Build mental maths speed and accuracy

Develop your maths skills with personalised daily practice.

Daily Sharpen is designed to help you excel in quantitative entrance tests. Short daily practice with personalised problems tailored to your goals.

Daily Sharpen on a phone. Mental maths fluency. Tailored to your goals. Personalised daily problems. Adapts to your progress.

The mental maths edge

Competitive exams have time pressures where both speed and accuracy are essential. To achieve a high percentile score, fast maths is an advantage. Having key numerical facts in memory and a trained fast calculation ability can give you vital extra seconds to think about the question itself.

Example skillTarget pace

Squares to 30, forwards and in reverseInstant recall

Two-digit multiplication in your head< 5 seconds

Applying index laws like 2⁵ × 2³< 3 seconds

Simplifying surds like √48< 5 seconds

Solving linear equations< 5 seconds

Example target paces from the programme. Speed targets only apply once you are reliably accurate.

Try a Mini Sharpen

20 second Mini Sharpen

20 seconds of problems. See how many you can get.

Ready for your personalised Daily Sharpen programme?

How Daily Sharpen works

Set your goal. This helps tailor your target skills, for example to a specific entrance test.
Calibration. About 10 minutes of questions of varying difficulty to assess your starting point.
Complete the personalised daily Sharpen. Around five minutes on the skills chosen for you that day.
Build your habit. Keep it going over time and check progress on your dashboard.
Go further when you want to. Practise any skill on its own, and read the lesson behind it, whenever you want more than the day's session.