The catalogue
Pick something to find out about yourself.
Every one of these is free, and takes under a minute. Most are measured rather than asked — what you actually did, not what you say you would do.
Sides
The arguments everyone has already had.
Toilet paper: over the roll, or under?
Where this comes fromIs a hot dog a sandwich?
Where this comes fromIs pineapple on pizza good?
Sock shoe sock shoe, or sock sock shoe shoe?
- Sides
Your favourite topping
Twenty-three to choose from. A quarter of people reach for the same one.
5 responses How do you feel about ketchup on eggs?
Is chili more of a soup, or a stew?
Do you cut a sandwich in half vertically, or diagonally?
Do you eat the crust of your pizza?
Where this comes fromIs a hamburger a sandwich?
Is cole slaw a salad?
Brownie from the edge of the pan, or the middle?
Should you rinse rice before cooking it?
Does cilantro taste like soap to you?
Where this comes fromHow many holes does a drinking straw have?
Do you take your shoes off in someone else's house?
Do you make your bed every morning?
Cutlery in the dishwasher: handles up, or handles down?
Do you put the lid down when you flush?
A ship has every plank replaced, one at a time, until nothing original remains. Is it the same ship?
Free will
Things you think you chose. You did not.
Pick a number between 1 and 10.
- Free will
Think of a vegetable
Keep it in your head. We already know what it is.
16 responses Name a playing card.
- Free will
Name a colour
The first one that comes to mind. Six in ten people say the same one.
15 responses - Free will
Be random
Nobody can fake randomness. The interesting part is which way you fail.
12 responsesearly - Free will
Scatter twenty dots
Place them at random. Real randomness clumps far more than feels right.
10 responsesearly - Free will
Think of a piece of furniture
Another free choice that turns out not to be free. Two answers take seven in ten.
9 responses - Free will
Name a liquid
The hardest anyone has ever been forced. Nine in ten give the same answer.
3 responses - Free will
Name a vehicle
There are hundreds. Seven in ten people reach for the same one.
4 responses - Free will
Name a tool
A whole workshop to choose from, and six in ten pick it up first.
4 responses - Free will
Name a fruit
You did not weigh it up. You said the one everybody says.
4 responses - Free will
Name a flower
Half of everyone lands on the same one, and it is not close.
4 responses - Free will
Name something green
An open question with an obvious answer you did not know you had.
4 responses - Free will
Name a job
The loosest question here, and still four in ten agree.
4 responses Pick a shape, first one that comes to mind.
Name an animal.
- Free will
Finish the sentence
One word, freely chosen, and four in ten people choose the same one.
8 responses
Your senses
Decisions your eyes and ears make before you get a vote.
- Your senses
Where does 7 go?
You will put it in the wrong place. Everyone does, by a measurable amount.
13 responsesearly - Your senses
How much do illusions fool you?
You have seen this illusion before. You have never been told your number.
13 responsesearly - Your senses
Sixty seconds
Most people lose several seconds. Find out which way you drift.
6 responsesearly - Your senses
Where blue becomes green
There is a point where green becomes blue, and no two people agree on it.
9 responsesearly - Your senses
Cut it in half
One click. Your eye is measurably worse at this than you believe.
10 responsesearly - Your senses
Your natural tempo
Everyone has a tempo they reach for unprompted. Almost nobody knows theirs.
7 responsesearly - Your senses
How many dots
Under a second on screen, far too many to count. Guess anyway.
9 responsesearly - Your senses
How fine is your ear?
Two tones, closer and closer together. Most people give up around a fifth of a semitone.
4 responses - Your senses
Draw a perfect circle
One stroke, no lifting. Almost nobody gets above 90.
10 responsesearly - Your senses
Spot the odd colour
Four patches, one is different. It gets harder every time you are right.
10 responsesearly - Your senses
The ugliest rectangle
Ten shapes, same area, asked in 1876. Half of everyone picks one of the same two.
3 responsesearly One of these shapes is called bouba and the other is called kiki. Which one is bouba?
- Your senses
Order the blues and greens
Eight hues in a narrow band. Sorting them is harder than it looks, and the score is real.
5 responsesearly - Your senses
Which centre is larger?
The circles around an object change how large it looks. Adjust one centre until your eyes say the two match.
5 responsesearly
How you think
You would swear you reasoned this through.
- How you think
Two thirds of the average
Your answer reveals exactly how many steps ahead you were thinking.
12 responsesearly - How you think
The least you would accept
Refuse and you both get nothing. Where you draw the line says a lot.
12 responsesearly - How you think
How sure are you?
Six questions, and a range you are 90% sure about. Most people are far too confident.
4 responsesearly - How you think
Leave it alone for twenty years
£100 at 10% a year. Almost everyone answers as if interest never earns interest.
3 responsesearly - How you think
Two people, one birthday
How big does a room have to get? The real answer is far smaller than it feels.
5 responses - How you think
A thousand coin flips
Large samples cling to the middle far harder than anyone expects.
