FOCUS SOUND TEST

Background sound dey help YOUR focus?

Compare quiet, pink noise and calm instrumental sound for the same short attention task. Find wetin work for you today.

3 short rounds · About 3 minutes

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First, find volume wey gentle.

Try small pink noise. Make the sound just dey audible. Then keep the same volume for all three rounds.

Volume15%Start low. Make e comfortable.

Dem recommend headphones. Start with your device volume low. No turn am up just to force any effect. Stop if the sound no comfortable.

Same task. Three sound settings.

Tap the blue circle; hold back for the orange square. You fit practise before one round. Dem shuffle the order of the three sound settings. Use the same headphones, device and surroundings throughout.

Three rounded blue bars wey show comparison of task scores.

Sound dey help some people. Quiet dey help others.

One 2024 meta-analysis find say white or pink noise get small average benefit for people wey get ADHD or high symptoms (g ≈ 0.25), and small negative effect for comparison groups (g ≈ −0.21). E no find any brown-noise studies. This na evidence about how people do task, e no be treatment advice.

One 2023 study find say lyrics spoil memory and reading performance small (d ≈ −0.3). Instrumental music no show clear benefit or harm. One 2018 meta-analysis too find say background sound spoil reading small, and speech and lyrics distract pass.

This na personal experiment, e no be assessment of attention or ADHD wey dem validate. Result for this task fit no apply to reading, studying or another day. The ambience we generate no get lyrics.

First, find volume wey gentle.

Same task. Three sound settings.

Sound dey help some people. Quiet dey help others.

Research wey support this page

First, find volume wey gentle.

Same task. Three sound settings.