Answer as fast as you can. The timer starts the moment each question appears.
Round 1 average: per question.
Same difficulty. Similar questions. But this time only 2 options. Everything else has been removed from the room.
Same rules: answer as fast as you can.
Our app uses similar frameworks to help identify and manage cognitive loads in your daily life. Enabling you to spend more of your attention where it matters (to you).
Decision time grows with the number of choices, even meaningless ones. You knew every answer, yet your brain still scanned, evaluated, and dismissed the wrong options. That scanning is attention spend you never authorized.
The wrong options felt like nothing. That's the point. Most attention drains feel like nothing: the phone face-up on the desk, the 14 open tabs, the "quick check" apps, the unfinished task in the back of your mind. Each one is a wrong answer your brain keeps rescanning.
You didn't focus harder in round 2. There was simply less to attend to. Focus is less about discipline and more about removing options before the decision starts: fewer apps, fewer defaults, fewer open loops.
Pick one recurring decision and cut its options in half. Two breakfast choices. One writing app. Phone in another room. Then notice, like you just did, how much faster you move.