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Pymetrics arrows game practice

Game 3 of 12 · about 3 min

Five arrows appear. The colour tells you which one to answer. Blue means the middle arrow, red means the outer ones. The rule changes without warning.

Learning Attention Adaptivity

Unofficial practice. Not the real Pymetrics game and not connected to Pymetrics, Harver or any employer. Untimed, unlimited retries, nothing saved and nothing sent anywhere.

How the Pymetrics arrows game works

  1. Blue arrows: answer the direction of the middle arrow.
  2. Red arrows: answer the direction of the outer arrows.
  3. The outer arrows often point the opposite way to the middle one. That is the point.
  4. Respond with the left and right arrow keys, or the buttons below.
  5. Nothing rushes you through a set. It waits until you answer.
  6. But the three-minute clock never stops, so a long pause costs you sets at the end.
  7. The rule switches partway through and you are not told when.

What the arrows game measures

It reads how quickly you notice the rule has changed and stop applying the old one. Raw speed matters far less than how many trials you waste after a switch.

Or play all 12 in one sitting

This page is the arrows game on its own, practice only. The full run is the rehearsal. All 12 back to back in the order the real assessment most commonly uses them, timed, one attempt each, and no feedback until the end. About 35 minutes, and nothing is saved, so it needs one sitting.

Take the full timed run

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About the Pymetrics arrows game

Answered straight, including the parts people would rather hear differently.

Only in part. Answering fast while applying the wrong rule scores worse than answering a little slower and correctly. The speed pressure is not per set, it is cumulative: nothing pushes you off a single set, but every second you spend deliberating is a second the last few sets do not get.
The real assessment runs 135 sets inside a three-minute limit, which works out at roughly 1.3 seconds each including the gap between sets. No individual set is timed out, so getting through all 135 is itself part of the test. Practice here is a shorter 45 sets with no clock, so you can feel a rule switch without racing one.
Because the interference is the measurement. Half the sets agree and half disagree, and the gap between how fast you answer each is a number the assessment reads. Sets where everything points the same way are the easy half by design.
Some are expected. Nobody adapts instantly, and a run with zero adjustment cost would look stranger than one with a few. What is read is how long the adjustment takes.

Pymetrics and Harver are trademarks of their respective owners and are not affiliated with OpenThinkr. Practice results are for interest and self-reflection, not assessment.