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A topic picker for when you cannot decide, a timer for when you can, a knowledge quiz, a bias detector, and a random fact generator that has become the most used page on the site. Nothing here asks for an email.

Free online tests: personality, memory, reaction time and more

Free Tests

Ten free tests with instant results and no email gate: personality, Enneagram, love language, reaction time, attention span, memory, emotional intelligence, aphantasia, general knowledge and vocabulary. Every result names the exact place you can grow.

10 Tests Instant Results No Signup
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Pub Quiz: 500 free questions across ten rounds

Pub Quiz

500 questions across ten classic rounds, from general knowledge and geography to music, sport and film. Pick your categories, play a scored round, and see a breakdown showing exactly which round is costing you the win.

500 Questions 10 Rounds Scored
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Trivia questions and answers sorted into ten categories

Trivia Questions

Sixty trivia questions with the answers printed underneath, sorted into ten categories, plus a ten-question round you can play in any single category. Built for the American trivia night rather than the British pub quiz.

60 Printed 10 Categories No Sign-Up
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Random Fact Generator

Random Fact Generator

500+ verified facts about science, psychology, history, space, and more. One tap gives you one mind-blowing fact. Filter by category, share with friends, and track how many you've discovered.

500+ Facts 8 Categories Shareable
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Random Fact Widget

Random Fact Widget

Embed a tiny NerdSip fact generator on a blog, classroom page, or resource list. Choose a theme and category, preview it live, then copy the iframe code with attribution included.

Embeddable No Signup Copy Code
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What Should I Learn Right Now?

What Should I Learn?

Pick your mood and available time to get three smart topics you can start immediately. Great for bored moments, curiosity sparks, and replacing one more scroll with something that sticks.

Topic Picker 5-20 Minutes No Signup
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How Smart Are You?

How Smart Are You?

20 questions across 10 knowledge domains: Science, Psychology, History, Health, Technology, Nature, Space, Society, Art & Culture, and Philosophy. Get your Nerd Class and a detailed score breakdown.

20 Questions 10 Categories Nerd Class
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Pomodoro Focus Timer

Pomodoro Focus Timer

25 minutes of focused work, 5 minutes to learn something new. The classic Pomodoro technique with a twist: we show you a random brain fact during every break. Track sessions and total focus time.

25/5 Intervals Break Facts Session Tracking
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You vs ChatGPT

You vs ChatGPT

10 questions AI famously fails — counting traps, logic riddles, CRT math, and an ARC-AGI pattern puzzle. GPT-4o scores 1/10 on these. Can you beat it? Based on documented benchmark failures.

10 Questions ARC-AGI AI Benchmarks
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ARC-AGI Test

ARC-AGI Test

5 original ARC-AGI-style puzzles — the benchmark that stumps frontier AI. Infer a pattern from two examples, then apply it. Humans average 60%. Base AI scores ~0%. Free, no signup.

5 Puzzles ARC-AGI Pattern Reasoning
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Cognitive Bias Detector

Cognitive Bias Detector

20 real-world scenarios where hidden biases shape decisions. Spot the cognitive bias at play — from anchoring and sunk cost fallacy to the Dunning-Kruger effect. Sharpen your critical thinking.

20 Scenarios Psychology Critical Thinking
Spot the bias
If you're bored

Start with a topic picker

Get a tiny learning idea first, then jump into the random fact generator when you want a quick spark.

 If you're studying

Focus, then test yourself

Use the Pomodoro timer for a work sprint, then check retention with the general knowledge test.

 If you like AI puzzles

Try the benchmark path

Challenge ChatGPT first, then go deeper with the ARC-AGI pattern reasoning test.

 If people are confusing

Train your psychology radar

Spot cognitive biases in everyday scenarios, then explore psychology courses in the NerdSip library.

Why We Built Free Learning Tools

NerdSip exists to make learning effortless. Our app delivers bite-sized courses on science, psychology, history, and hundreds of other topics. But we also believe that some of the best learning moments happen outside of any app — during a study break, a slow afternoon, or a moment of curiosity.

