FOCUS SOOND TEST

Dae backgrund soond help YOUR focus?

Pit silence, pink noise an calm instrumental soond side by side in the same short attention task. Find oot whit works for ye the day.

3 short blocks · Aboot 3 minutes

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01 / GET READY

First, find a gentle volume.

Try a wee bit o pink noise. Keep the soond juist audible. Then keep the same volume through a' 3 blocks.

Volume15%Start low. Keep it comfortable.

Heidphones recommendit. Start wi yer device volume low. Dinna turn it up tae force an effect. Stop gin the soond feels uncomfortable.

Same task. 3 soond settins.

Tap the blue circle; haud back on the orange square. Ye can practise afore a block. The order o the 3 soond settins is shuffled. Use the same heidphones, device an surroundings aw the way through.

3 rounded blue bars showin a comparison o task scores.

Soond helps some fowk. Silence helps ithers.

A 2024 meta-analysis fund a sma average benefit frae white or pink noise for fowk wi ADHD or raised symptoms (g ≈ 0.25), an a sma negative effect in comparison groups (g ≈ −0.21). It fund nae studies o brown noise. That's evidence aboot task performance, no a treatment recommendation.

A 2023 study fund that lyrics slightly harmed memory an readin performance (d ≈ −0.3). Instrumental music showed nae clear benefit or harm. A 2018 meta-analysis an aa fund that backgrund soond slightly impaired readin, wi speech an lyrics especially distractin.

This is a personal experiment, no a validated assessment o attention or ADHD. A result on this task micht no apply tae readin, studyin or anither day. Our generated ambience has nae lyrics.

First, find a gentle volume.

Same task. 3 soond settins.

Soond helps some fowk. Silence helps ithers.

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First, find a gentle volume.

Same task. 3 soond settins.