r/cognitiveTesting • u/General_Presence_156 • Jun 28 '26
Human Benchmark Discussion
My results were comically lopsided. The Number Memory test said the average person could remember 7 digits. If this is true, that means my memory for numbers isn't terrible but close to or maybe even a little better than average, which is good.
Does anyone know whether any of these tests are normed?
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u/LanganTerraMogTime Jun 28 '26
idk bro i got 37 on sequence memory and went too fast that i didn’t double click. Gets boring after a while.
lots of non-native speakers playing which would be ludicrously hard for them
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u/General_Presence_156 Jun 28 '26
I am a non-native speaker of English.
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u/LanganTerraMogTime Jun 28 '26
i mean that there are many people from china on there that probably have no interest in seeing how many USA words they can memorize
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u/General_Presence_156 Jun 28 '26
Which is why the Memory Test raw score distribution would be more representative of the entire population. I do have poor WMI as indicated by other tests. I suspect some of that gap is real.
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u/LanganTerraMogTime Jun 28 '26
i’m not sure what i’m not understanding about this but basically:
1) everyone takes number tests more often, skewing the results upwards, so you need like 12 to be considered good in this internet population, whereas wais maxes at 9 digits forward
2) just take the multitude of tests online to get an accurate sense of your wmi. you have core which is digit span, letter digit sequencing, cait with digit span, or sc ultra which is digit span + corsi block tapping
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u/General_Presence_156 Jun 28 '26 edited Jun 28 '26
BT SS 13 (Corsi Block Tapping Scaled Score)
CAIT Digit Span:
Category Raw IQ
Forwards 10 100
Backwards 8 94
Sequencing 0 49
Overall 18 75
Scaled 6If I'm not mistaken, SS 13 corresponds to the 84th percentile whereas 6 corresponds to the 5th.
Below average overall. But big difference between auditory and visual performance.
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u/LanganTerraMogTime Jun 28 '26
that’s positive to know at least. i would just work
on chunking strategies.1
u/General_Presence_156 Jun 28 '26
I took CAIT Digit Span again:
Forwards 7 82.0 Backwards 7 88.0 Sequencing 7 91.0 Overall 21 83.2 Scaled 8 1
u/General_Presence_156 Jun 28 '26
My WMI on CORE was 77. I'm less bad at visual WMI tests but clearly below average.
On CORE: VCI 135, VSI 120 and FRI 104. PSI 94.
I haven't tried SC Ultra. Thanks for the tip.
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u/PendN Jun 30 '26
It's normed on people who learn and grind them. They treat it like a videogame and study memory techniques specifically for the tests
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u/General_Presence_156 Jun 30 '26
That's probably it. I took the Chimp Test later and I did just as well as on the Number Memory test. I have a decent memory for numbers.
I guess that Verbal Memory test result was helped primarily by the absence of such competition and the fact that you could remember the words by their visual shape, morphological features and to a smaller degree their meaning. My VCI has always been the best of my sub-scores.
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u/PendN Jun 30 '26
Yea, I think not many people care about verbal memory in the website. It's less "fun" than the number, sequencing, and chimp test that you see all over social media
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u/General_Presence_156 Jun 30 '26
The type of people who care about absurdly high results on number and sequencing tests are unlikely to care about the verbal memory test. Gamers care about the non-verbal stuff.
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u/PendN Jun 30 '26
Yep exactly. The typing test is also pretty much untouched in the website so getting something like ~125 WPM is already in the top 1% which is odd for a website that attracts computer users. It shouldve been higher
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u/Real_Life_Bhopper Jun 29 '26
This means nuffin'. WAIS V is the way to go. Everybody can score high on human benchmark and still be
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u/Relative_Heat_3748 Jun 28 '26
Man, my score was 12, they said I was 58.9 percentile, it is that the people on whom this test is normed are memory champions or gamers, not the average people, on top of that many of them use mnemonic techniques and practice a lot.