A very interesting problem is measuring something like general intelligence. I’m not going to delve deeply into this topic but simply want to draw attention to an idea that is often implied, though rarely expressed, in the framing of such a problem: the assumption that an "intelligence level," whatever it may be, corresponds to some inherent properties of a person and can be measured through their manifestations. Moreover, we often talk about measurements with a precision of a few percentage points, which suggests that, in theory, the measurement should be based on very stable indicators.

What’s fascinating is that this assumption receives very little scrutiny, while in cases where we talk about "mechanical" parameters of the human body (such as physical performance), we know that such parameters, aside from a person’s potential, heavily depends on numerous external factors and what that person has been doing over the past couple of weeks.

In this text, I will discuss my experience not with measuring my intelligence level but with measuring my intellectual performance level under various circumstances.

Why Could This Be Useful?

There could be several practical benefits from this:

If there are simple ways to temporarily boost your "intellectual shape", it is obviously good to know about them. By regularly measuring your intellectual performance based on easily adjustable factors, you might discover such methods.
It’s useful to recognize when, on a particular day, you are consistently less sharp than usual. On such days, it’s wise to avoid tackling problems that are at the limits of your intellectual abilities, or at least to be skeptical of decisions made on those days and double-check them later.
If there are identifiable factors that predict drops in intellectual performance, you can plan around them and schedule critical tasks during periods of peak performance.
There are likely applications in the field of biohacking.

Several Requirements to the Method for Measuring Intellectual Performance

After some thought, I arrived at the following requirements for a measurement method:

The result should somehow reflect the manifestation of intellectual abilities — such as pattern recognition, decision-making, prediction, optimization, attention to detail... With all other factors remaining the same, an improvement in these abilities should correspond to an increase in the resu

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