Brain training – finding ways to stretch and exercise your brain – is important for a long happy life. Fortunately, the Internet is flush with games, tools, and web apps that will boost your mental power and leave your brain sweating. Here are more than a dozen sites to try today.
Brain Training Games
BrainBashers – BrainBashers are a collection of brain teasers, riddles, games, puzzles, and optical illusions. This impressive brain game site updates games and puzzles regularly.
Sharp Brains – Sharp Brains provides 50 top brain training teasers and games everyone will enjoy. These games help to work your language, logic, math, memory, and attention skills.
Braingle – With over 17,000 user-rated brain training games, Braingle is the perfect place to boost your brain power. As an added bonus, this site also offers exercises to increase memory, vocabulary, creativity, and stress management.
Brain Metrix – Brain Metrix is designed to build brain fitness. The site can increase your memory, reflex, and concentration through a collection of brain training activities.
Brain Teasers Network – With daily brain teasers and an assortment of popular and challenging games, Brain Teaser Network is a handy site for building mental capacity.
Brain Boosting Techniques
About.com – This site features 10 useful strategies for improving your memory. These techniques are simple to incorporate into everyday life.
Illumine Training – Illumine Training offers workshops to increase creativity, mental agility, and concentration. The workshop on mind mapping is an excellent way to expand your mind and organize ideas.
Web Apps
Flash Card Machine – Flash cards are a super way to study and retain important information. Flash Card Machine features a free web app for creating and sharing your own flash cards.
Mindmeister – Mindmeister is a brainstorming app that increases your brain power through creative thinking. The app allows you to organize and visualize your ideas through mind mapping.
Twivia – Twivia is a Twitter app that exercises your memory through daily trivia questions.
Misc Tools
LibriVox – Books are an excellent way to keep your brain fit and active. LibriVox offers lots of free audio books to keep your mind moving.
Visuwords – Visuwords creates a visual neural network to demonstrate how words associate with one another–a great way to exercise your memory and build your vocabulary.
JumpStart by WebMD – Exercise is the best way to keep your body and mind healthy. WebMD illustrates how exercise can make you think clearly and perform better.
Another good site with logic games: https://bmgomg.com
Thanks for sharing the list very helpful.
Thanks a lot for your list, I can only suggest that you add new brain training games site https://Gamentis.com to the list.
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Wow! I find this post awesome and informative. Thanks for sharing these sites that is so helpful not only for me but also to those who want to keep a healthy and sharper mind. I also have my website that might also help.
If you like word games then take a wonder on over to creativitygames.net They post a new game each week based upon random words.
Nice Collection…Thank you very much……..
Good morning, we recently launched our online brain fitness program called BrainGymmer, you can register for free on http://www.braingymmer.com , play free games, take free tests, and upgrade to a premium membership for the full package. I hope you will consider adding us to your list. Thanks, regards, Louis.
There’s lots of games avaialble online. Personally I’ve found the best way to improve is to find two or three you like and keep repeating. It works for me.
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Great tools.
Thank you.
Hi,
I found this page very interesting and resourceful. I run a site iqtestexperts.com which also contains brain teasers, puzzles, riddles. We also have an IQ test on our site. I was just wondering if you could add my site your page.
Thanks,
Matt
Ahhh well !! Thanks for suggesting those sites ! I have visited all of them. Yes exercising our brains daily is as important as eating daily ! lol!
This is great! Also check out Lumosity.com
thanks a bunch, keep up the good work
Alex – Thanks for the reminder. I’ve just added it. – Jeff
hey Jeff-
I keep coming across this post in my explorations of brain fitness sites, and am anxious to get my site on the list as I think it would be a great resource to include for your readers. Since I last contacted you I have added 4 new games, 5 new memory exercises, a section on brain fitness tips and a lot more. So I ask you again to have a look and consider adding me to your list. Let me know if you have any questions…
Thanks a bunch,
Alex
Thanks for the comment, Alex. We’ll take a look at playwithyourmind.com – Jeff
Hi Karen-
Thanks for taking the time to put this list together, it’s got a lot of good links. If you have a moment, please consider adding my site playwithyourmind.com to your Brain Games section. The site contains over 100 original brain games & exercises including a brain fitness program, a memory workout, and daily competitions.
Thanks for the 25 sites to improve the brain. All the sites are really relevant with all the required information to develop one’s concentration as well as to boost one’s memory.
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