Five tests
Choose a test
Every test below follows the same idea: give your attention a job, then see what slips past it. Work through them in order, or jump to whichever premise interests you most.
Cyclist and road safety
Moonwalking Bear Awareness Test
A counting task borrowed from the classic invisible-gorilla study, reframed around what drivers and cyclists miss when attention narrows.
6 min read
General awareness
Situational Awareness Test
No single hidden trick — just a busy scene and the question of how much of it you actually process at once.
5 min read
Visual memory
Whodunnit Awareness Test
A short mystery clip that tests the gap between watching a scene and actually encoding what happened in it.
5 min read
The original experiment
Basketball Awareness Test
The 1999 Simons and Chabris study that first demonstrated inattentional blindness, in its closest original form.
6 min read
Driver training
Cyclist Awareness Test
Ordinary road footage, a counting task, and a cyclist most viewers only notice at the last moment, if at all.
6 min read