A Human Benchmark alternative built for serious focus training
Human Benchmark is a great, fast way to test reflexes, memory, and typing. What it doesn't have is a dedicated focus-training suite — none of the fourteen attention paradigms Focani is built on, including the Schulte Table, Stroop, visual search and object tracking. Focani keeps the same play-first, no-sign-up philosophy and adds tools for tracking your focus over time.
We're not here to talk it down. If you want reaction-time and memory games, it's excellent at that. If you want to train and measure focus and selective attention, that's what Focani is for.
| Dimension | Human Benchmark | Brain-training apps (e.g. Lumosity) | Focani |
|---|---|---|---|
| What it measures | Reflexes, memory and typing — each on its own | Proprietary games spanning several abilities, often rolled into one overall score | ✓Attention, split into 8 dimensions that are scored separately |
| What one session gives you | A score, and where it sits against everyone else | A short daily workout of games, each scored on its own | ✓A score, the trial-by-trial detail behind it, and whether you drifted within the session |
| Why you would come back | To beat your own record | A daily habit, and a subscription that unlocks the full program | ✓To see your own curve — every number here compares you with your recent self, not with other players |
| What it costs | Free to play | Free to start; the full program is a paid subscription | ✓Free — every test and every feature, no sign-up to play |
What Human Benchmark has, checked by hand on 2026-07-24
- Reaction Time, Sequence Memory, Aim Trainer, Number Memory, Verbal Memory, Chimp Test, Visual Memory and Typing
- A general reflex-and-memory suite, not an attention suite
- Each test gives you one score, compared with everyone else
It may have changed since — this column is not generated from their site.
On brain-training claims, checked on 2026-10-22
- In January 2016 Lumos Labs, the maker of Lumosity, paid $2 million to settle FTC charges that it advertised benefits at work, at school and against age-related decline without the scientific evidence to back them (a $50 million judgment was suspended).
- The same order requires competent and reliable scientific evidence before any future claim about real-world performance, age-related decline or health conditions.
Source: FTC press release, January 5, 2016. The brain-app column describes the category, not any one product's current feature list.
When you should use Human Benchmark instead
- You want a quick number. Reaction time, number span, typing speed — it gives you one in seconds, and it does that better than a suite built for something else.
- You want to know where you stand against other people. It has the player base for that. Focani does not, and says so: with this few players any percentile here would be noise, so every number on this site is self-referential by design.
- You are testing memory, not focus. Sequence, verbal and visual memory are not attention paradigms, and there is nothing like them here.
What a reflex-and-memory suite structurally cannot give you
These are not features one site happens to have and the other doesn't — they follow from measuring attention as several separate things rather than one.
- Dimensions that come apart, kept apart. You can be quick to spot a target and still lose the thread a minute later. One combined score hides exactly that; 8 separate ones do not.
- Within-session drift. Because each trial is recorded, the site can show whether your second half was slower than your first — a single end-of-test number cannot.
- An honest answer about whether this transfers. Nobody can promise that practicing these tasks makes you sharper in daily life; the research on that kind of carry-over is mixed at best. So this site sells you a measurement, not a result — and says so on the pricing page too.