MindSharpSix quick games for memory, patterns, mental math, words, shapes and attention, each timed and levelled, with a daily session, day streaks, skill levels, a seven-day chart and fifteen badges. Your scores stay in your browser: nothing is uploaded.
Three games in a row, about five minutes. Each one is timed, scored and levelled, and your streak grows with every day you play.
Download your levels, bests, streaks, badges and the last fifty games as one file, for a backup or to carry them to another computer. Import is under Settings.
Scores, levels, streaks, badges and these settings are kept in this browser only.
The button at the top of the dashboard picks three of the six games at random and plays them one after another, about five minutes in all. A countdown of three seconds leads into each game, and the result window between games shows the score, the accuracy and the level reached.
The Games tab lists the six games with your best score on each. Click one to play it alone, or tick the skills you want to work on and start a custom session of three games drawn from those. Each game explains itself in one line at the top; answers are taps, number pads or typed words.
Every game runs for the time set in Settings, one minute by default. A correct answer scores ten points times the level; a wrong one costs nothing but time. In adaptive mode the level rises by one every five correct answers, and the timer turns amber at twenty seconds and red at ten.
The score of each game goes into that skill's experience points; every hundred points is a level, shown as a bar on the dashboard. The overall level is the average of the six. Progress keeps your personal bests, the last ten games and a chart of the points you scored on each of the last seven days.
Finish at least one game a day and the streak in the toolbar grows; miss a day and it starts again from one. The best streak is kept. Badges unlock for your first game, five, ten, twenty-five and fifty games, three- and seven-day streaks, level five in each skill, level three in all six, and a single-game score of five hundred.
Export writes everything to one file; Import under Settings reads it back on another browser or computer; Reset all data deletes it. Settings also holds the sound switch, the difficulty (Easy, Medium, Hard or Adaptive) and the time per game, from thirty seconds to two minutes.
There is no account, no leaderboard and no server. Your levels, streaks, badges and the record of your last fifty games live in your browser's storage on your own device, and the only copy that leaves it is the file you export yourself.
A session is three one-minute games with a countdown between them. It fits a coffee break, a train ride or the minute before a meeting, on a laptop or a phone, and the streak gives a reason to come back tomorrow.
In adaptive mode each game starts at that skill's current level and climbs every five correct answers, so an easy skill gets harder quickly and a weak one stays within reach. Prefer a fixed challenge? Easy, Medium and Hard set the level outright.
Memory asks you to hold a sequence, Pattern to spot a rule, Math to calculate, Word to recombine letters, Spatial to rotate a shape in your head and Attention to search without being fooled by look-alikes. A session mixes them so no single trick carries you.
Skill bars, an overall level, personal bests, a seven-day chart of points and the last ten games with their accuracy. Fifteen badges mark the milestones, from the first game to fifty games and a week-long streak.
Brain games make you better at brain games, and some of that carries to similar tasks. MindSharp promises a measurable daily workout for memory, arithmetic, attention and quick thinking, and a little fun, not a higher IQ or protection against anything.
Cells on a grid light up one after another; when they stop, you tap them back in the same order. The grid starts at three by three with a sequence of four and grows to five by five with nine steps. It works the short-term memory you use to hold a phone number or a list of instructions in mind.
Four numbers are shown and the fifth is missing. The rule is a constant step, a constant multiplier or the sum of the previous two, and the four choices lie close to the answer so you have to work the rule out rather than guess. The step grows with the level.
Addition and subtraction with numbers up to twenty at the first levels, multiplication and numbers up to fifty from level three, and up to a hundred from level five. Type the answer and press Enter; the number keyboard opens on a phone.
The letters of a word are shuffled and you type the word. Three-letter words at the start, five-letter ones from level three and words of six to nine letters from level five. It exercises vocabulary and the speed with which you recombine pieces into a whole.
A shape is shown turned by a quarter, a half or three quarters, and you pick the one of four copies that sits at exactly the same angle. The shapes are chosen so that a rotation changes how they look; it is the skill of mentally turning a map or a part.
A grid of symbols hides three to six copies of one target among look-alikes, and you tap every copy. The grid grows from four by four to seven by seven with the level. A wrong tap is marked and counted against your accuracy, so it rewards careful looking over fast clicking.
What practice does. Do a task every day and you get better at it. That is as true of unscrambling words and holding a sequence in mind as of a musical instrument, and MindSharp measures it: your level in each skill climbs, your best scores rise and the games that felt hard become routine. Some of that gain carries to tasks that use the same mechanics, such as remembering a short list after practising sequences or adding up a bill faster after weeks of mental math.
What the research does not support. Large reviews of commercial brain-training programs have found little evidence that practice on games raises general intelligence, improves everyday memory broadly or slows cognitive decline, and in 2016 one major vendor settled with the United States regulator over exactly such claims. The honest position is the one this page takes: you train the things you practise, the measured improvement is real and satisfying, and the rest is not promised. MindSharp is not a medical product and makes no health claim.
What helps more than any game. If the goal is a sharper mind over years rather than a higher score next week, the evidence points elsewhere: regular physical exercise, sleep, social contact, learning something genuinely new such as a language or an instrument, and controlling blood pressure. A five-minute session here is a good habit and a fun one; it is not a substitute for those.
How to get the most out of it. Keep adaptive difficulty on, so each game sits just above what you find easy, which is where practice pays. Play a mixed session rather than only your favourite game. Treat the timer as a prompt to answer promptly, not to rush: a wrong answer scores nothing and costs a second, so accuracy wins. And look at the seven-day chart now and then rather than at a single game, because scores swing with tiredness and the time of day.
About the scores. Ten points per correct answer times the level means higher levels score faster, so bests mostly reflect how far your level has climbed. Accuracy in the result window is correct answers over attempts, with wrong taps in the attention game counted as attempts. The streak counts calendar days in your own time zone, so a game just before midnight and one just after count as two days.
The honest answer from the research is: you get better at the tasks you practise, and some of that carries to closely related tasks, but there is little evidence that it raises general intelligence or protects against decline. MindSharp is a daily workout for memory, arithmetic, attention and quick thinking that you can measure and enjoy; it is not a medical product and makes no health claim.
Each correct answer scores 10 points times the current level, so a level 3 answer is worth 30. In adaptive mode the level rises by one every five correct answers within a game. The score goes into the skill's experience points at the end; every 100 points is a level, and your best single-game score is kept.
Finishing at least one game on a calendar day. Play on consecutive days and the streak grows; miss a day and it starts again from one on your next game. The best streak is kept for the badges. Days are counted in your own time zone.
In your browser's storage on this device, under the tool's own name: the levels, bests, streaks, the last fifty games, the badges and the settings. Nothing is sent to a server and there is no account. Export writes it all to a file; Import reads it back on another computer; Reset deletes it.
Yes. The games use big tap targets, the math and word games open the right keyboard, and the dashboard stacks one card above the other. A session of three games takes about five minutes.
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