#1. The Stroop Test: Great brain teaser to challenge your mental vitality and flexibility

70 Comments

1. Bill Wright` on January 8, 2009 at 9:57

   try focus­ing on the last let­ter of each word to see only the actu­al color

   
   
   
2. Kyriakos on February 23, 2009 at 2:56

   I just made my vision blur­ry so I can­not read just see the colors:)

   
   
   
3. maya on February 23, 2009 at 11:32

   woah that was kin­da realy hard. like at first it was eaasy but then i saw how it changed and it was hard for my brain to try and say the right col­or! it was fun though:]

   
   
   
4. Raghu on February 24, 2009 at 10:14

   I was able to cor­rect­ly iden­ti­fy the col­or when start­ed from bottom.

   
   
   
5. pavan on March 28, 2009 at 3:30

   hey anoth­er way of going through eas­i­ly is just look at the col­or, and dont let your brain read the spelling at start. Then you can eas­i­ly go through this. It worked for me!!

   
   
   
6. Bernie on March 29, 2009 at 4:53

   Pos­es no problem
   for those who are
   literate.

   
   
   
7. Bernie on March 29, 2009 at 4:57

   The rest of you are
   fuckwits.

   last word doesn’t
   pass the spellchecker,
   but check:

   http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=fuckwit.

   
   
   
8. Anoop Jayaram on April 2, 2009 at 11:37

   Nice & Sim­ple One! enjoyed it.

   it chal­lenges our brain’s ten­den­cy to scan through words.

   
   
   
9. ardit on April 18, 2009 at 3:29

   it was very easy for me.
   maybe because i was tired and my brain for­got to focus on the mean­ing of the words…
   fun­ny.. the best way is not to try hard

   
   
   
10. Tammy on May 18, 2009 at 11:13

    if you blur your vision its real­ly easy because you cant c the words!

    
    
    
11. Constantina on October 13, 2009 at 6:16

    I pro­gressed through the first two lines and then got mixed up as i went through the oth­er lines. I have to observe the instruc­tions properly.

    
    
    
12. Florence on October 20, 2009 at 12:07

    Read from the bot­tom and it was faster. Con­cen­tra­tion slows down when read from top to bot­tom. Great exer­cise !!! Thanks.

    
    
    
13. Brenda Kane on October 20, 2009 at 7:28

    I cheat­ed and took my glass off! Worked fine and fast.
    I put them back on and it was much more difficult.
    Hope I’m not one that looks but does­n’t see.
    Thanks, fun.

    
    
    
14. Tom on October 21, 2009 at 7:33

    If you need­ed to be lit­er­ate you prob­a­bly did­n’t under­stand the exer­cise. bet you got most of them wrong.

    
    
    
15. Lauren Winters on October 25, 2009 at 3:07

    I have always had my own trick when doing things like this. I just make my sight blur­ry, so all I can see is the col­or shown and not be able to read the word. [:

    
    
    
16. tuaua on October 25, 2009 at 10:29

    I recent­ly done the test in my neu­ropsy­cho­log­i­cal assessment.I had a stroke 2yrs ago. I moved thru test slow­ly, found it hard to focus & con­cen­trate but after I gave it a few go’s I got the hang of it .It’s ide­al for brain train­ing & stim­u­la­tion along with all oth­er brainteasers.

    
    
    
17. Aley Lawrence on November 1, 2009 at 10:47

    I can do it eas­i­ly by blur­ring my vision through nar­row­ing my eyes

    
    
    
18. michelle on November 10, 2009 at 11:41

    it gave me a headache

    
    
    
19. Bob Beaver on November 15, 2009 at 3:55

    A most inter­est­ing exer­cise, par­tic­u­lar­ly as one is con­scious (aware) that the brain is strug­gling against what the eyes see and what the mouth wants to say. I enjoyed the exer­cise, but then again, being an edu­cat­ed Eng­lish­man my brain always fas­ci­nates me.

    
    
    
20. Khalil on November 15, 2009 at 10:57

    Well it was to say sec­ond time. I used a trick, I did not see the com­plete words while say­ing, I just con­cen­trate on the col­or of last alpha­bet of the word, did not look the whole word at all, in just sec­ond attmept the result was 100%..cool
    KA