Multiple Object Tracking Test
Eight dots. A few flash gold — memorize which. Then everything drifts for eight seconds and you keep tracking yours through the crowd. When the field freezes, click the ones you followed.
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What's a good score?
100% tracked — Elite — full-field awareness.
80–99% — Strong tracking; the practiced range.
60–80% — Typical first-session range.
< 60% — Attention is spread thin right now — tracking collapses early under fatigue.
What this test measures
Multiple object tracking (MOT) has been a workhorse of attention research since 1988: most people can track about 4 moving targets among identical distractors, and the limit is attentional, not visual. Esports studies keep finding MOT among the strongest cognitive separators of rank.
It is, almost literally, the teamfight: five moving things that matter, five that don’t, and no pausing to think about it.
Questions players ask
How many objects can humans track at once?
Around four moving targets for most adults, dropping as speed and clutter rise. Trained action-game players reliably sit at the top of that range.
Is object tracking the same as map awareness?
MOT is the lab-isolated core of it: sustaining attention on multiple moving targets. Game-sense adds prediction and knowledge on top, but the attentional engine is what this measures.
Why does my tracking collapse when I’m tired?
Tracking consumes sustained, divided attention — the exact resource fatigue drains first. MOT scores are reliably state-sensitive, which makes them useful for readiness checks.
The daily version
This test is one slot of our free 3-minute daily readiness check — five weighted measurements scored against your own baseline, with an honest verdict before you queue. Run today's check.