The IQ Gym
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Evidence-based test preparation

Train your mind for test day.

The IQ Gym teaches the patterns behind every major IQ question type — matrices, series, analogies, spatial puzzles — then drills you on them from a bank of thousands of rated items, with a worked explanation for every answer.

12 minutes · no sign-up needed · instant score profile

Warm-up · Matrix ~20 sec

Which piece completes the pattern?

The method

A study plan, not a pile of puzzles.

Every question type on an IQ test follows learnable rules. We teach the rules, then train them to automaticity.

1

Diagnose

An adaptive assessment maps your ability across six cognitive domains and gives a first estimate of where you have the most room to improve.

2

Train daily

A personalized 4–12 week plan: a lesson whenever it moves to new question types, a daily warm-up, adaptive drills across the families that week targets, one timed set a week from week two, and spaced review of your misses.

3

Retest & climb

Full-length mock exams under real conditions track your score trajectory as bands, because a change smaller than the band can be noise.

Six domains

Every question type, systematized.

Abstract

Matrices, figure series, analogies, odd one out — the heart of fluid reasoning.

Numerical

Number series, analogies, grids and insight problems, with the full rule ladder.

Verbal & logic

Analogies, classification, vocabulary, codes, deduction and syllogisms.

Spatial

Rotation, mirrors, paper folding, cube nets, assembly and block counting.

Working memory

Digit and figure span, sequence and position recall — holding information while you work on it.

Processing speed

Symbol matching and quick comparisons — each item is easy; the clock is not.

Free guides: Matrix reasoning · Figure series · Figure analogies · Odd one out · Number series · Verbal analogies · Syllogisms · Mental rotation · Cube nets · Paper folding · All 47 guides

Practice can lift your score. It won't give you a new brain.

Practice and strategy reliably raise IQ test performance — retest and coaching effects are among the best-documented findings in psychometrics. Claims of permanently raising general intelligence are not. The IQ Gym trains the former and never pretends otherwise: your scores here are educational estimates, not clinical diagnoses. How far your score moves depends on where you start and how you practise, so results vary.

+5–8 pointstypical retest gain from familiarity and practice reported across studies
47 question familieshave a written lesson: the generating rules and a strategy checklist, some with a worked example
Rated bankevery item starts at an author-set difficulty that updates as real answers arrive
What it costs

All of it is free. An account is what unlocks it.

There is no paid tier and no checkout to reach. The difference below is not what you pay — it is whether the work is saved.

Without an account

$0 nothing to sign up for
  • The 20-question quick test, 12 minutes, with your real score band and every answer explained — never held back
  • Your score broken down by domain, so you can see which ones cost you points
  • A worked explanation for every question you answered
  • No history and no trend line — the result stands alone, and there is nothing to come back to
Take the quick test

With a free account

$0 no card, no trial, no upsell
  • Everything above, kept: every result saved, with a trajectory chart, per-domain deltas and streaks
  • Both full assessments — the 49-item timed form and the shorter adaptive one — as many times as you like
  • A study plan built from your own diagnostic, with all of its weeks open
  • Every lesson, drills across the 47 question families that hold questions, and a review queue that brings your misses back before you forget them
  • A certificate for any full assessment, as a PDF, with a public link anyone can check
Create a free account

Drills are capped at 60 items a day. That cap protects the question bank's calibration, not a price — it applies to every account, granted ones included. It is the only limit on how much you can practise; the rest are ordinary rate limits on how fast requests can arrive.