Free Pymetrics Games Online Practice and Guide for 2025

The Pymetrics games is an AI-based assessment that tracks your behavior while you play. It measures how you react, plan, focus, take risks, and more, based on small decisions you make during each game.

There’s no scoring system. Instead, the test collects data on how you move through each task: things like speed, timing, persistence, and adaptability.

All this is used to build a profile of how you tend to work and solve problems. Employers use this to see if your natural style fits the job or team.

Each of the 12 Pymetrics Games focuses on something else, like memory, learning, self-control, or risk.

Here’s a quick breakdown of what each game does and how it works.

In the Balloon Game, you need to gather as much money as possible by pumping balloons. Too much pumping will explode the balloon if it reaches its explosion point.

• Each time you click "Pump," the balloon increases in size and earns you $0.05.
  
  
• To retain the money you've made, click "Collect" before the balloon explodes.
  
  
• If the balloon explodes before you click "Collect," you will lose the money.

Here is an example of a different balloon color. Can you spot the difference? 

As this game assesses your pattern recognition and risk tolerance, you need to make your choices according to the characteristics required in the position you applied for. For example, in the finance world, risk-taking is a crucial trait. However, if you are applying for a role that requires more calculated methods, such as research analysis, it may be preferable to present more cautious tendencies and collect the money sooner without the risk of losing it.

The balloons come in different colors, and each color has its own (hidden) explosion probability. The only way to succeed is by learning the behavior of each color as you go.

You’re expected to spot patterns quickly, adapt your pumping strategy, and show learning from previous outcomes. Every balloon that explodes gives you valuable feedback to improve your next round.

• Risk Tolerance — How comfortable are you with risk-taking?
  
  
• Impulsivity — Do you think before you act?
  
  
• Pattern Recognition — How good at learning new things are you?
  
  
• Decision Making — Are you a thoughtful planner or act on your instincts?

Top performers treat the first few rounds as experimentation. They test different balloon colors to estimate how far they can go and build a strategy from there.

They apply adaptive risk management: for colors that typically explode early, they collect sooner; for safer colors, they push further. Instead of letting emotions dictate actions, they analyze and adjust after every pop - improving continuously throughout the game.

While the Balloon game requires you to follow the same set of rules all the way through, the focal point of the next game is your ability to focus on one task for a long time.

In the Stop Game, you will be presented with a red circle or a green circle –

• When you see a red circle, you will need to press the spacebar.
• When you see a green circle, you don’t need to do anything.

The game assesses your attention span and ability to stay concentrated, which manifests in your consistency and level of impulsivity. This characteristic is crucial in almost every field of work, from consulting to Data Science.

What makes this Pymetrics game hard is that both red and green circles quickly flash on your screen, requiring you to respond quickly while also being precise and inhibiting unwanted clicks. Under the pressure of a test, it can be quite difficult.  

• Attention — Your capacity to manage information and filter distractions.
  
  
• Focus — Are you better at remaining on a single task or a dynamic multi-tasker?

tapping to a metronome. When red circles appear in a pattern (e.g., every 1.5 seconds), they lean into that beat to anticipate them. But they also “prime” their inhibition when green circles are likely - such as after a red streak  by taking a micro-pause. This shows employers that they can actively self-regulate rather than just react.

As the Stop game, the next game also assesses your attention and your ability to shift from one task to another swiftly and effectively.

In the Arrow Game, you will be presented with different sets of flashing arrows, and you will need to indicate the direction of the arrows according to two rules –

• If the arrows are blue or black, you will need to indicate the direction of the middle arrow.
• If the arrows are red, you will need to indicate the direction of the side arrows.

  Though it might seem easy enough, it’s more confusing when arrows are facing opposite directions:  

  And even more difficult when you need to quickly identify the rules changed and shift your attention to the side arrows:

The Arrow game assesses your learning abilities, attention, and adaptivity. These traits are essential in most lines of work and are crucial for positions such as trade, risk management, and Financial Analysis.

 It is cognitively draining to quickly understand the types of arrows and react accordingly while remaining on high alert for a long period of time. 

• Learning — How does new information influence your behavior?
• Attention — Your capacity to manage information and filter distractions.
• Adaptivity — How quick are you at learning from mistakes?

Top performers internalize the switching rules early and start chunking visual patterns instead of reading arrows individually. For instance, they immediately recognize “blue-left, red-right” as a schema and focus only on the middle arrow when needed. They also recover quickly from mistakes by resetting mentally rather than trying to “compensate” on the next round - indicating adaptive learning and emotional resilience.

