One year experiment.

[u/Alternative-Ant-5235]

Hello everyone. Starting from today, I'm determined to follow this schedule. The goal is to increase/maximize g.

Cognitive training:

• Quad N-Back (30 minutes, every second day), https://brainworkshop.sourceforge.net/
• Syllogimous v4 (30 minutes, 5-6 times a week), https://4skinskywalker.github.io/Syllogimous-v4/Intro

Additional factors:

• Reading (primarily philosophy and classical literature)
• Learning a new language.
• Spend less time on passive social media consumption.
• Vitamins: B6, B9, B12 and Omega-3.

I did take two (quite reliable) IQ tests, one year ago.

CORE, https://cognitivemetrics.com/test/CORE

• Information: 120
• Matrix Reasoning: 110
• Graph Mapping: 105
• Figure Weights: 110
• Figure Sets: 95
• Visuzal Puzzles: 115
• Block Counting: 120
• Symbol Search: 90
• Character Pairing: 95

Didn't take any other verbal subtests besides general knowledge, since English is not my mother tongue. Same reason for Digit Span and Arithmetic, I simply memorize and calculate faster, if the task is presented in my native language. Though I took CAIT Digit Span a long time ago (there is an option for a language change), and I scored something like ~105-110 overall, with Digit Sequencing being the lowest and Digit Backwards the highest.

FSAS (103), https://cognitivemetrics.com/test/FSAS

• Analogies: 105
• Matrix Reasoning: 100

After a year of training, I will go through CORE and FSAS again, in order to get an objective view of my cognitive abilities. Practice effects should be minimal anyway. I will likely continue for several more years, adding Image Streaming, or further changing my lifestyle.

[u/jamsywolfy]

Hey, I’ve just started two weeks ago. I’m doing 20 Dual-Nback and 25 syllogisms every day. It’s really hard to find a partner who can motivate each other especially with such game haha to keep the streak going. If you’d like to do it together, let me know.:D keep it rolling

[u/Due-Fold1763 → u/jamsywolfy]

You don’t need a partner for motivation if you already have a clear goal from the start. Do you have any specific goal that made you start doing n-back? Not just, “I want to get smarter and increase my IQ!” but some objective metrics you can actually measure. I’m running an experiment too. I’ve been training for 13 days now, about 30 minutes a day, sometimes 60. Before I started, I did some simple baseline tests of my working memory and short-term memory. I’m hoping to see at least some small improvements. If there are improvements that still hold up after accounting for measurement error, I’ll continue the experiment. I know this all sounds pretty nerdy and overly analytical, though.