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FoveaFlow Guide

Your guide to FoveaFlow’s free online eye trainer. Choose a drill for visual tracking, quick refocus, or peripheral awareness, then make it your own.

Try Smooth Pursuit How to practice

Smooth Pursuit

Train smooth visual tracking by following one moving target.

Reaction Jumps

Train quick refocus by snapping your eyes to each new target position.

Multiple Distractions

Sharpen selective focus by tracking the brightest target through moving distractions.

Lilac Chaser

Train peripheral awareness by holding focus on the center cross.

Before you start. Practice software, not medical care. Stop if you feel eye strain, dizziness, headache, nausea, or any other discomfort.

How each drill works

Keep your head still unless a drill says otherwise. These modes are about eye movement, attention, and focus, not neck movement.

Smooth Pursuit

Try this drill
  1. 1.

    Keep your head still and let your eyes do the work.

  2. 2.

    Track the ball as smoothly as you can instead of jumping ahead of it.

  3. 3.

    Use predictable paths for steady tracking. Use random paths or hard turns when you want more target-search work.

What it trains

Smooth Pursuit helps train steady tracking, moving-target focus, and controlled eye movement across more of your usable range. Predictable paths build rhythm and control. Random paths and hard turns add more visual search and reaction demand.

Reaction Jumps

Try this drill
  1. 1.

    Keep your head still and start with your eyes on the ball.

  2. 2.

    When it jumps, find the new location and actually focus on it before the next jump.

  3. 3.

    Use slower speeds for clean refocusing. Raise the speed when you want a sharper reaction drill.

What it trains

Reaction Jumps trains quick target acquisition, saccadic eye movement, peripheral detection, and fast refocusing. It is useful when you want to react to a new visual target without moving your head first.

Multiple Distractions

Try this drill
  1. 1.

    Keep your head still and lock onto the main, brightest ball.

  2. 2.

    Follow it like Smooth Pursuit, but do not let the darker balls pull your eyes away.

  3. 3.

    Start with fewer distractors, then add more when you can keep the target cleanly.

What it trains

Multiple Distractions trains selective attention, visual tracking under clutter, and target identity. The job is not just following motion. You also have to keep choosing the right object when similar objects compete for attention.

Lilac Chaser

Try this drill
  1. 1.

    Look only at the black cross in the middle.

  2. 2.

    Do not follow the balls with your eyes.

  3. 3.

    Let the disappearing gap move around the fixed circle. With steady focus, the colored balls may fade and the missing spot can look like a moving green afterimage.

What it trains

Lilac Chaser trains fixation, peripheral awareness, visual attention, and noticing change away from the point you are looking at. For gaming, it can be a short warmup for catching movement near the edge of your vision without constantly shifting your gaze.

Motion paths

Start with a predictable path for steady tracking. Try random movement or hard turns when you want to spend more time finding the target. Each link opens Smooth Pursuit with that path selected.

Best fit

A short break from the usual screen.

Use it as a quick visual warmup or active screen break, not as medical care.

Gamers

Sharpen your visual warmup before FPS games with tracking, refocus, peripheral awareness, and character movement reading drills.

IT professionals

Sharpen focus between code, logs, dashboards, terminals, tickets, and multi-monitor work.

People on screens all day

Give tired screen eyes a quick active break after reading, meetings, or too many tabs.

Controls

Change speed and target size first. They usually have the biggest effect on difficulty and control.

Motion and target

Speed, size, shape, color, opacity, and trail change the feel of the moving drills. Lilac Chaser has its own ball color and scale controls.

Screen scale

Viewing distance and CSS pixels/cm help speed settings match your display setup more closely.

Guide FAQ

Which drill is best for steady tracking?

Smooth Pursuit is the best starting point when your goal is following one moving target as steadily as possible.

Which drill is best for quick refocus?

Reaction Jumps is best when you want to find a new target position quickly and lock on before the next move.

Which drill is best when the screen feels busy?

Multiple Distractions is the best choice for practicing selective attention under visual clutter.

Which drill is best for fixation and edge-of-vision awareness?

Lilac Chaser is the best choice when you want to hold your gaze on the center and notice change away from it.

Which settings should I change first?

Change speed and target size first. They usually have the biggest effect on difficulty and control.

How long should a session be?

Keep sessions short and deliberate. The goal is focused practice, not pushing through discomfort.

Research and background reading

These sources explain the eye movements and visual effects behind the drills. They do not establish that FoveaFlow improves eyesight or game performance.

  1. Visual guidance of smooth pursuit eye movements
  2. Spatial allocation of attention during smooth pursuit
  3. Saccadic reaction time factors
  4. Role of peripheral vision in saccade planning
  5. Visual learning in multiple-object tracking
  6. Lilac chaser illusion
  7. FPS Eye Training Warmup (HIGH FPS)

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Start slow. Adjust as you go.

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