Do You have a Better Photographic Memory than a Chimp?

A 7-year-old chimp named Ayumu who is living in a lab in Japan has recently hit the news for outsmarting college students at a basic cognitive memory test. It’s your turn to outshine him.

Are you smarter than a chimp? If you’re up for the challenge, take the same quiz that he took. And if you really need the inspiration, watch the video of him doing it again and again and again.

CNN reports the findings as well:

“Think you’re smarter than a fifth-grader? How about a 5-year-old chimp? Japanese researchers pitted young chimps against human adults in tests of short-term memory, and overall, the chimps won…

When the numbers were displayed for about seven-tenths of a second, Ayumu and the college students were both able to do this correctly about 80 percent of the time.

But when the numbers were displayed for just four-tenths or two-tenths of a second, the chimp was the champ. The briefer of those times is too short to allow a look around the screen, and in those tests Ayumu still scored about 80 percent, while humans plunged to 40 percent.”

How well did you score?