pistachio

how good are your senses, really?

sixteen short tests for your reflexes, your eye for colour, your sense of time, your memory and your steadiness. most take under a minute. at the end you get a shape — the things you're good at, and the things you're not.

every test is a real paradigm from the psychophysics literature, run properly: randomised intervals so you can't game the timing, frame-accurate stimulus onset, and comparisons segmented by screen refresh rate so a faster phone doesn't flatter you. where the norms are thin, it says so instead of inventing a percentile.

coming to the app store

iphone · free · no account needed

what's in it

the lightning handspeed
the drummer's cursespeed
the colouristsight
the flash countsight
the tuning forksound
the barkeepspace
the arrowheadsspace
the surveyorspace
the inner clocktime
the metronometime
the memory palacemind
the fair sharemind
the tightropebalance
the steady handbalance
the tickerbody
the flashbulbbody

pass the phone

most of it is better with someone else in the room. hand the phone over, let them play, and tell the app it wasn't you — their run goes on their own card, not yours. send it to them afterwards and it lands in their app. they don't need an account, and they don't need the app installed to open the link.

pistachio is not a medical device. nothing it measures diagnoses anything, and a low score is not a symptom. if something here worries you, talk to a doctor rather than to a phone.