Sequence Memory Test: Repeat the Pattern
Tiles light up in order; repeat the sequence by clicking. Every level adds one step. One wrong tile ends the run. Most people top out between 8 and 12.
What Sequence Memory Measures
This task loads your visuospatial sketchpad — the working-memory subsystem that stores locations and movements — plus the ordering machinery that keeps "where" bound to "when." It's the online descendant of the Corsi block-tapping task, used in neuropsychology since the 1970s to assess spatial working memory, and a cousin of the Digit Span subtest that professional IQ tests use for the verbal equivalent.
Spatial and verbal working memory are partly independent: plenty of people crush this test and struggle with digit recall, or vice versa. Comparing your percentiles across both is a genuinely informative mini-profile — and the full picture comes from the complete test, which samples five domains.
Sequence Memory Benchmarks
- 5 or fewer — below typical; attention or unfamiliarity, retest
- 6–7 — slightly below the online average
- 8–12 — the normal plateau for most people
- 13–19 — excellent; strong chunking at work
- 20+ — rare territory, top ~1%
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May 10, 2026
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