The Chimp Test Incident occurred on the 25th July 2021 after Bradley completed the "Human Benchmark" test in the final 30 minutes of the stream. The full VOD of the Chimp test can be found here: [1]
Prelude
Brad's fanbase had long been requesting that he complete some form of test on stream as a form of alternative entertainment if he didn't feel like playing one of his usual games and as a way to prove his self declared "High IQ". Bradley had been streaming Dota 2 for over 6 hours but on the final game of the night, ran into a "useless team" and lost. Brad insisted he played the game better than any of his team - pointing to the fact he had the most kills while conveniently failing to notice he also had the most deaths. After Brad's team exchanged words with him in the post game chat Brad declared he wanted to stop the stream, but quickly decided to instead do the Human Benchmark test before stopping as his fans had been requesting for days at this point.
After leaving the camera for 2 minutes and 20 seconds to go to the restroom, Bradley returned and immediately chugged a large quantity of Arizona tea - Ginseng with green tea and honey flavour. He panted from the effort of drinking so much of the Arizona tea so quickly before wiping his mouth and beginning the test itself, starting with a "Reaction Time test".
Urgh. 6 and a half hours and I already want to stop the stream. You know what? I'm going to go to the restroom, come back and let's do that uhh... the test thing. -Bradley Dragon
Reaction Time
To complete the Reaction Time test the user must wait for the red screen to turn green and then click. After doing this 5 times the user's result is the average difference in milliseconds between the screen turning green and them clicking across these attempts.
Bradley began the test by completing his first round in 235ms. He then attempted to cheat, spam clicking the test until he realised that just kept resetting it after 7 resets. Brad's second legitimate result came in at 294ms, but after scrolling down and noting the average of 273ms - which he was now above - he declared that "I don't think this test is really that fair." He immediately followed this up by getting a third result of 262ms and a fourth of 229ms before elaborating that he thinks the test is a "Hardware test" as there is "Such a thing as hardware lag". Bradley finished the test with a fifth result where he scored 215ms; giving him his final average result of 245ms.
Bradley's 245ms Average result placed him in the 33rd percentile of people who had taken the test so far. Bradley had no comment on this and proceeded on to the second test - "Sequence Memory".
Sequence Memory
The Sequence Memory test is very simple: there are a set of 9 buttons arranged in a 3x3 grid. When started, a button will light up and an audible sound effect is heard. The test is completed by clicking the buttons that lit up in order. Every time the end of the sequence is reached the sequence begins again, but the number of buttons that light up in order increases by 1.
Bradley completed this test silently and was doing very well until he seemingly forgot which square to start with and chose the wrong one on sequence 8 giving him a final score of 8. Brad misread the graph that showed other people's scores and incorrectly assumed his score of 8 meant he was "perfectly average". In reality he had scored in the 27th percentile on this test, putting him far below average.
Hahaha! Yep that's about right. I guess I'm perfectly average! -Bradley Dragon
Chimp Test
This is the test from which this incident takes its name. It's a very simple test where squares must be clicked in order according to their numbers. The amount of squares that must be clicked increases over time and, after clicking the first square, the rest are hidden from view. The user gets 3 "strikes" before their test is over and their highest result stands.
Bradley was immediately confused by the description of the test and made an error on his first attempt. He didn't seem to understand why he got a strike and verbally questioned it. Continuing onto the 6th round Bradley made another error mixing up the position of a 5 with a 6 earning him his second strike. At this point Bradley rejected that reality, claiming the number he clicked was "definitely a 5". The very next round after making this mistake Bradley made the exact same error and finished the test with a score of 6, getting angry and shouting at the test.
Recreating this result on the Human Benchmark website shows that Bradley's score of 6 here would put him in the 3rd percentile of those tested; however, Bradley decided to do this test a second time as he was unsatisfied with this result.
What?! That was definitely a 5. THAT WAS A 5! THE 6 WAS HERE! *sighs* let's try that again...
-Bradley Dragon
After restarting the test Bradley reached his previous position and immediately made the same error. He insists that the "test is cheating" and explains that he "clearly remembers" reality being different. The fact that Bradley failed in this way 3 times suggests that his short term memory struggles to hold more than 6 data points at once. More research is needed to be done on this matter, though anecdotal evidence from many Dota 2 streams and replay reviews backs this theory up so it is held in good standing.
Bradley continued on with the test, making another mistake on the 7th sequence attempt which he blamed on a miss click while stating that his mouse doesn't work properly. After continuing with the test he completed the 7th sequence on his second try, but then failed to complete the 8th sequence. This earned him a score of 8 placing him in the 8th percentile. Bradley was unhappy with his result for this test declaring "Fuck that one, I swear that one cheats" upon seeing his awful percentile result.
(Need other tests adding, clips adding + final summary of what this led to (crsd incident))