Do you test your cognition?

I've always wanted to.

I keep track of changes in my personality (Big 5) and political orientation (Political Compass and 8Values) every couple months, but I haven't been able to find any good (and free) neurocognitive assessment I can use to track cognitive performance.

As I understand, the problem of typical "intelligence" tests is that if they're done too frequently, it's easy to just get better at doing those particular tasks and getting higher scores, making them unsuitable for tracking your cognition in the long term.

I would love to see a FOSS webpage or tool that facilitated it, I believe there are lots of papers describing the exercises themselves, the problem is merely implementation.

> some standardised method, assessing working memory, verbal fluidity

> (I'm not talking about IQ obviously.)

Why not IQ? It's the most well-researched, standardised and validated test for cognition that we have. It's trendy to criticise IQ and IQ tests but any alternative will be supported by even less evidence, far less in fact.

I don't regularly test for the sake of testing. I regularly train for the sake of improving.

It seems to be an odd question, like asking a professional athlete if she regularly tests her speed and stamina. Most of the people in this forum are professionals who make money off their cognitive ability, and likely regularly improve theirs.

I don't have a perfect methodology for this. But every year, I solve harder problems and puzzles, read books I couldn't digest before, type and do mnemonics a little faster, find out which lanes on the road are faster, smile at more strangers.

I've had what I think was called "neurocognitive evaluation" which involved testing working memory, reaction time, some other memory tests (reproduce image, list as many words of certain type that I can), and probably some other stuff. So there's probably a standard list out there that doctors might now.