gwern comments on How to test your mental performance at the moment? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: gwern 28 November 2009 02:59:39AM 4 points [-]

IQ tests as regular measurement tools are terrible ideas. You'll quickly burn through the doable ones available online, and you will have destroyed their reliability for yourself by test-retest and other learning effects. Almost any other test would be superior - play Grid Wars, for example.

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Comment author: gwern 28 November 2009 02:40:36PM 0 points [-]

Grid Wars is probably even better than Quake. If you're not alert, you'll know it in a few seconds rather than minutes, and there seems to be surprisingly little learning - my own high scores seem to be quite randomly distributed in time.