How people actually score on CogniPrep's practice versions of the Arctic Shores tasks, game by game, and how much a score moves between someone's first and third attempt. Everything here is counted from our own practice sessions, anonymised and added up. None of it comes from Arctic Shores, and no employer sees it.
Snapshot taken 8 November 2026, from sessions played between 19 April 2026 and 8 November 2026.
Each of our Arctic Shores practice games, apart from Balloon, ends with a score out of 100. It is our own measure of how well you did that task on that run, built from what the task rewards, such as accuracy, speed or how far you got. Every game weighs these differently, so a 60 on one game and a 60 on another are not the same result. Compare a score only with other scores on the same game.
After a game we also show a percentile: the share of saved practice sessions on that game that your score beat. The charts below show the same kind of spread, counted more strictly (see how we counted, further down), so they will not match it exactly.
Each bar is a band of 5 points and shows the share of sessions that scored in it. Every chart uses the same scales, so the bars can be compared across games. To place a score of your own, open the table under a chart: it gives the score at each tenth of the spread.
Arctic Shores name: Direction
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8 in 10 sessions scored between 61 and 84. Based on 4,239 sessions from 1,796 players.
| Percentile | Score |
|---|---|
| 10th | 61 |
| 20th | 68 |
| 30th | 74 |
| 40th | 77 |
| 50th (median) | 80 |
| 60th | 81 |
| 70th | 82 |
| 80th | 83 |
| 90th | 84 |
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8 in 10 sessions scored between 23 and 57. Based on 2,230 sessions from 1,052 players since 29 August 2026.
| Percentile | Score |
|---|---|
| 10th | 23 |
| 20th | 24 |
| 30th | 32 |
| 40th | 34 |
| 50th (median) | 37 |
| 60th | 42 |
| 70th | 45 |
| 80th | 48 |
| 90th | 57 |
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8 in 10 sessions scored between 19.9 and 62. Based on 260 sessions from 120 players since 29 August 2026.
| Percentile | Score |
|---|---|
| 10th | 19.9 |
| 20th | 32 |
| 30th | 37.7 |
| 40th | 42 |
| 50th (median) | 46 |
| 60th | 49 |
| 70th | 52 |
| 80th | 57 |
| 90th | 62 |
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8 in 10 sessions scored between 43 and 68. Based on 888 sessions from 140 players.
| Percentile | Score |
|---|---|
| 10th | 43 |
| 20th | 49 |
| 30th | 53 |
| 40th | 56 |
| 50th (median) | 59 |
| 60th | 61 |
| 70th | 63 |
| 80th | 65 |
| 90th | 68 |
Arctic Shores name: Code Breaker
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8 in 10 sessions scored between 38 and 58. Based on 308 sessions from 131 players since 29 August 2026.
| Percentile | Score |
|---|---|
| 10th | 38 |
| 20th | 41 |
| 30th | 42.1 |
| 40th | 44 |
| 50th (median) | 45 |
| 60th | 47 |
| 70th | 49 |
| 80th | 53 |
| 90th | 58 |
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8 in 10 sessions scored between 43 and 95. Based on 345 sessions from 119 players since 5 September 2026.
| Percentile | Score |
|---|---|
| 10th | 43 |
| 20th | 60.8 |
| 30th | 68 |
| 40th | 72 |
| 50th (median) | 78 |
| 60th | 82 |
| 70th | 87 |
| 80th | 90 |
| 90th | 95 |
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8 in 10 sessions scored between 59 and 80. Based on 584 sessions from 128 players.
| Percentile | Score |
|---|---|
| 10th | 59 |
| 20th | 65 |
| 30th | 67 |
| 40th | 69 |
| 50th (median) | 71 |
| 60th | 73 |
| 70th | 75 |
| 80th | 77 |
| 90th | 80 |
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8 in 10 sessions scored between 65 and 95. Based on 1,068 sessions from 189 players.
| Percentile | Score |
|---|---|
| 10th | 65 |
| 20th | 72 |
| 30th | 77 |
| 40th | 80.8 |
| 50th (median) | 83 |
| 60th | 86 |
| 70th | 89 |
| 80th | 92 |
| 90th | 95 |
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8 in 10 sessions scored between 40 and 67. Based on 480 sessions from 107 players since 29 August 2026.
| Percentile | Score |
|---|---|
| 10th | 40 |
| 20th | 44.8 |
| 30th | 47 |
| 40th | 50 |
| 50th (median) | 53 |
| 60th | 56 |
| 70th | 59 |
| 80th | 62 |
| 90th | 67 |
Balloon (Arctic Shores calls it Balloon Burst) has no better or worse result. It records how you weigh risk against reward, so our version gives no score, and we do not publish a spread that could be read as a target. It has 2,843 counted sessions from 1,978 players so far.
The games below have fewer than 200 sessions or 100 players since their scoring last changed. A spread from so few would mostly show who happened to play, so we leave it out until they have more.
Arctic Shores says no practice is needed for its assessment, and warns that following outside guides can lead to poor or invalid measures. What our data can show is narrower: how scores on our own versions moved for people who played the same game at least three times.
The chart shows the gameswhere the typical player scored higher on their third attempt than on their first. The dots compare the median first and third attempts. The typical change is the middle of each player's own change, so it can differ from the gap between the dots.
Dots are median scores out of 100, with gridlines every 25 points.
Median first attempt 73, median third attempt 82.
Median first attempt 34, median third attempt 37.
Median first attempt 55, median third attempt 58.
Median first attempt 68.5, median third attempt 70.
Median first attempt 71, median third attempt 82.
People who come back for a third go chose to keep practising, so they are not a random sample, and part of any gain is simply knowing the controls and rules. Only players whose first three sessions were all complete and inside the counting window are included, and a game needs 50 such players before we work out its change.
Order, Security Door and Balance have a spread above but not yet 50 players with three valid attempts.
Balloon, Arrows and Sequence are free to play with a free account.
Play freeArctic Shores facts checked against these sources.Practice figures are CogniPrep's own, from the snapshot dated 8 November 2026.
