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Pymetrics faces game practice

Game 10 of 12 · about 3 min

A photograph of a face and ten emotion words. Pick the one that fits before the clock on that face runs out. Some faces come with a one-line story, and the story can pull against the expression.

Emotion recognition Context weighing Decisiveness

Unofficial practice. Not the real Pymetrics game and not connected to Pymetrics, Harver or any employer. No overall clock, but each face has its own timer, unlimited retries, nothing saved and nothing sent anywhere.

How the Pymetrics faces game works

  1. A face appears with ten emotion words below it. Tap the word that best fits, or press keys 1 to 9 and 0.
  2. A face on its own gives you 7 seconds. The bar under the photo is that face's clock.
  3. A face with a short story gives you 30 seconds, because you are weighing two things at once.
  4. When the story and the expression seem to disagree, pick the emotion consistent with both. That tension is deliberate.
  5. Run out of time and the game simply moves on. 14 faces and the run is over.

What the faces game measures

It reads how accurately you name what a face is showing, and separately, how you do when a situation is layered on top. Reading a face and weighing a face against a story are different skills, and the split between them is the most telling number this game produces.

Or play all 12 in one sitting

This page is the faces 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.

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About the Pymetrics faces game

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

No. The faces on this page are AI-generated to a written brief, and the answer key is our label for each image, checked by people before it shipped. The real assessment uses its own photo set, which is not public. What carries over is the task itself: one face, a list of words, a short clock.
Here, a correct answer is one that matches our label, and most people miss a few. In the real assessment there is no published pass mark. Employers compare your pattern against people already doing the job, so chasing a perfect score is preparing for a test that is not being set.
Neither on its own. Every prep source describes the same trap: the story sometimes cuts against the first read of the expression, and the expected answer is the emotion that fits both at once. Wide eyes and an open mouth above a story about winning the lottery is surprise, not fear.
Published preparation guides for the real assessment, which consistently report around 7 seconds for a photo on its own and 30 when a story is attached. The count of 14 faces comes from the same guides, though fewer of them state it, so treat it as the best-supported estimate rather than an official figure.
Because they are. Fear and surprise share wide eyes and a dropped jaw, anger and disgust share a lowered brow. Those pairs are the classic confusions in emotion research, and this set includes them on purpose. Learning which pair fools you is most of what practice here can teach.

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.