🧠 Face Memory Test

What this test measures: how well you can learn unfamiliar faces and recognize those same people again afterward. Recognition answers are untimed so the standard test stays focused on memory rather than response speed.

Faces and Face Sets: choose 5 or 10 faces. Face Sets are marked Fresh until any group inside them has been studied before. Random chooses from all currently available Face Sets.

Study modes: One by One gives every face the same fixed exposure. All Together shows all target faces at once and gives you one total study period, so you decide which faces deserve more attention.

Study phase: after a 3–2–1 countdown, study the faces until the selected study time ends.

Recognition phase: faces appear one at a time, mixed with people you never studied. Choose Target or Not Target. Recognition is untimed by default; an optional time limit is available under Advanced Settings when answers are locked.

Difficulty levels:

• Easy: studied people reappear in the exact photo you memorized, and new faces are unrelated
• Medium: studied people may reappear in the same photo or a different photo, and new faces are unrelated
• Hard: studied people reappear only in different photos, and some new faces are deliberate lookalikes of people you studied
• Super Hard: different photos, heavier use of lookalikes, and wider variation in how often studied people appear make the trial mix less predictable

How the score works:

• Hits: studied faces you correctly marked as Target
• Correct rejections: new faces you correctly marked as Not Target
• Misses: target faces you marked as Not Target
• False alarms: non-target faces you marked as Target
• Face Memory Score: a chance-adjusted score using both recognition of studied people and correct rejection of new people. One-sided guessing scores 0

Tips:

• Focus on facial structure such as face shape, eye spacing, brow line, nose, mouth, and jaw
• Compare repeat sessions that used the same number of faces, study mode, study time, difficulty, Recognition Trials, answer-review setting, and Recognition Time Limit
• Target frequency varies between runs at every difficulty; Super Hard varies it more widely

Note: This is an informal self-assessment for interest and practice, not a clinical assessment. It also works well as a repeatable face memory game challenge. All faces are computer generated and are not real people.