While the Arrow Game requires you to divide your attention between different elements, the following game focuses on one main trait; this time, it’s your planning ability.

In the Tower Game, you will be presented with three towers, each with a different arrangement of colored disks stacked on them, and an example of how the towers should look.

You will need to rearrange the disks to match the example, using the fewest moves possible.

The purpose of this game is not to see if you can solve the task but to evaluate your behavior and planning methods. In fact, the game assesses two factors – the number of moves you make and the time it takes you to make your first move. Taking a few extra moments to make your first move can be a sign of good planning and strategy, which are valuable traits to highlight in many positions, especially managerial roles and those that require forecasting a few steps forward.

Mentally strategizing your moves demands imagining the outcomes of each block you move, a challenging fit for many. On the positive side, this game rewards taking time to strategize. 

• Decision Making — Are you a thoughtful planner or act on your instincts?

In the Tower Game, you are assessed on your ability to plan ahead, while the next game is a bit more personal as it evaluates your trust in other people.

In the first Money Exchange Game, you will be paired with an AI player –

• You start the game with $10.
• You can transfer any amount to the other player. Once it's transferred, the amount will be tripled.

• Then, the other player can decide how much to return to you.
• Finally, you will need to rate how fair your partner was during this transaction. 

For the first Pymetrics Money Exchange Game, you need to decide how much money you want to transfer to the other player according to your trust in him. By transferring a large amount, you show you trust the other player to be fair and return some of the money he gained. By transferring a small amount, you display suspicion toward the other player.

In real life, as in this game, too much trust can lead to a loss, and thus, trusting other people is often involved in taking risks. These two qualities are tested in almost every working environment when working with your colleagues, clients, and affiliates.

There's a line between showing trust and risking too much — and you will have a single chance to show that you know the line.

• Trust — How confident are you in the integrity of those around you?
• Risk Tolerance — How comfortable are you with risk-taking?

The first and next Money Exchange Games are both called “Money Exchange Games,” and though they look similar, this one assesses the trust you put in others, while the next game evaluates the trust that can be put in you.

In the second Money Exchange Game, you will once again be paired with an AI player, but this time with different rules -

• Both you and the other player start with $5.
• Only one of you will receive an extra $5.
• You have the option to share some of your extra-earned money with the other player and then rate the fairness of the transaction.

Now, you play a second round with a different player.

• Only you get an extra $5.
• You get to decide whether to give the other player a sum of money or take it from them and then rate the fairness of that transaction.

 For the second Pymetrics Money Exchange Game, you must decide whether to give money to the other player even though you don’t get any money in return. This action demonstrates your altruism. In contrast to the first money game, you have total control over determining the amount of money you and the other player will end up with.

While having a strong sense of altruism has its merits, it is crucial to establish boundaries. Being overly generous and giving away all your money can result in having none left, indicating a lack of thoughtful planning. However, in some positions involving aiding other people, it is essential to demonstrate that you can see other people’s needs. The meaning is that similarly to the first money exchange game — you will have to find the line between too much and too little.

• Generosity — Do you prioritize the needs of others above your own?

The Pymetrics games assess different aspects of your personality. For example, they can assess your altruism, as in this game, or your motivation and decision-making strategy, as in the next game.

In the Hard or Easy Task Game, you will need to choose between two tasks –

• An easy task that you will most likely be able to complete, but the reward is low

         Or

• A hard task that will be harder to complete, but the reward is high 

The goal of this game is to assess your willingness to work hard and your strategic thinking.

As in all of the Pymetrics games, your strategy needs to be based on the job you applied for. For instance, as a consultant, you are required to take risks by providing advice to clients on complex problems, but as an accountant, you are often required to follow established procedures and avoid unnecessary risks.

The trick here is that you will have a different probability of earning that money for each round. This means that you can put a lot of effort into the hard task and end up with no money at all.

• Effort — Are you a hard worker who puts equal effort into all tasks, or are you outcome-driven?
• Decision Making — Are you a thoughtful planner or act on your instincts?

The Hard or Easy game might seem simple at first glance, but it assesses the crucial ability of strategic decision-making. A similar misleading game is the next one, but don’t let its simplicity fool you, as it evaluates your processing speed.

In the Keypress Game, you need to press on the spacebar as many times as you can in a limited time.

 For the Pymetrics Keypress Game, you need to repeatedly press on the spacebar as quickly as you can from the moment you see the message “GO” and stop the moment you see the loading page, indicating that the game is over.

