Your Focus Index

Focus Index explained

One score for the whole of your training — attention, speed, recall and reasoning rolled into a single number, built only from your own results. It is a measurement of you against yourself, and this page is the whole of what it means.

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142 +6 this week
  • Attention 74
  • Processing speed 81
  • Working memory 69
  • Visual recall 68
  • Pattern logic 77
  • Fluid intelligence 72
The definition

What the Focus Index is

The Focus Index is NEURA’s own training score. It rolls the cognitive domains you train — attention, processing speed, working memory, visual recall and pattern logic — up into one number, so that a scattered week of individual results reads as a single line you can actually follow.

It is computed only from your own results. There is no population sample behind it and no comparison to anybody else: the Focus Index is a trend against yourself, and the only reading that means anything is the direction it travels over weeks. One session can move it. One session does not define it.

It is not an IQ score, and it is not a diagnostic or medical measurement. NEURA publishes no norms, no percentile and no validity claim for the number. What it does honestly is what a training log does: it records the work you actually did, and shows you what changed.

How it is built

A session, six domains, one number

Nothing about the construction is exotic. You train, every task lands in a domain, and the domains are rolled up — the care goes into keeping the tasks fair, not into the arithmetic that follows them.

  1. One session

    A daily session is 20 reasoning tasks, about five minutes. The tasks are picked for you and the difficulty adapts after every answer — too easy and it steps up, too hard and it steps back. No session repeats.

  2. Six domains

    Every task belongs to a cognitive domain — attention, processing speed, working memory, visual recall, pattern logic — and your answers are scored into each domain separately. The games and Practice feed the same domains.

  3. One number

    Those domain results roll up into a single Focus Index. The weighting behind it is not published, and the figure means little on its own: carrying the trend is the entire job.

  1. Session 3

    The index opens

    Your Focus Index stays closed until you have completed three daily sessions — the app counts the progress toward it as x/3. Three sessions is the first point at which a number describes you rather than one afternoon.

  2. From there

    A trend, with a band

    Stats keeps a 14-day trend with a normal-range band drawn around it, plus the per-domain breakdown sitting behind the number. Home carries a shorter 7-day trend tile and the index inside the week ring.

  3. Every week

    A result you can hand over

    The week can be issued as a Focus Index certificate carrying anonymous figures only, and the weekly leaderboard ranks the training for anyone who wants the week to be a contest.

Plainly

What the Focus Index is not

A number this legible invites people to read more into it than it holds. Three things it cannot tell you, stated before you have to ask.

Not an IQ score
Nothing in NEURA is labeled IQ, and the Focus Index is not an IQ score. The daily tasks use classic reasoning formats — matrices, series, analogies, mental rotation — because those are a sound way to build reasoning items, not because the result is an IQ.
Not a diagnosis
The Focus Index is not a medical or diagnostic measurement and says nothing about any condition. If something about your attention or recall genuinely worries you, that is a conversation for a clinician, not for an app.
Not a percentile
We publish no norms, so there is no population figure to place you in and none is shown. The index compares your results with your own earlier results — that is the whole of the comparison.
In the app

Where the number shows up

One deliberate omission: the Beyond Focus surfaces — the Knowledge decks with their spaced repetition, the chess puzzles, and the three puzzle games Color Sort, Switchboard and Block Nest — are played but never scored into the index. They are there to be enjoyed, and what the index measures has to stay the thing it was built to measure.

Try it first

Take the formats in your browser

These run right here — free, and with no account. They work the same domains the index tracks, but a browser run measures one afternoon; the Focus Index is what a month of them adds up to.

Or start from the ability rather than the instrument — Attention Tests, Working Memory Tests and Abstract Reasoning Tests explain what each domain is, how it has been measured, and what a result cannot tell you.

Reaction time Reaction Time Test Wait for the signal — tap target, F1 lights or a beep. 5 rounds, and the median is your number. Take the test Attention Stroop Test Name the ink color, not the word. Measures how much a conflicting word slows you down. Take the test Attention Schulte Table Find 1 to 25 in order on a scrambled grid, against the clock. Take the test Attention Flanker Test Answer the middle arrow, ignore the four beside it. Measures what the conflicting neighbours cost you. Take the test Attention Trail Making Test Connect 1 to 25 against the clock, then do it again alternating numbers and letters. Take the test Working memory N-Back Test Press Match when the letter repeats the one from two steps back. Take the test Working memory Corsi Block Test Repeat a growing sequence of flashing blocks to find your visual span. Take the test Working memory Digit Span Test Digits arrive one a second; type them back, forward or in reverse. Where you stop is your span. Take the test Fluid intelligence Number Series Test Find the rule behind five numbers and name the sixth — twelve series, instant result. Take the test Fluid intelligence Letter Series Test Find the rule behind five letters and name the sixth — twelve series, instant result. Take the test Pattern logic Odd One Out Test Four figures, three following one rule. Find the one that breaks it — twelve puzzles. Take the test Fluid intelligence Number Analogy Test One pair shows the rule, the next is missing its answer — twelve analogies, instant result. Take the test Fluid intelligence Verbal Analogy Test Cat is to meow as cow is to what? Find the relation, complete the pair — twelve times. Take the test
FAQ

Questions people actually ask

What is the Focus Index?

The Focus Index is NEURA’s own brain training score: a single number that rolls up the cognitive domains you train — attention, processing speed, working memory, visual recall and pattern logic — computed from your own results. It is a trend against yourself, not a comparison against anyone else.

Is the Focus Index an IQ score?

No. The Focus Index is not an IQ score, and it is not a diagnostic or medical measurement. NEURA builds its daily tasks from classic reasoning formats — matrices, series, analogies, mental rotation — but the number they produce is a training score with no norms, no percentile and no clinical meaning.

How is the Focus Index calculated?

The Focus Index is computed from your own sessions and nothing else. A daily session is 20 reasoning tasks whose difficulty adapts after every answer; each task is scored into a cognitive domain, and the domains roll up into the single index. The exact weighting is not published — and it would not help you much, because the useful reading is the direction the number moves over weeks, not one day’s figure.

When does my Focus Index appear?

Your Focus Index appears after your third completed daily session — until then the app shows your progress toward it as x/3. From there, Stats keeps a 14-day trend with a normal-range band and a per-domain breakdown, and Home shows a 7-day trend tile with the index inside the week ring.

Which cognitive domains does the Focus Index track?

The Focus Index tracks attention, processing speed, working memory, visual recall and pattern logic, with the wider catalog also spanning spatial reasoning, fluid intelligence and reaction time. The 19 games and Practice feed the same score. Beyond Focus — the knowledge decks, chess puzzles and the three puzzle games — is played but deliberately never scored into the index.

Can I compare my Focus Index with other people?

Not as a percentile: we publish no norms for the Focus Index, so there is no population ranking to place you in. There is a weekly leaderboard if you want the week to be a contest, and a weekly certificate you can share that carries anonymous figures only.

Start with one session.

Twenty tasks, about five minutes. NEURA Premium opens the daily training from there, starting with a free trial you can cancel any time in your Apple ID settings.

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