Strong band · 120+
You closed the matrix puzzles, including the ones running two rules at once — rotation plus colour, rotation plus count — where the answer cannot be reached by elimination alone. That is the signature of the band: mental rotation doing real work rather than a process of ruling options out. Twelve of the sixteen items here are matrix puzzles, so the score is dominated by one format, which is worth knowing before you generalise from it. Spatial ability in the wild shows up in packing a car, reading a map without turning it, and finding your way back — none of which a screen can ask you to do.
Mid-band · 90–119
Single-rule matrices went in cleanly; the composites — where rotation and colour or count move together — are where the time went. That is the ordinary shape here, and it says less about ceiling than about pace: given longer, most people in this band solve the same items. This scale is the one most sensitive to conditions. Screen size changes it, fatigue changes it, and a small phone display costs real points on matrices drawn for a larger frame. If the sitting happened on a phone between other things, read the number as a floor rather than an estimate.
Below sample · under 90
The matrix items did not go in this time. Before reading anything into that, two honest caveats. First, this scale is the most condition-sensitive of the four: it is drawn to be seen, so a small screen, a tired hour or a distracted room take real points off it. Second, it is not a measure of imagination or of visual memory — people who report vivid mental pictures do not reliably score higher here, because the items ask you to transform a figure, not to picture one. Manipulation and imagery are separate channels. This number speaks to the first and says nothing about the second.