That's why we built these tools. They're completely free, require no account, and work instantly in any browser. Each one is designed around a simple idea: make it absurdly easy to learn something new or study more effectively. Reviewers and newspapers have taken their own look at what we build, and that coverage sits on our media page.

How These Tools Help You Learn

Random Fact Generator

Our fact generator pulls from the same curated knowledge base that powers our 3,000+ micro-lessons. Every fact is verified, fascinating, and designed to stick. Research on the spacing effect shows that encountering information in short, random bursts over time leads to significantly better long-term retention than concentrated study. One fact at a time, day after day, builds genuine breadth of knowledge.

General Knowledge Test

The testing effect is one of the most robust findings in learning science: taking a quiz is more effective for retention than re-reading material. Our knowledge test doesn't just measure what you know — it actively strengthens your memory of the topics covered. The category breakdown helps you identify blind spots, so you know exactly where to focus your learning.

Pomodoro Focus Timer

The Pomodoro Technique is backed by decades of cognitive science research. Brief, timed work intervals with regular breaks maintain peak focus and prevent the diminishing returns of marathon sessions. Our twist: during every break, you learn a new brain or science fact. Over a typical study day, that's 8-12 new facts you pick up without any extra effort.

Cognitive Bias Detector

Cognitive biases are systematic errors in thinking that affect every decision we make. Psychologists Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky identified dozens of these biases through decades of research, earning Kahneman a Nobel Prize in 2002. Our detector presents real-world scenarios and challenges you to identify which bias is at play. Recognizing biases in controlled settings trains you to spot them in your own daily decisions — from anchoring effects in salary negotiations to sunk cost fallacies in project management.

AI Benchmarks: How We Measure Machine Intelligence

Two of our tools — You vs ChatGPT and ARC-AGI Test — are built around the benchmarks that researchers use to measure AI reasoning. Understanding how these benchmarks evolved helps explain why certain questions still trip up the most advanced AI systems.

The Evolution of AI Benchmarks

AI evaluation has undergone a dramatic shift in just a few years. Early benchmarks focused on knowledge recall — could a model answer factual questions? As models mastered those, researchers moved to harder challenges:

Why Some Questions Still Stump AI

Our "You vs ChatGPT" challenge is built around documented failure modes — not obscure trivia, but systematic weaknesses in how language models process information. Tokenization causes counting errors (the infamous "how many R's in strawberry"). Chain-of-thought reasoning fails on problems with deliberate misdirection. These aren't bugs that will be patched; they reflect fundamental architectural choices in how models represent language.

ARC-AGI tests a different dimension entirely: the ability to learn a novel concept from minimal examples and generalize it. Humans do this effortlessly — a child seeing two examples of a grid transformation can often infer the rule. AI models that rely on pattern-matching from trillions of training tokens struggle precisely because ARC puzzles are designed to be unlike anything in the training data.

Where We Are in March 2026

The landscape is shifting fast. OpenAI's o3 system (with high compute) scored 87.5% on ARC-AGI-1 in late 2024, proving that with enough reasoning budget, frontier models can tackle novel pattern tasks. Claude Opus 4.6 and GPT-5.4 have pushed GPQA scores past 70%. But ARC-AGI-2 remains largely unsolved, and FrontierMath continues to expose the gap between statistical pattern matching and genuine mathematical reasoning.

Our tools let you experience these benchmarks firsthand. When you solve an ARC puzzle that stumped GPT-4 for years, you're demonstrating a form of intelligence that AI researchers are still trying to replicate.

The Science Behind Microlearning

All of our tools are built on the same principles that power the NerdSip app:

The app runs the same list at full size: a course generated on whatever topic you name, a question at the end of every lesson, and a Repetition tab that builds review rounds out of what you already finished. The full feature list is here.

Explore More NerdSip Learning Paths

The tools are the quickest way to start. For deeper learning, use the main NerdSip hubs below.

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Go Deeper With NerdSip

These tools give you the appetizer. The app gives you the full meal: 500+ interactive courses, AI-generated lessons on any topic, XP and leveling, and a community of curious minds.

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