Practice visual scanning with a Schulte table
Find 1 to 25 in order on a shuffled 5×5 grid, timed. A classic drill for widening your useful field of view.
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The job
A Schulte table asks you to find numbers in order while keeping your eyes near the grid's center — training peripheral awareness instead of serial eye jumps.
Grid, tap in order, score
Pick a grid size 3×3 to 7×7 and start. Tap the numbers in order; mis-taps count as errors. Finish for a total time and per-cell pace.
Worked example
Finishing a 5×5 in 42 s with 3 mis-taps scores 1,680 ms per cell — a reasonable mid-range result. Experienced readers cite sub-2-second cells as a target; times under ~25 s total are brisk.
Scope
Grids 3×3 to 7×7; timer runs start to finish and errors are counted. Times include your device's tap latency — compare yourself to yourself, not to clinical norms.