AtlasMemoryDigit Span Test

Span and recognition tasks

Find the longest run of digits you can repeat

Watch a growing sequence of digits and enter it back in order. It grows until you miss twice; your result is the longest span you reproduced on this attempt.

What this assessment measures

Digit span is the classic short-term memory task: digits are shown one at a time and repeated back in order, with the sequence growing by one after each success. The result is the longest sequence you reproduced before missing twice at one length.

What this test reports

  • longest span
  • attempts

How the task works

  1. Three digits appear one at a time, about one per second.
  2. Repeat them in the order shown, using the keypad or your keyboard, then Submit.
  3. Every correct sequence grows by one digit; two misses at the same length stop the task.
  4. The backward version is the working memory test in this hub.

This task needs vision and a pointer or keyboard, and it measures response times. Times are measured on this device and browser and are reported as your own figures; they are not comparable across devices or with other people. If you use a screen reader or cannot respond quickly, the questionnaires and reasoning tests on this site are the accessible route.

Time
4 minutes
Length
adaptive length
Result
device-local figures
Source
Original MyTestAtlas task; device-local figures, no norm
Material limit

A span from one sitting on one device is a snapshot, not a memory score; sleep, noise, strategy and familiarity with the task all move it, and the figure is not comparable with clinical digit-span norms.

This route calculates its result in this browser tab; answers and result text are not sent as analytics properties or written to browser storage. Response times stay in this tab as well.

Use the result

Why this route is different

The page shows every digit at the same steady pace and stops on two misses rather than one, so a single slip does not end the attempt early.

A small next step

Try chunking the digits into pairs or triples on a second attempt and see whether the span changes.

Source and method boundary

These items and their scoring are original to MyTestAtlas. The route is labelled as practice, reflection, or entertainment and has no clinical, IQ, hiring, or population-norm interpretation.

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