Speed28 min

Split Second

Twelve questions, a few seconds each. Think fast or do not think at all.

Twelve questions and a clock that drains while you read. Most of them you could answer in your sleep given a minute; the game is that you do not get a minute.

The clock is set per question rather than fixed, so a long word problem gets longer than a two-word comparison. Running out of time scores the same as getting it wrong, which is the honest way to treat it.

Being right matters more than being quick. A correct answer near the buzzer still beats a fast wrong one, comfortably.

How it works

Read, decide, tap. The bar across the top is your time for that round.
Longer questions get longer clocks. You are never given three seconds to read four sentences.
Correctness carries most of the score; speed is the rest of it.
Twelve rounds drawn from a pool of eighty-four, so playing again is a different game.

Common questions

The timer felt unfair on one question. Is it the same for all of them?: No, and it used to be, which was the problem. Each round now gets a clock worked out from how much there is to read — the question plus every option — so a four-option word problem gets around nine seconds and a two-word comparison gets around two and a half. If a round still felt short, that is worth knowing; the formula is in the manifest and can be adjusted.
Does answering faster score more?: A little. A correct answer scores at least 60 out of 100 however slowly it lands, and speed adds the rest. A wrong answer scores nothing regardless of how fast it was. Guessing early is therefore always worse than thinking and answering late.
What happens if I run out of time?: The round ends and scores zero, the same as a wrong answer. You still see the answer and the explanation before moving on — the point is to know, not just to be scored.
Are the questions always the same?: No. Twelve are drawn from a pool of eighty-four each time. If you share a result, the link carries which twelve you got, so whoever opens it plays your exact run.

This measures how you handle a question under a small amount of pressure, on whatever device and connection you happen to have. It is not a test of intelligence or of reaction time in any clinical sense — a phone that stutters costs you a tenth of a second and there is nothing the game can do about that. Play it for the pressure, not for the number.

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How it works

Read, decide, tap. The bar across the top is your time for that round.

Longer questions get longer clocks. You are never given three seconds to read four sentences.

Correctness carries most of the score; speed is the rest of it.

Twelve rounds drawn from a pool of eighty-four, so playing again is a different game.

Common questions

The timer felt unfair on one question. Is it the same for all of them?

No, and it used to be, which was the problem. Each round now gets a clock worked out from how much there is to read — the question plus every option — so a four-option word problem gets around nine seconds and a two-word comparison gets around two and a half. If a round still felt short, that is worth knowing; the formula is in the manifest and can be adjusted.

Does answering faster score more?

A little. A correct answer scores at least 60 out of 100 however slowly it lands, and speed adds the rest. A wrong answer scores nothing regardless of how fast it was. Guessing early is therefore always worse than thinking and answering late.

What happens if I run out of time?

The round ends and scores zero, the same as a wrong answer. You still see the answer and the explanation before moving on — the point is to know, not just to be scored.

Are the questions always the same?

No. Twelve are drawn from a pool of eighty-four each time. If you share a result, the link carries which twelve you got, so whoever opens it plays your exact run.