This game assesses your ability to process information, such as understanding and following instructions, while also avoiding impulsivity. Thus, you have to be careful not to press the spacebar before you see the “GO” and not after the time runs out. This game also assesses your pressing speed, indicating your lateralized coordination.

The ability to process information quickly is necessary for a wide range of positions, from traders who need to process information quickly and make decisions based on that information to financial advisors who help clients with their financial planning.

• Attention — Your capacity to manage information and filter distractions.
• Impulsivity — Do you make rush moves?

As opposed to the Keypress Pymetrics game, which requires your attention but not complicated thought, the next one is a bit more challenging, as it assesses your pattern recognition.

In the Card Game, you will be presented with four decks of cards.

In every draw, you can either earn money:

 or lose money:

This test measures two main competencies – risk and pattern recognition. At first, before you recognize a pattern in the decks, you are demonstrating your risk tolerance; hence you can’t know in advance which card will win or lose. After a few draws, you will recognize that every deck has its own pattern. Thus, by implementing your new knowledge, you can maximize your profit.

When drawing a card, you can either win or lose. Although it seems random at first, as you progress, you should start recognizing the underlying pattern to make the most efficient choices and earn a larger amount of money. 

• Risk tolerance — How comfortable are you with risk-taking?
• Pattern Recognition — How good at learning new things are you?

As in this game, the following game also assesses your learning ability and your ability to pay attention to details. 

In the Pymetrics Lengths Game, you will be presented with two images of a face –

• When recognizing a face with a short mouth, you need to press the left arrow key.
• When recognizing a face with a long mouth, you need to press the right arrow key.

In some rounds of the game, you will earn a reward when answering correctly.

Can you identify which of the faces has the longer mouth? 

The Pymetrics Lengths Game assesses your attentional ability. You are required to recognize within a short time whether the face has a short or long mouth. Simple as it might look, this is quite a challenge as the lengths of the mouth differ by only 10%.

In addition, the game also assesses your motivation and checks if you are after the reward or after getting the correct answer.

Attention to detail is a demanded quality in many roles, including auditing, which requires notice every minute, and accounting, a position in which you are responsible for maintaining accurate financial records.

This is a very hard game, as the lengths of the short and long mouths are very similar to one another. It is almost impossible to distinguish unless you look at both at once.

• Learning — How does new information influence your behavior?
• Attention — Your capacity to manage information and filter distractions.
• Effort — Are you a hard worker who puts equal effort into all tasks, or are you outcome-driven?

Another vital quality for those positions is a good memory, which is what the next game assesses.

In the Digits Memory Game, you are presented with a sequence of numbers. You must remember the sequence and type the digits in the same order. The sequence will become longer and harder to memorize in each round.

Let’s try an easy one: 

And now, take a shot at a harder one: 

The Pymetrics Digits Memory Game tests your memory by asking you to memorize increasingly longer sequences of digits each round. If that is not hard enough, 

This ability is essential in almost every job, from Portfolio Managers who need to track various investments and their performance to Financial Planners who need to recall their clients’ financial goals, risk tolerance, and past investments.

Besides memorizing long lists of items, the digits change fast, and you have only a short time to memorize them.

• Memory

Until now, most of the Pymetrics games we’ve seen assessed various cognitive abilities and competencies, such as your memory ability in the digits memory game. The next and final game is quite different, as it evaluates your emotional intelligence.

In the Faces game, you are presented with pictures of faces with different expressions and a list of words that describe the emotion in the picture.

Some pictures will be accompanied by a brief story that describes a situation, other pictures will be shown on their own, without context.

You will need to choose the word that best reflects the emotion in the picture.

To assess your ability to identify emotions, which is a key aspect of emotional intelligence and empathy.

Sometimes the story accompanying the picture is deliberately confusing and even contradicts the immediate choice. In other cases, there is more than one word that can describe the facial expression, and sometimes there is no distinctive word that can describe the feeling you identified.

• Emotional intelligence — Do you rely on people's facial expressions or the context to interpret their emotions?

After you complete all 12 Pymetrics games, the company gets two things:

1. Your fit score (also called fit band)

2. A recruiter report

You only see your trait report, which shows how you behave. You do not see how well you match the job or company. That part is only for the employer.

Your fit score is not a number. It’s a band, based on how closely your gameplay matches the way top employees played.

The test compares your behavior to the behavior of people who already succeed in the same role. It checks how well your way of thinking and acting fits the job.

This is not based on skills or experience. The system looks at your cognitive and emotional traits, like focus, learning, consistency, and decision-making.

