A desktop application for brain-speed training — pick a game, play it, and track your progress over time. Inspired by the research in this study on dementia.
Brain Speed Exercises ships with eight games, each targeting a different cognitive skill:
| Game | What it trains |
|---|---|
| Directional Processing | Rapid visual motion perception — identify the direction of a briefly-displayed moving Gabor pattern. |
| Fast Piggie | Visual attention — spot the different guinea pig before they disappear! |
| Field of View | Split attention — identify the center kitten and the peripheral toys under rapid masked flashes. |
| High Speed Memory | Working memory — memorize the grid of cards, then find all the matching pairs from memory. |
| Object Track | Attention and visual memory — track multiple moving targets among identical distractors. |
| Orbit Sprite Memory | Spatial memory — track where the target sprite appears around the circle, then pick its three positions. |
| Otter Stop | Inhibitory control — react fast to each otter, but freeze when the no-go fish appears. |
| Sound Sweep | Auditory processing — hear two rapid frequency sweeps and identify the sequence. |
Your high score and session history for each game are saved automatically.
Visit the Releases page and open the most recent release (the one at the top of the list). Under Assets, download the installer for your operating system (see the table below).
| Operating System | File to download |
|---|---|
| macOS (Apple Silicon — M1/M2/M3/M4) | brain-speed-exercises-X.X.X-arm64.dmg |
| Windows | brain-speed-exercises-X.X.X.Setup.exe |
| Linux (Debian / Ubuntu) | brain-speed-exercises_X.X.X_amd64.deb |
| Linux (Fedora / RHEL / openSUSE) | brain-speed-exercises-X.X.X-1.x86_64.rpm |
Replace X.X.X with the version number of the release you downloaded (e.g. 0.1.0).
Note: macOS Intel builds are not currently published. If you are on an older Intel Mac you will need to build from source.
- Download the
.dmgfile. - Double-click the downloaded file to mount the disk image.
- Drag Brain Speed Exercises into your Applications folder.
- Eject the disk image, then open Brain Speed Exercises from Applications.
First-launch security prompt: macOS may warn that the app is from an unidentified developer. To open it the first time, right-click (or Control-click) the app icon and choose Open, then click Open again in the dialog.
- Download the
.Setup.exefile. - Double-click the installer and follow the on-screen prompts.
- Once installed, launch Brain Speed Exercises from the Start menu or the desktop shortcut.
Windows Defender SmartScreen: If a blue "Windows protected your PC" dialog appears, click More info and then Run anyway.
Debian / Ubuntu (.deb):
sudo dpkg -i brain-speed-exercises_X.X.X_amd64.debFedora / RHEL / openSUSE (.rpm):
sudo rpm -i brain-speed-exercises-X.X.X-1.x86_64.rpmAfter installation, launch Brain Speed Exercises from your applications menu, or run
brain-speed-exercises from a terminal.
If you prefer to run directly from source code (or your platform is not covered by the pre-built installers), see the Contributing Guide for prerequisites and setup steps.
Contributions are welcome! See contributing.md for guidelines on reporting
bugs, suggesting features, and submitting pull requests.
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