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4. Reaction Times

How switched on are you? Would you be able to save a child from oncoming traffic? Snatch a fly out of the air with chopsticks? Make the winning save in the next World Cup?

No human on the planet can react instantaneously to a stimulus - snatching your hand away from a hot stove, for example - because it takes time for the signals to be relayed from the body - whether it's the hand, ears or eyes - to the brain. The information with then have to be processed before appropriate action can be taken, the signals for which also take time to travel around the body.

With all of the going on, it's amazing that we haven't all be mown down in traffic, but the average person will manage to process all of this in 0.25 seconds for a visual stimulus, 0.17 for an audio stimulus, and 0.15 seconds for a touch stimulus.

Take this simple but surprisingly tricky reaction times test to discover how sluggish your brain is.