Beginner
More time, larger targets, slower pacing, shorter sessions, or fewer rounds depending on the challenge.
3 rank points per completed runBeginner to Expert
Difficulty Levels
Choose Beginner, Standard, Advanced, or Expert on every tracked challenge. Each mode changes the task and keeps its own private local record history.
Four modes
Choose the amount of challenge you want.
Every tracked challenge now separates personal bests and recent results by difficulty, so a Beginner record never overwrites an Expert record.
Standard
The original Ruth Performance Lab settings. Standard personal bests continue to power the 0–100 Lab Performance Score.
5 rank points per completed runAdvanced
Faster sequences, smaller targets, longer sessions, denser grids, or stricter task demands.
8 rank points per completed runExpert
The strongest local mode with the most demanding configuration available for each supported challenge.
12 rank points per completed runPass 5 guidance
Difficulty suggestions unlock as you build experience.
Suggestions are optional guidance, not locks. Every difficulty remains available at any time.
3 completed Beginner runs
After three Beginner runs and a local Beginner record, the challenge suggests moving to Standard.
5 completed Standard runs
Five Standard runs unlock the suggestion to try the harder Advanced configuration.
5 completed Advanced runs
Five Advanced runs unlock the Expert suggestion. Expert remains the top local mode.
Higher difficulty, higher medal
Your highest completed challenge difficulty determines the medal shown in your Medal Cabinet.
Open Medal Cabinet →Difficulty changes the task, not just the label.
Reaction and keyboard tests can require more trials. Aim Trainer uses smaller targets and more hits. Memory challenges use larger patterns, faster displays, or shorter viewing times. Tracking uses a smaller, faster target. Focus and search challenges increase their rounds or visual density. Typing uses longer passages with stricter accuracy requirements.
Because those versions are not directly interchangeable, the site stores separate records for Beginner, Standard, Advanced, and Expert. Recent-result boards also filter to the difficulty currently selected on that challenge page.
How to switch difficulty
Open any tracked challenge and use the difficulty selector immediately above the game. Changing the setting reloads the challenge so the new configuration starts cleanly.
Why the Performance Score stays on Standard
The existing 0–100 Lab Performance Score is intentionally based on Standard personal bests. That gives the site one consistent baseline. Harder modes contribute to Lab Rank instead of distorting the original score.