Do you guys think the Chimpanzee memory test is actually a g

[Nelsom98]

I’ve been practicing visual recall games to improve my general focus, and I keep hitting a hard wall around level 5 or 6 on most sequence tests. I recently read about the famous primate studies where chimps absolutely destroy human college students on rapid number-sequence recall. It’s pretty humbling.

[muerko0]

Is our brain structure just fundamentally limited compared to theirs when it comes to short-term spatial snapshots, or can we train our way to their level?

[nerik98]

It's definitely humbling, but it's important to realize that chimpanzees have an evolutionary trade-off. They kept an incredible, almost instantaneous spatial working memory because they need it to survive in the wild, whereas humans sacrificed that raw processing speed to develop language and abstract thought. If you want to see how you stack up against them in real time, you can actually try a chimp test working memory at https://memoryos.com/memory-test/chimp-memory to test your own limits. Most people fail by round four because our working memory naturally maxes out around seven digits, but practicing these kinds of spatial patterns is still a great way to sharpen your focus.