Flash Recall — Test Your Visual Short-Term Memory
Catch the A/E sequence before it disappears.
- Working memory
- 3 min
- Medium
A short letter sequence appears all at once and vanishes. Rebuild it in the same order while each level adds another character and reduces the viewing time.
Play Flash RecallHow it works
1The complete sequence appears in one brief visual display.
2It vanishes before you can keep rereading it.
3Enter A and E in the same order. Length rises as time falls.
How to play
- 1
Take one snapshot
An A/E sequence appears together in the center of an otherwise empty field.
- 2
Hold the order
The sequence vanishes after a brief exposure. Re-enter every character in exactly the same order.
- 3
Adapt to the load
Two correct recalls move you up. Higher levels add characters and shorten the exposure.
What it trains
Hold and update information while under load. Brief displays leave a rapidly fading visual trace; exact-order recall then adds short-term working-memory demand.
- Brain area
- Visual association cortex + prefrontal working-memory network
- Based on
- Sperling, 1960; Luck & Vogel, 1997
Leaderboard
Weekly season resets every Monday. Scores show as Lvl 5.
Leaderboard
Questions
What does Flash Recall measure?
It combines brief visual exposure with immediate serial recall, so performance depends on visual encoding, attention and short-term order memory.
Is this a photographic-memory test?
No. It is a task-specific visual-memory exercise and does not diagnose or promise photographic memory.
Why do later levels disappear faster?
Shorter exposure limits repeated reading, while longer sequences increase how much ordered information must be retained.
