Road sign sprint
One minute on the clock. A sign appears, you pick what it means from three options, and the next one comes straight away. When time runs out you see every sign you missed and the right answer.
How it works
- You have 60 seconds. The clock starts with the first sign.
- Each correct answer adds one point. The streak counts answers in a row without a miss.
- Keys 1, 2 and 3 (or A, B and C) pick an option.
What does this sign mean?
What a timed round tells you
Knowing a sign and knowing it on sight are two different things. A sign you know costs you a second; one that only looks familiar can take a minute of going back and forth and leave you doubting the next few answers. Sixty seconds is too short to reason your way through, so the round sorts the signs you know from the ones you are guessing at. The list at the end is your study list.
What to do with your misses
Do not start another minute straight away. Go down the list of misses at the end of the round, look at each one and read what it asks of you, then play again. Replaying without looking only practices the doubt.
If several misses come from the same family, such as the curve signs or the ones about lanes merging and ending, what needs work is the whole family. The California road signs guide walks through the logic of shapes and colors that groups them.
The wrong options are real meanings
Both wrong answers in every question are the meanings of other signs in the game. The game never offers two signs from the same family side by side, such as Stop and the All-way plaque, or Do not pass and No passing zone, because a question with two defensible answers does not test anything.
When your score stops climbing, move on to a California practice test, where signs share the page with right of way, speed and parking.
Nothing is saved: reload the page and the score is back to zero.
The signs in this sprint
54 signs: 18 regulatory, 32 warning, 1 school, 2 railroad and 1 work zone. The full list on the games page shows each one with what it asks of you, the section of the federal manual that defines it and, when the California Driver's Handbook covers it, the handbook page.
