Brain tester, v 1.3, 12 Sep 1998. Freeware.

What you do to train your your physical body?
You can run, swim or use different types of testers.

What you do to train your brain?
You can complete iq tests, solve puzzles and you can also use trainers.


Brain tester is a program, which will help you train
your brain to work faster and more effective.

Brain tester is a game. This game require an intensive brain work to play
well, but it's a game! You won't be bored by your daily trainings, you just 
need to play 15-30 mins a day and your brain work will improve.

I'm not really sure that it will improve your brain itself :)
But I'm sure that with such brain controling/viewing program you can
train yourself to use your brain much more effective.


Brain tester is a pentix game plus lots of features added.

Brain tester features:

1. improved playfield.
playfield is not limited to 25 lines like in most pentixes, it has 100 lines,
so when you fill entire playfield it will scroll down, allowing more free space.

this should keep your mind from panic when your playfield is almost filled.

2. new keys added.
be sure to use mirror figure and exchange it with a next one. If you won't use
them, your tactical abilities will be limited a lot.

with these keys game is not so hard and you have much more variants to find
a best way to put figure down.

3. improved scoring system (iss).
iss counts:
original pentix scores
+ current playing speed
+ current playing quality
- holes percent
+ bonus (see tech.txt for detailed description)

score for each figure is your current brain rating (br).

4. playback.
hit backspace when you finish playing and it will show your last game. 
watch your brain work!

5. brain work indicator.
watch your brain: overall work (br), speed and quality via real-time graphs.

6. overall brain work indicator.
top br, speed & quality game results are stored and you can view them by graph.
this graph will tell you how you were doing for last year, month, week or day.

note! this feature works only in brain trainer.

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if you are interested how far you can improve your brain, here's example:

I was playing tetris & pentix games for about a 3 years when I tried such game
type in a first time. After first week my best playing speed result was 
about 6 lines per minute. Some months passed and now I can play at speed 40 
lines per minute, that is more than 6.5 times faster!


Small Tips:
Use good keyboard with highest type rate and lowest delay options. When I play
on bad keyboards my results are twice worser!
Music can greatly help you by relaxing or stimulating your mind. There's no 
build-in music, but I'm sure you can use your favorite one.


feel free to send any questions, ideas or comments,
as i'm open to any kinds of them.



Many thanks to Andrei Jovtiak and Ian Patterson, whose comments and ideas
helped me a lot!
Also thanks to Andrei Jovtiak for his nice icon.

have fun,
jb.

email: braintester@iname.com
url:   http://dix.dubna.ru/jb/brain
