• Improved facial and name recognition. Being able to remember faces and names more easily is of course important for everyday life, and in particular in professional situations. If you find yourself struggling with titles and names, it can feel extremely embarrassing. Basic memory skills improve this and make the associations come much more naturally to you. Though a little basic, online games are a nifty way to practise this skill. They often include remembering both famous and new ones to test a range of different memory types.
• Better fact and knowledge recollection. If you’re currently studying, a strong memory will make life much easier for you. Being able to hear a fact once and remember it is much more desirable than requiring endless rote learning, and will make exams a lot less stressful. There are even specific techniques you can use just for study preparation. This is definitely one area where people tend to think you either “have it or you don’t”, but the truth is you can definitely improve it on your own. One way to practice and improve this is through creating mnemonics.
• Increased short term memory retention. Whether it’s remembering why you went out to the shops or being able to recall a phone number, short term memory has a range of uses in daily life that will make things easier for you in a simple way. Memory games are a simple and fun way to exercise this.

If you’re interested in improving your memory, there are a number of simple online tests that give you a measure of where your current skills are rated, and allow you to track any progress. There are also online games and exercises that are designed to be done every day to slowly but gradually build your faculties.

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Guardian Memory Test. Created by memory master Ed Cooke, this is a comprehensive collection of mental challenges designed to test different aspects of your memory skills. There are five different sections – visual memory, remembering objects, learning languages, learning lists and integrated memory skills. This ensures that the test covers a full range of areas, not just one or two that you may be unusually good or bad at. It’s self-timed and requires a bit of personal honesty to complete fairly.

Dr Devi. Memory Quiz. Used by TIME magazine in an article on memory, this is a basic cognitive and memory test designed to give you a very basic overview of your skills. It also asks about your thoughts and experiences to get a picture of how your memory affects your everyday life.

Oxcoll Visual Memory Test. For those who think they have a good photographic memory, this is an interesting test to prove whether or not this is the case. You’ll be shown a series of images, and then asked questions about them. You’re allowed as long as you need to study the images, and they’re definitely very challenging.

Though not completely scientific, these tests are a fun and informative way to check how your memory skills are developing. 

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