4 responsesearly - How you think
Now or later
What a year of waiting is worth to you, found by narrowing it down four times.
4 responsesearly - How you think
Are you above average?
Five questions about yourself. The arithmetic will not let all of us be right.
3 responsesearly - How you think
Split the windfall
Free money, and a stranger who will never know what you did. Most people keep it all.
4 responsesearly - How you think
Three trick questions
Each one has an answer that leaps out at you. Each one is wrong.
2 responses - How you think
Which is more likely?
One of these cannot be likelier than the other. Most people pick it anyway.
6 responses - How you think
Six hundred lives
Two programs, the same expected outcome. Almost nobody is indifferent.
5 responses Three doors. You pick one. The host, who knows where the prize is, opens a different door to show it is empty, then offers you the swap. Do you take it?
A roulette wheel has landed on red five times running. The wheel is fair. Where do you put your money?
A runaway tram will kill five people. You can pull a lever to divert it onto a track where it will kill one. Do you pull it?
A runaway tram will kill five people. The only way to stop it is to push the large stranger beside you off the bridge and into its path. Do you push him?
The copy has all your memories and cannot tell anything happened. Did you travel, or did you die and a stranger woke up?
- How you think
What you would give a stranger
Six splits between you and someone you will never meet. They add up to one number.
6 responsesearly - How you think
Which cards must turn over?
Four cards and one simple rule. Pick only the cards that can prove the rule wrong.
4 responsesearly
Your memory
Things you would swear you remember.
- Your memory
Where is the K?
You type on it every day. Point at one key without looking.
10 responsesearly - Your memory
Which bicycle would work?
You have ridden one for years. Most people still cannot pick the one that functions.
4 responsesearly - Your memory
Do you remember this word?
Read fifteen words. Then answer one question about a word that was never there.
2 responsesearly - Your memory
The other number pad
Two layouts, mirror images, both in daily use. You know one far better than you think.
3 responsesearly - Your memory
How far north is Rome?
Mental maps quietly slide continents around. This one is off by more than you would guess.
4 responsesearly - Your memory
Which g is real?
You have read this letter a million times. Almost nobody can pick it out of four.
8 responsesearly - Your memory
Where does Q sit?
You know the alphabet as a song, not as twenty-six positions. It shows.
7 responsesearly - Your memory
Pairs
Twelve cards, six pairs, five seconds to remember where they are. How many misses will it take to clear the board?
5 responsesearly - Your memory
Follow the path
Nine tiles, one path, and no clues once it disappears. How long a sequence can you put back?
2 responsesearly - Your memory
The disappearing number
A number appears, vanishes, and grows by one digit each round. How many digits stay in your head?
2 responsesearly - Your memory
Word partners
Six unrelated word pairs, a short distraction, then one half goes missing. How many partners can you recover?
2 responsesearly
Instinct
Faster than thought, and completely out of your hands.
- Instinct
Reaction time
The number everyone thinks they already know about themselves.
7 responses - Instinct
Your own pulse
Guess how fast your heart is going, then find it and count. Almost nobody is close.
1 responseearly - Instinct
Snap
Two symbols appear. React only when they match. This is recognition speed, not merely clicking when a light changes.
4 responsesearly - Instinct
Finger sprint
Alternate between two targets for 20 seconds. Speed only counts while the rhythm stays accurate.
2 responsesearly
The world
What you think is happening to the planet, and what is.
In the last 20 years the proportion of people living in extreme poverty, worldwide, has...?
Where this comes fromHow many of the world's 1-year-old children today have been vaccinated against some disease?
How did the number of deaths per year from natural disasters change over the last hundred years?
Where does the majority of the world population live?
Worldwide, 30 year old men have spent 10 years in school, on average. How many years have women of the same age spent in school?
The United Nations predicts that by 2100 the world population will have increased by another 4 billion people. What is the main reason?
In all low income countries across the world today, how many girls finish primary school?
There are two billion children in the world today, aged 0 to 15 years old. How many children will there be in the year 2100 according to the United Nations?
How many people in the world have some access to electricity?
What is the life expectancy of the world population?
Tigers, Giant Pandas and Black Rhinos were listed as threatened species in 1996. Since then, have any of these species become more critically endangered?
Twenty years ago women held a total of 11.5% of parliamentary seats in countries around the world. What percentage do you think they hold today?
What percentage of the adults in the world today are literate - can read and write?
All things considered, do you think the world is getting better or worse, or neither getting better nor worse?
Open questions
Nothing to play. A question, your answer, and everyone else's.
Does the Monopoly man wear a monocle?
Does Pikachu's tail have a black tip?
Is C-3PO gold all over?
How does the queen in Snow White address the mirror?
What does Darth Vader actually say?
How the scoring works
- 01
Answer it. Under a minute, no account, no setup. Most are measured while you play. The short ones are a single question, tapped straight from this list.
- 02
See the whole crowd. Your result plotted against everyone else’s, with the number of responses behind it stated plainly.
- 03
Watch your Averageness move. One score across everything you have played, updated after each one.