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.
Keep your head still unless a drill says otherwise. These modes are about eye movement, attention, and focus, not neck movement.
Train smooth visual tracking by following one moving target.
Try this drillKeep your head still and let your eyes do the work.
Track the ball as smoothly as you can instead of jumping ahead of it.
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.
Train quick refocus by snapping your eyes to each new target position.
Try this drillKeep your head still and start with your eyes on the ball.
When it jumps, find the new location and actually focus on it before the next jump.
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.
Sharpen selective focus by tracking the brightest target through moving distractions.
Try this drillKeep your head still and lock onto the main, brightest ball.
Follow it like Smooth Pursuit, but do not let the darker balls pull your eyes away.
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. You follow the motion and keep choosing the right ball when similar ones compete for your attention.
Train peripheral awareness by holding focus on the center cross.
Try this drillLook only at the black cross in the middle.
Do not follow the balls with your eyes.
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.
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.
Use it as a quick visual warmup or active screen break.
Sharpen your visual warmup before FPS games with tracking, refocus, peripheral awareness, and character movement reading drills.
Sharpen focus between code, logs, dashboards, terminals, tickets, and multi-monitor work.
Give tired screen eyes a quick active break after reading, meetings, or too many tabs.
Change speed and target size first. They usually have the biggest effect on difficulty and control.
Speed, size, shape, color, opacity, and trail change the feel of the moving drills. Lilac Chaser has its own ball color and scale controls.
Smooth Pursuit is the best starting point when your goal is following one moving target as steadily as possible.
Reaction Jumps is best when you want to find a new target position quickly and lock on before the next move.
Multiple Distractions is the best choice for practicing selective attention under visual clutter.
Lilac Chaser is the best choice when you want to hold your gaze on the center and notice change away from it.
Change speed and target size first. They usually have the biggest effect on difficulty and control.
Keep sessions short and deliberate. The goal is focused practice, not pushing through discomfort.
These sources explain the eye movements and visual effects behind the drills. They do not establish that FoveaFlow improves eyesight or game performance.
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