How Brain-Rotted Is Your Brain?
A 5-minute assessment of your digital habits, attention, cognitive effort, and relationship with AI.
- No signup
- 5 minutes
- Private
- Science-informed
Your attention lives in a very noisy world.
- Short-form feeds
- Notifications
- Infinite scrolling
- AI everywhere
- Constant switching
We wanted to know what all of this might be doing to the way we think.
How it works
Three steps, about five minutes.
01
Tell us about your habits
A few questions about how you use your phone, social media, and AI.
02
Test your brain
Complete a few short cognitive challenges.
03
Understand your result
See where your strongest signals are and what you can change.
What we measure
Five signals, not one number.
Attention
How well you sustain focus on a stream of information over a couple of minutes.
Memory
What you can hold in working memory, and what survives a few minutes of distraction.
Impulse control
Whether you can hold back a response you've already started to make.
Cognitive effort
Your appetite for the slow, unrewarding middle part of a hard problem.
AI dependence
Whether AI is amplifying your thinking or quietly replacing it.
A note on the score
“Brain rot” is a popular cultural term, not a medical diagnosis. This assessment combines self-reported digital habits with simple cognitive tasks to produce an experimental behavioural score. It is not intended to diagnose or treat any medical or psychological condition.
What research does increasingly study is narrower and more useful: the relationship between fragmented digital consumption, attention, memory, and cognitive offloading. This is a snapshot of what you've been practising lately — not a verdict on your mind.
Curious where you land?
Five minutes, no signup, and three things you can actually do afterwards.