Brainback
product · brain score

One number. Every week. Honest to a fault.

Recall accuracy 40%. Calibration 30%. Explain-back 30%. Your weekly, decomposed, subject-broken-out signal on whether your learning is compounding — or just feeling like it is.

brain score · week of oct 6+6 vs last week
79/ 100 · honest to a fault
recall accuracy · 40%82
calibration · 30%71
explain-back · 30%84
by subject
calc 14182econ 20271cs 25188orgo61
the formula

Three components. One weighted sum. No dark patterns.

score = round(0.4·recall + 0.3·calibration + 0.3·explain-back) · 100. Nothing hidden. Nothing gamed.

40%

Recall accuracy

The fraction of recall reviews this week where you got the answer right. Simple, robust, hardest to game.

30%

Calibration

A Brier-style score: how well your confidence matched your outcomes. High-confidence answers should be right; low-confidence answers should be wrong. Miscalibration in either direction costs points.

30%

Explain-back

Average of your explain-back scores this week (out of 5, normalized to 100). Rewards students who make time for production practice — not just recognition.

calibration is the meta-skill — the one that moves fastest with honest confidence-tagging

The Brain score exists because “how much did you study this week” is the wrong question. The right question is “did any of it stick.” The score answers the second question, weekly, and refuses to answer the first.

Subject decomposition

Your overall Brain score is the composite. Underneath it, you see the same three components computed per subject. A student with an 82 in calculus and a 61 in orgo now knows exactly where to spend the next week. That’s the whole use of the dashboard.

The share card

Every Brain score generates a shareable OG image (1200×630). Dark, one large number, weekly delta. It’s an accountability artifact. Send it to a study partner, share it privately, or don’t — your call. We built it because a Brain score you kept to yourself was too easy to ignore.

Why weekly, not daily

Daily numbers are noise. A single all-nighter can spike recall for 24 hours and mean nothing for retention. Weekly is the shortest interval where the number tells the truth. So: weekly. Every Sunday at 23:59 UTC. In your inbox by Monday morning.

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