JustResearching

Totally counts as research.

Live findings

Research suggests: clicking things is, on balance, good for you. Sample size: everyone.

Research suggests: the 3pm slump responds best to one (1) game of Snake.

Research suggests: reaction time peaks exactly 11 minutes before a meeting you forgot about.

Research suggests: productivity is, technically, a social construct.

Research suggests: "just one more game" has never once been one more game.

Research suggests: looking busy accounts for roughly 90% of looking employed.

Research suggests: Alt-Tab is the most-used keyboard shortcut in this building.

Research suggests: a watched progress bar never loads. A played game always does.

Research suggests: studies confirm: the boss always walks in during your high score.

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Field Station · est. this lunch break

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productive tab.

A peer-reviewed* collection of small games for office workers, students, and anyone with somewhere else to be. Loads fast. Looks like work. Hides on command.

*not actually peer-reviewed

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Daily Workle

Jun 22 · 5 letters · 6 guesses

Today’s word puzzle. Same word for everyone.

17 studies · sorted by “relevance”

Reaction Time

Measure your reflexes. Allegedly for science.

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Quick Maths

Sums under deadline pressure.

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Word Scramble

Unscramble before the timer judges you.

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Higher or Lower

Guess the trend. Pretend it is forecasting.

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Memory Sequence

Repeat the pattern. Forget your deadlines.

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Typing Speed

Words per minute. Looks a lot like real work.

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Odd One Out

Spot the outlier. Ten questions. Gets harder.

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Tabby Jump

Sprint past obstacles. And responsibilities.

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Snake

A classic growth strategy.

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Brick Breaker

Break things. Productively.

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2048

Merge tiles to reach 2048. The grid fills up faster than your to-do list.

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Solitaire

The original alt-tab.

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Minesweeper

Risk assessment training.

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Inbox Zero

Shoot the syncs, decline the decks. Clear the backlog.

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Towers of Hanoi

Move the stack. One disc at a time. Logic counts as research.

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Flappy Glider

Pilot a paper plane through the filing room without clipping the cabinets.

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Memory Match

Flip matching pairs. Easy, Medium, or Hard. Wrong guesses cost a second each.

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