Daily Training Plan
A few focused minutes a day, every day.
Brain training works like physical training: consistency beats marathon sessions. Here's how we recommend structuring your daily minutes — and which games to reach for.
Why short daily sessions win
Cognitive skills sharpen through repetition and rest. A short, focused session pushes each skill just past its comfort zone; sleep then consolidates the gains. Ten intense minutes today and ten tomorrow beat an exhausting hour once a week — attention fades fast, and tired reps teach your brain very little.
That's why your hub tracks trained time per skill, per day. The goal isn't to grind — it's to touch all three skill areas briefly, at full attention, and come back tomorrow.
The three daily goals
Your Trained Today bar tracks three goal levels for each skill category. Hit at least Basic in all three categories to keep your daily improvements going.
Basic
4min per skill
The consistency floor. Enough stimulus to keep yesterday's gains and nudge each skill forward. Perfect for busy days — never skip it.
Advanced
6min per skill
The sweet spot for steady improvement. Extra reps at full focus push your limits further without draining you.
Max
10min per skill
For days you want to maximise learning. Past this point returns diminish — stop while you're still sharp, and rest.
What to train, skill by skill
Each skill category responds to slightly different training. Rotate through all three every day — they reinforce each other.
Processing Speed
Speed
Your brain's raw clock speed — how fast you retrieve facts and make simple decisions. It underpins everything else: faster processing frees capacity for memory and precision.
💡 Train it early in your session while you're freshest. Chase speed, not perfection — a few fast mistakes beat many slow, safe answers.
Recommended games
Working Memory
Memory
Your mental workspace — holding and juggling numbers, names and steps without losing your place. It's the skill most linked to reasoning and everyday focus.
💡 Train it mid-session, after a speed warm-up. When a level feels easy, welcome the harder one — working memory only grows at the edge of overload.
Recommended games
Reaction
Reaction
The link between your thinking brain and your moving hand — split-second decisions delivered with precision. Dual-task training like this is where research shows the strongest everyday transfer.
💡 Great as a session finisher. Prioritise clean, controlled movements over frantic speed — precision under pressure is the skill being built.
Recommended games
Habits that make it stick
Same time, every day
Anchor training to an existing habit — with your morning coffee, on your commute, after lunch. A fixed slot removes the daily decision.
Full attention or none
Five focused minutes beat twenty distracted ones. Put the session in the foreground: no video on the side, no conversation in the background.
Rotate your games
Playing the same game forever trains the game, not the skill. Rotate within each category so your brain keeps meeting fresh challenges.
Track it weekly
Daily scores wobble — that's normal. Judge progress by the week: the weekly check-in and your Brain Age show the real trend.
Start today
Your first four minutes start now
Pick any game and the difficulty adapts to you from the first round. Hit Basic in all three skills today and your streak begins.
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