Verbal fluency task
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- Tests
- Verbal fluency (Generation): producing many fitting words quickly under a rule.
- How
- Name as many words as possible from one category, such as animals, in one minute. Usually spoken; here typed.
- Best AI
- n/a
- Humans
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- Our items
- 3
- Generation gap, overall
- -34.9
Example item
A specimen written for this page. Live items are similar but never shown, so posted answers can't spoil them.
Type as many different animals as you can in 60 seconds, pressing Enter after each.
(a) Typed in 60 seconds
Human vs AI
What the benchmark reports, and where the faculty stands overall
Humans
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This benchmark doesn't report a human figure.
Generation overall · faculty reference, 0–100
Measured on other tests, not on Verbal fluency task.
Human: GDPval, expert vs expert (parity by design). AI: GDPval wins or ties, GPT-5.5 (vendor-reported).
How we mirror it
Three categories with lists we can check: animals, countries, and fruits and vegetables. One minute each; type a word and press Enter.
Each word is checked against the list, ignoring capitals, accents and plurals; repeats count once. Typing is slower than speaking, so the pass marks are provisional until our own data sets them.
Items are original, versioned, and assigned at random, so a posted answer spoils only one variant.
What we record