Brain HQ

I was thinking about signing up for Brain HQ, and then my decision was made when they decided to pull a 50% off Black Friday sale.

I use the app on my iPad and so far have completed a few of the exercises, some more challenging than others. One of them involves showing three butterflies in random positions, two match, and one is the odd one. You have to pick the odd one. And the exercise speeds up so that you have less and less time to see them. Another exercise involves keeping track of a set number of objects even when a bunch more of the same objects are introduced.

This morning’s exercise was the most challenging yet. A variety of two shapes are displayed next to each other and the task is simple: Identify whether the color matches between the shapes. It’s simple in the beginning, but it gets much harder as the time you have to see the shapes and the time you have to respond both decrease.

I’m looking forward to trying out the remaining exercises and tracking my progress as I do some heavy-duty brain training.