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Test for Face Memory

How well you fit remember face wey you never see before? Learn small set, then find dem among faces wey resemble dem, first for the same view, then from another angle. E go take about 2 minutes, e free, and no sign-up. Na computer-generated faces of people wey no dey exist.

Na Helibrain team write amRobert(English), PhD student for biophysics, don review amDem publish am Dem last review am

Wetin test for face memory dey measure?

Face-memory task dey ask you to learn faces wey you never see before and recognize dem later among other faces. This game separate recognizing the same picture from recognizing the same person for new view. Your result describe this short game wit computer-made portraits. E no be standard test of how you dey recognize faces for everyday life, and e no be clinical test.

Quick facts

  • The task: learn 6 faces, each one for 4 seconds, then make 12 choices.
  • The choices: one identity wey you don learn and unfamiliar faces as decoys inside every group of 3.
  • Two views: first na the same portrait, then another angle and lighting for the same person.
  • Your result: correct choices, accuracy and breakdown by view. Speed no add points.
  • The pictures: original computer-generated faces of people wey no dey exist. You no need camera or to upload photo.

How the game dey work

  1. Make the portraits load. Dem go load every image before learning start. Use clear screen and your usual glasses if you need am.
  2. Learn the faces. Dem go show one after another and change by demself. Look the features of each person.
  3. Find face wey you sabi. Tap the face wey you learn, or press the number key wey match am. Na only one choice for each group dey inside the set wey you learn. You fit take your time choose.
  4. Try the new view. Later choices go show the same people from another angle. You no go see the learning pictures together wit the choices.
  5. Read your result. If you leave the tab while you dey play, the attempt go end so you fit start fresh one.

Na visual task be this. Screen readers fit announce the controls, but spoken description no fit keep the face-recognition challenge the same. Phone and desktop dey use the same pictures and rules; screen size and how you dey view am fit still affect how you do.

How to understand your result

Accuracy na the number of correct choices divide by the total number of choices. The two view scores show wetin happen for each part, and each part get only small number of answers. One mistake fit change the percentage well-well. No pass mark dey.

Once enough eligible players don finish this version, the result go show comparison group: below, typical or above. Before that time, e go show number of eligible runs wey dem collect. Comparison use other players' first runs for the same version, and e remove runs wey dem flag. People wey visit website na group wey choose to come, no be norm for the whole population. If comparison no dey, e no change your accuracy.

The face set small. If you play am again, the faces go become more familiar, even if their order and roles change. Shared links let your friend try the same set and order; the link provide the score wey your friend see, and nobody check am independently.

Research wey dey behind this task

Duchaine and Nakayama Cambridge Face Memory Test introduce format wey person learn faces wey dem never see before, then recognize dem, including when the images change [1]. Dunn and colleagues' UNSW Face Test combine challenging face-memory and matching tasks, and show why broader set of tasks dey matter when dem dey assess differences between people [2].

Our game borrow the general idea of learning and recognition. E no be either of those research tests. The computer-made faces no be the validated research pictures; the length, image set and scoring different. We no use those tests' norms or use this score to label person as having exceptional ability or diagnose any condition. Dem don check the new-view images by eye to make sure the same identity dey show, but nobody don validate this image collection independently.

Questions people dey ask

Na Cambridge Face Memory Test be this?

No. Na original, shorter game wey take inspiration from the general task format. E use original computer-made portraits, different trials and comparison wit people wey play am here. You no fit convert published Cambridge scores to this game's results.

Na real people's photographs be these?

No. Na computer-generated faces of people wey no dey exist. We no use real photographs or research face sets. No names or personal life stories dey attached to dem.

High score mean say person get unusual ability to recognize faces?

No. E mean say you answer many of these choices correctly. Short game, practice before and small image collection no fit show how you go perform across everyday situations.

Why my score fit change?

Attention, tiredness, how familiar the portraits be to you and screen conditions fit change your run. The order of choices dey change for new attempt too. Take small differences with care.

Test for face memory free?

Yes. The game and full result free, no sign-up or payment.

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Cite dis page: Test for Face Memory. Helibrain. 2026. https://helibrain.com/pcm/face-memory-test. CC BY 4.0.

How this test works

This game measures how well you remember unfamiliar faces. First you learn 6 computer-generated faces, one at a time, for 4 seconds each. Then you see groups of 3 faces and pick the one you learned. The first 6 choices show the same pictures you learned. The next 6 show the same people from another angle and in other light. Your score is the share of right choices. This learn-then-recognize format follows a face memory test published in 2006.

Version 1 · Cite this test:

Helibrain (2026). Face memory test, v1. https://helibrain.com/face-memory-test/methods

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Sources

  1. Duchaine B, Nakayama K (2006). The Cambridge Face Memory Test: results for neurologically intact individuals and an investigation of its validity using inverted face stimuli and prosopagnosic participants. Neuropsychologia 44(4):576–585. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16169565/
  2. Dunn JD, Summersby S, Towler A, Davis JP, White D (2020). UNSW Face Test: A screening tool for super-recognizers. PLOS ONE 15(11):e0241747. journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0241747

How we take make dis page: di Helibrain team write am from di studies wey dem list above, and Robert(English) (PhD student for biophysics) review am on 4 Nọvẹ́mba 2026. We dey update am wen di sources change.