Speed quiz
Stroop test: colour or word?
A colour word appears in the ink of a different colour. Sometimes you are asked for the word, sometimes for the ink. Thirty prompts, one minute.
- Format
- Colour or word
- Items
- 30 prompts
- Limit
- 1:00
- Level
- Medium
- Checked
- 2026.10.03
Today's first round is the same sequence for everyone.
- Prompts
- 30
- Time limit
- 1:00
- Asked for
- The word or the ink, as each prompt says
- A miss
- Is counted; the round goes on
- A colour word appears, printed in the ink of a different colour. Pick the word, or the ink, as the prompt asks.
- Every colour has its own shape, shown beside its ink, so you can play without telling the colours apart.
- Keyboard: 1 to 4 pick an option. Your mean reaction time is in the result.
- Pause whenever you like (Esc). The board hides while the clock is stopped.
Pick the word or the ink, as each prompt asks. The first prompt appears when you start.
About this quiz
In a Stroop test the word and its ink disagree: the word red printed in blue. Naming the ink is slower and more error prone than reading the word, because reading happens whether you want it to or not.
- Half of the prompts ask for the word and half for the ink, in a shuffled order, so you cannot settle into one habit.
- Every colour has a shape of its own (red is a circle, blue a square, green a triangle, orange a diamond, purple a star, pink a cross), shown beside the ink, so the test can be played without telling the colours apart.
- The result gives your mean reaction time, and today's first round is the same sequence for everyone, so results can be compared.
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