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- A 3×3 grid with one piece missing. Find the rule, pick the piece.
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- Shapes in balance. Work out what goes on the empty pan.
In development · iPhone · Android
Spectriq is a set of puzzles without words — patterns, 3D blocks, sequences to remember, symbols to spot against the clock. At the end you see how you did in four areas, compared with people your age, instead of a single score.
For entertainment. Spectriq is a game of puzzles, not a medical, psychological or clinical assessment. What that means
Better than 78% of people your age
Strongest: turning shapes in your head. Roughly IQ 108–118 — a playful estimate, not a clinical assessment.
No words, no trivia, nothing to translate — so the test works the same in any language and any country. Every puzzle is generated by the app from rules, which also means you can't learn the answers by heart.
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Four puzzles, one from each area, and an overall result.
All eight puzzles and the complete four-area profile.
Shorter, bigger buttons, breaks between blocks. The parent sees strengths — no IQ number.
The main screen shows the four areas side by side, which ones stand out, and a percentile — “better than 78% of people your age”. That says more than any single number, and it is easier to read honestly.
Age matters: memory and speed peak at different ages than reasoning does, so you are always compared with your own age group.
If you want it, there is an IQ-style figure too — shown as a range, like 108–118, never as one exact number, because a test on a phone can't be that precise.
The app measures each answer to the millisecond and checks your phone's touch delay at the start, so a slow screen doesn't count against you.
To say “better than 78% of people your age”, the app needs to know how people of each age usually do. We build those comparison tables — the norms — from open scientific sources.
Published studies
Open-access papers that report average scores by age for memory, speed and reasoning tasks like ours — sequences of digits, light-up squares, symbol coding, pattern grids, rotation.
Public datasets
Large public-domain datasets such as the U.S. CDC's NHANES health survey, which includes a timed symbol-coding task, recalculated by us.
Population statistics
Age, sex and education figures from the UN, the World Bank, Eurostat and national censuses, used to balance the sample so it looks like the real population.
We use the published figures, never the questions of other tests: every puzzle in Spectriq is our own, generated from rules. Over time, people who choose to share their results anonymously help adjust the norms to the phone format. Each result shows which version of the norms it was calculated with.
Spectriq is built on published science, but it is a game, not an instrument. It has not been clinically validated, and it is not a medical, psychological, educational or professional assessment of any kind.
Your result can move with sleep, mood, a noisy room or a small screen. Treat it as a fun snapshot — not as a diagnosis, and not as a reason to make decisions about yourself, your child, your studies or anyone's job. If you have real concerns about memory, attention or development, talk to a qualified specialist.
Spectriq is being built right now. The buttons below will work once the app is in the stores. Want to try an early version? Write to [email protected].