Not Worth the Money

Ive been using Lumosity for years and decided to try this for variety,maps I consistently score very high on that app. I thought it would be good to find new challenges. Big mistake!

First, there is no place to contact for support that I could find. Second, there are serious errors in this app that need addressing. Here are the worst ones:

I use my iPad for playing the games, and for some unexplained reason, a great deal of the text is missing in some games, so you have to resort to guessing. That lowers your overall score.

There is no option to try a game out before playing it, so you often get scored for not understanding how the game should be played, and then there is no way that you can replay the game if you finally figure it out. There are directions, but they are poorly written in some cases, so you end up having no idea how to play.

The social awareness game of recognizing facial expressions is insane. Many of the expressions could have multiple emotions behind them, so I score really low on it, getting worse each time, rather than improving. Since I am considered by others to be one of the most intuitive and empathetic persons they know, I am positive it is not my lack of social awareness.

Many of the questions are so redundant that you think you are taking the same test over and over again.

The foreign language part of the test is really sad. Though I agree that knowing other languages is highly beneficial, I find that section to be either too easy or completely impossible. Besides, that has nothing to do with neurological processing. It has to do with knowledge, and since this is a subsidiary of Rosetta Stone, it just seems like a commercial.

Those are my biggest complaints. Back to Lumosity for me.

glynne41 about Fit Brains Trainer