How Old Is Your Brain?
July 24th, 2008 by HeywoodFind out with decent accuracy (it worked for me, at least) the “age” of your brain with this cool applet from FlashFabrica. Just memorize the position of each number and then after they dissappear, click the circles in order from lowest number to highest. Fortunately, there is no need to brush up on your Chinese language skillz to play.
July 24th, 2008 at 1:18 pm
OMG that is absolutely amazing – RIGHT ON with my age!
(better than david blaine heheheh)
July 24th, 2008 at 2:58 pm
heywood, you are QUICK – you must have caught me right in the middle of the edit as i did credit you and blogadilla, check it out again. (yeah blogzillas cool too heheh)
July 25th, 2008 at 10:22 am
I got a 20. Is it supposed to be correlated to your “real” age? in which case I freakin ROCK cuz I’m 37! hehehehe
July 28th, 2008 at 2:34 am
My brain is 27…. but I’ve been drinking. What does that mean?!
August 25th, 2009 at 1:59 pm
I don’t see how this can be all that accurate. It’s not just based on mental acuity. For one thing, the physical limitations of the human eye are such that we can only resolve things like letters and digits when their images fall within the macula (central area) of the retina, and especially within the fovea centralis.
Thus, how widely spaced the digits are is a factor (you can more easily handle seven or so digits if they’re close together than you could four or five if they were widely spaced), and this can be affected by such things not only as the randomness of the software itself, but also the resolution of your monitor (higher resolutions make the whole image smaller and thus more likely to fit within your macula if you focus on the center), distance from head to screen (further distance means smaller image in the retina), etc.
Obviously, people with macular degeneration (partial or complete blindness in just the central, sharper portion of vision) would be handicapped in this test for reasons that have little or nothing to do with brain acuity. Macular degeneration often progresses with age which can of course appear to correspond with the test yet wouldn’t truly indicate age of the BRAIN — but it can also happen as a result of glaucoma, diabetic retinopathy, etc.
On the other end of the scale, people with tunnel vision (the reverse of macular degeneration), if using a low resolution monitor setting or are close to the monitor, might not even see digits close to the horizontal edges, let alone corners.