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Sequence Recall is a free sequence memory game in the style of Simon: four coloured pads light up in order, you repeat the order, and every round adds one more step to the same sequence. It is the general form of the span test — order plus identity — with abstract colours that carry no meaning to help you.
Pick a speed: Slow, Normal or Fast.
Watch the pads light up. Round 1 is a single step.
Repeat the order by tapping the pads or pressing keys 1–4 (1 green, 2 red, 3 yellow, 4 blue).
Get it right and the same sequence replays from the start with one new step on the end.
One wrong pad ends the run. Your score is the round you reached.
There are four pads. The sequence starts at one and adds one step each round, replaying from the beginning.
The first wrong pad ends the run. Your score is the round you reached, and it earns 10 XP per round. Your best round is saved in this browser.
Speed sets how fast the sequence plays: each step shows for 0.8 s on Slow, 0.6 s on Normal and 0.4 s on Fast, so a 10-step sequence plays in about 8, 6 or 4 seconds before your turn. Compare best rounds only at the same speed.
Serial order memory. Because the items are abstract, meaning-based strategies are unavailable and the score depends heavily on rehearsal and chunking. Another memory game to try next: Picture Order.
Reproducing a sequence of positions in order is the Corsi block-tapping task, a standard neuropsychological test of visuo-spatial working memory since the 1970s. Norms for healthy adults put the typical span at about five to six positions.
Because this version builds each round on the last one, it also involves learning: the early items are repeated so often that they move out of pure short-term memory. That makes it a good practice tool and a less pure test than a fresh sequence each time.
Chunk into threes or fours.
Give each item a verbal label, even an arbitrary one. Arbitrary labels rehearse better than raw images.
Rehearse in a rhythm. Order is carried by rhythm more reliably than by meaning.
Reproduce immediately. Every second of delay costs you the tail.
A game that shows items in a set order and asks you to repeat that order. Sequence Recall uses four coloured pads, Simon-style: the sequence grows by one step each round until you make a mistake, so your score is the longest order you held.
Name each colour as it lights (“green, red, red, blue”), group the names into threes or fours, and say them in a rhythm. Repeat the sequence straight away, and practise at one speed until your best round stops rising before moving to a faster one.
Recalling items in the exact order they were presented, also called serial recall. Repeating a sequence of positions in order is the Corsi block-tapping task, a standard test of visuo-spatial working memory; healthy adults typically manage about five to six positions.
Picture Order uses meaningful images, which lets you build a story. Abstract items remove that option.
Track your own progression. Absolute spans depend heavily on presentation speed.
It is the single largest lever in every span task. Capacity is measured in chunks, not items.
Serial position effect — the middle gets neither rehearsal nor recency protection.