Test yourself with the Stroop effect
RED printed in green — say the ink, not the word. A classic attention test in twenty rounds.
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The job
Reading is automatic — naming ink color means overriding it. The Stroop effect measures that interference: incongruent rounds (word says one color, ink shows another) are reliably slower and error-prone.
Twenty rounds
A color word appears in colored ink; tap the ink's color. About a quarter of rounds are congruent; the rest conflict. The score shows accuracy and mean response time on correct answers.
Worked example
The word RED in green ink: the fast answer 'red' is wrong — the ink is green. Most people run 700–1,200 ms on conflicts and get caught once or twice per twenty.
Where it stops
Device latency is baked into the times — compare yourself across sessions on the same hardware, not to lab norms. It's a demonstration of the effect, not a cognitive assessment.