Perception Playground

30 experiments testing your vision, sense of time, and calibration. How well do you really know your own senses?

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Category 01

Visual

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Reaction Time

Red to green. Click fast. 5 trials. How do you compare to the human average?

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Change Blindness

Image flashes, something changes. Can you spot it? 5 rounds.

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Color Memory

See a color for 3 seconds, then pick it from 6 similar shades.

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Size Illusion

Ebbinghaus illusion: identical circles that look completely different.

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Peripheral Vision

Identify shapes in your periphery while fixating on the center.

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Impossible Objects

Rate how fast you spot the impossibility in Penrose-style figures.

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Contrast Sensitivity

Are these grays the same or different? Your monitor disagrees with your brain.

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Stroop Effect

Color words in wrong colors. Name the color, not the word. Time yourself.

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Motion Aftereffect

Stare at a rotating pattern, then see a static image move.

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Attentional Blindness

Count the events. Miss something obvious. The classic awareness test.

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Time & Sound

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10-Second Challenge

Start, count to 10 in your head, stop. No timer visible. How far off are you?

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Tempo Tapping

Hear a beat, then reproduce it from memory. How accurate is your rhythm?

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Duration Estimation

Watch an animation. Estimate how long it lasted.

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Time Under Pressure

Estimate 10 seconds while doing math vs relaxing. See the difference.

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The Watched Pot

Progress bar vs distraction. Rate how long each felt.

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Pitch Memory

Hear a tone, then pick it from options after a delay.

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Rhythm Recognition

Two rhythms: same or different? Test your auditory pattern matching.

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Sound Localization

Which side did the sound come from? Test your stereo perception.

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Time Flies Effect

Fun task vs boring wait. Same duration. Estimate each.

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Metronome Sync

Sync your tapping to a metronome. Measure your drift over time.

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Calibration

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Size Estimation

Estimate real sizes of everyday objects. How calibrated are your hands?

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Weight Intuition

Big light vs small heavy. Experience the size-weight illusion.

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Numerosity

Dots flash for one second. How many? Subitizing vs estimation.

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Distance Judgment

Two points on screen. Estimate the real-world distance.

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Speed Estimation

A dot moves across the screen. Estimate its speed in mph.

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Angle Estimation

See an angle, estimate the degrees. 5 rounds.

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Probability Calibration

10 questions with confidence levels. Are you overconfident or underconfident?

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Memory Span

Number sequences, increasing length. Find your digit span limit.

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Temperature Estimation

Weather scenes. Estimate the temperature. Compare to actual.

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Counting Speed

Count scattered objects as fast as possible. Accuracy vs speed tradeoff.