   This is VERY cool. It is not unlike one of the games found in Lumos­ity by the way.. It’s a tough one.
3. Jennifer says:

   December 5, 2008 at 8:00

   I just looked at the last let­ter of each word, try­ing not to get dis­tracted by the word itself.
4. jean says:

   December 21, 2008 at 3:36

   I learned many years ago the best way to go into these kinds of tests is to read the instruc­tions with total focus twice before start­ing. It makes a huge dif­fer­ence in what your brain accepts. A c
   atholic school must for every­thing being done (work or play) whether you thought you knew the inc­truc­tions or not.
5. jean says:

   December 21, 2008 at 3:42

   I learned many years ago the best way to go into these kinds of tests is to read the instruc­tions with total focus twice before start­ing. It makes a huge dif­fer­ence in what your brain accepts.
6. Rebekah says:

   December 31, 2008 at 12:38

   The objec­tive behind the brain teaser is to exer­cise your atten­tion span.Finding an eas­ier way to go through it for exam­ple blur­ring your vision sim­ply defeats the pur­pose. I find myself get­ting bet­ter at it with sim­ply more prac­tice. Tim­ing myself proves my progress.
7. rq says:

   January 5, 2009 at 12:58

   I took a test like this as part of cog­ni­tive test­ing when my doc­tor thought my med­ica­tion was hav­ing an ill effect on my mem­ory, etc. I had no prob­lem doing the test this way but when they had me say the colours and not the words (or X’s), I had a hard time with it.
8. Bill Wright` says:

   January 8, 2009 at 9:57

   try focus­ing on the last let­ter of each word to see only the actual color
9. Kyriakos says:

   February 23, 2009 at 2:56

   I just made my vision blurry so I can­not read just see the colors:)
10. maya says:

    February 23, 2009 at 11:32

    woah that was kinda realy hard. like at first it was eaasy but then i saw how it changed and it was hard for my brain to try and say the right color! it was fun though:]
11. Raghu says:

    February 24, 2009 at 10:14

    I was able to cor­rectly iden­tify the color when started from bottom.
12. pavan says:

    March 28, 2009 at 3:30

    hey another way of going through eas­ily is just look at the color, and dont let your brain read the spelling at start. Then you can eas­ily go through this. It worked for me!!
13. Bernie says:

    March 29, 2009 at 4:53

    Poses no prob­lem
    for those who are
    literate.
14. Bernie says:

    March 29, 2009 at 4:57

    The rest of you are
    fuckwits.

    last word doesn’t
    pass the spellchecker,
    but check:

    http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=fuckwit.
15. Anoop Jayaram says:

    April 2, 2009 at 11:37

    Nice & Sim­ple One! enjoyed it.

    it chal­lenges our brain’s ten­dency to scan through words.
16. ardit says:

    April 18, 2009 at 3:29

    it was very easy for me.
    maybe because i was tired and my brain for­got to focus on the mean­ing of the words…
    funny.. the best way is not to try hard
17. Tammy says:

    May 18, 2009 at 11:13

    if you blur your vision its really easy because you cant c the words!
18. Constantina says:

    October 13, 2009 at 6:16

    I pro­gressed through the first two lines and then got mixed up as i went through the other lines. I have to observe the instruc­tions properly.
19. Florence says:

    October 20, 2009 at 12:07

    Read from the bot­tom and it was faster. Con­cen­tra­tion slows down when read from top to bot­tom. Great exer­cise !!! Thanks.
20. Brenda Kane says:

    October 20, 2009 at 7:28

    I cheated and took my glass off! Worked fine and fast.
    I put them back on and it was much more dif­fi­cult.
    Hope I’m not one that looks but doesn’t see.
    Thanks, fun.
21. Tom says:

    October 21, 2009 at 7:33

    If you needed to be lit­er­ate you prob­a­bly didn’t under­stand the exer­cise. bet you got most of them wrong.
22. Lauren Winters says:

    October 25, 2009 at 3:07

    I have always had my own trick when doing things like this. I just make my sight blurry, so all I can see is the color shown and not be able to read the word. [:
23. tuaua says:

    October 25, 2009 at 10:29

    I recently done the test in my neu­ropsy­cho­log­i­cal assessment.I had a stroke 2yrs ago. I moved thru test slowly, found it hard to focus & con­cen­trate but after I gave it a few go’s I got the hang of it .It’s ideal for brain train­ing & stim­u­la­tion along with all other brainteasers.
24. Aley Lawrence says:

    November 1, 2009 at 10:47

    I can do it eas­ily by blur­ring my vision through nar­row­ing my eyes
25. michelle says:

    November 10, 2009 at 11:41

    it gave me a headache
26. Bob Beaver says:

    November 15, 2009 at 3:55

    A most inter­est­ing exer­cise, par­tic­u­larly as one is con­scious (aware) that the brain is strug­gling against what the eyes see and what the mouth wants to say. I enjoyed the exer­cise, but then again, being an edu­cated Eng­lish­man my brain always fas­ci­nates me.
27. Khalil says:

    November 15, 2009 at 10:57

    Well it was to say sec­ond time. I used a trick, I did not see the com­plete words while say­ing, I just con­cen­trate on the color of last alpha­bet of the word, did not look the whole word at all, in just sec­ond attmept the result was 100%..cool
    KA