🔄 Twist It
Your mind's eye for shapes. About 1½ minutes.
Is it the same shape turned around, or a mirror image?
About 1½ minutes. The first 3 are practice. Then you get 60 seconds. Right answers add a point, mistakes take one off.
Why does this happen?
To answer, most people picture one shape turning in their head until it lines up with the other. Then they check whether it matches or is flipped.
That imagined turning takes time, just like turning a real object. The further a shape is turned, the longer people usually take. Scientists call this mental rotation.
It's a skill you use when reading a map upside down, packing a car boot or putting flat-pack furniture together. It gets quicker with practice.
How it's measured
You get 3 practice pairs, then 60 seconds. Each pair shows a shape and a copy turned by 0 to 300 degrees. Half the time the copy is also flipped over, like a mirror image.
Your score is how many you get right in the 60 seconds, minus how many you get wrong. Wrong answers take a point off, so guessing doesn't help.
"Extra time per turn" is how much longer you took, on average, for each extra 60 degrees of turn, using only the ones you got right.
Your results and history are saved in this browser. Each finished score is also sent to us anonymously (just the game, the score and whether you used a phone or a computer; no name, no account) so everyone can see how they compare. Just for fun: not a medical, IQ or hiring test.
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