You’re placed into one of three bands:

• Highly Recommended

• Recommended

• Not Recommended

If you're in one of the top two, the company may move you to the next step. If not, they might stop the process there.

The recruiter gets a report that shows how well you match the role. This report has two parts:

• Matching traits

• Traits to probe

Matching traits are the behaviors that helped you match the job model. These explain why you were placed in a good fit band. But recruiters are told not to focus too much on these. They’re just there for context.

Traits to probe are traits where you acted differently from top performers. That doesn’t mean they’re bad. It just means they’re worth asking about in an interview.

The company gets suggested questions to ask about those traits. It helps them learn more about how you think and how flexible you are. Even if you don’t match on some traits, you can still be a good fit.

Pymetrics (now part of Harver) is trusted by global employers to evaluate soft skills, decision-making, and personality traits through gamified assessments.

Here are some of the leading companies that use Pymetrics in their hiring process:

• BCG (Consulting): Uses Pymetrics at early stages to assess learning ability and adaptability.
• JPMorgan Chase (Banking): Evaluates attention to detail, risk tolerance, and decision-making.
• Accenture (Professional Services): Screens high volumes of candidates using behavioral-matching.
• Unilever (Consumer Goods): Matches candidates’ soft-skills with company culture.
• Mastercard (Finance): Focuses on emotional intelligence and learning agility.
• McDonald’s (Retail / QSR): Measures fairness, consistency, and teamwork.
• Blackstone (Investments): Identifies high-potential talent through cognitive profiling.
• UPS (Logistics): Assesses focus, reaction time, and multitasking ability.
• Hyatt (Hospitality): Screens for empathy, service mindset, and communication.
• BAT (British American Tobacco): Filters candidates globally using behavioral benchmarks.

Unlike traditional personality tests that rely on self-reported answers, Pymetrics games infer traits based on how you behave under real-time pressure and decision-making conditions.

 Instead of asking you whether you consider yourself "detail-oriented" or "empathetic," Pymetrics measures how long you hesitate before making a risky move, how quickly you adjust to new rules, or whether you prioritize fairness over personal gain.

Each of the 12 games isolates specific dimensions - like impulsivity, focus, effort allocation, and emotional intuition — and translates your micro-decisions into behavioral data points. The system then compares your trait profile to high-performing employees in similar roles across industries.

This behavioral profiling is not about "right or wrong" answers but about identifying your natural tendencies and matching them to jobs where they statistically lead to success. It’s a neuroscience-based model for scalable, bias-reduced hiring.

Unique Insight:
Because the system is adaptive and contextual, the same behavior may be interpreted differently depending on the job you're applying for. For example, moderate risk-taking might be ideal for sales, but not for regulatory roles. That's why there's no universal score — only fit.

The Pymetrics test isn’t something you can “cram” for like a traditional exam. But with the right preparation, you can understand how it works, anticipate what each game is evaluating, and make sure your behavior aligns with what the role demands. Here’s how to approach it step by step:

Step 1: Research the Traits That Matter for Your Role

Start by identifying the behavioral strengths that the role requires. A finance role might reward calculated decision-making and restraint, while a sales role may prioritize persistence and risk tolerance. Understanding this will help you make choices in the games that reflect those traits naturally.

Step 2: Learn the Logic Behind Each Game

Each game is based on a known psychological experiment. There’s no “correct” answer — but there is a pattern. For example, the Balloon Game is about how you evaluate risk under uncertainty, while the Stop Game assesses your impulse control. Learn how each game works so you’re not reacting blindly but responding with awareness.

Step 3: Practice with Purpose
Playing through the games without reflection won’t help much. The real value comes from reviewing your behavior: Did you hesitate too much? Did you switch strategies too early? Use practice rounds to surface tendencies you might not be aware of — and adjust them.

Step 4: Calibrate, Don’t Imitate

Avoid trying to fake a personality that doesn’t match who you are. The system is built to detect inconsistency. Instead, highlight the traits that matter for the role by leaning into your natural tendencies and being intentional in how you respond.

Step 5: Focus on Learning Agility

Some games are designed to see how quickly you learn and adapt — not how perfect you are at first. Treat each round as a chance to improve your response, not as a pass/fail moment. Employers want to see that you can adjust under pressure and learn from feedback in real time.

Step 6: Get Comfortable With the Format

Even if you understand the psychology, being unfamiliar with the timing, layout, or mechanics can throw you off. Practice in an environment that replicates the real test conditions so that you're not surprised on the day of the assessment.