Psychic Test: Coin Toss

This psychic test can be used by those working toward developing psychic abilities and by those seeking psychic tests to measure their current abilities. It has the added benefit of being able to be used to train psychokenetic abilities by attempting to change the outcome of the toss and/or precognitive abilities by attempting to know the outcome of the toss, before it physically happens.

The only equipment you will need for this psychic test is a coin with a clearly defined head and tail side. The common United States quarter works fine for this. You will also need a score pad to track your results.

As a psychic test to test your current abilities, your goal with the coin toss will be to know what the outcome of the toss will be prior to physically tossing the coin. You do not want to attempt to change the outcome in any way. This ability is generally known as precognition.

Your score sheet will include two columns, one of correct answers and one for incorrect answers. With each toss of the coin, place a tick mark in the column to show your answer was correct or not.

As a psychic test to test your psychokenetic abilities or just exercise them to increase their strength, your goal will be to physically change the outcome of the coin toss. Chose whether you want every toss to come out heads or tail and use nothing but brain power to attempt to affect the outcome of each toss.

To score this test, you will need 3 columns. The first will show whether you where attempting to create a head or tail result. Then have 2 columns, one for correct and one for incorrect. Decide before the toss of the coin whether you are attempting to force a head or tail result and mark your paper accordingly. After the toss, a simple tick mark in the correct column is fine.

I suggest you work in sets of 10 to 25 tosses each, all attempting to force the same head or tail outcome. After a set is complete you can change your goal for the next set if you like, however it will be easier to see statistical anomalies if you keep your goal the same for a minimum of 1000 total tosses.

Your goal in both cases is to score significant over the score that would accepted as pure chance. In this case, since there are but two outcomes, chance would be 50/50. Either you are wrong or right.

The only way to know if you are showing a statistical anomaly is to do enough trials to prove the anomaly. This means you would need to run at the very least, several hundred trials because at any one time you could have a run of 15, 25 or more correct answers, yet it is still chance at work. It is only by showing an above chance score over the course of hundreds or even thousands of trials that it can be proved.

I suggest you work in groups of 10, 25 or 100 trials, keeping score for both the individual trials set and an overall, ongoing score. This will allow you to see if on some days your score is well above average or well below, which may help you determine if specific techniques you have tried are increasing or decreasing your score.

The procedure is nothing more than determining if you are going to attempt to influence or predict the outcome, then tossing the coin and logging whether you were successful or not for each attempt.

Keep in mind 50/50 would be pure chance however a running score of 53/47 or even 55/45 would not be a statistical anomaly. You are looking for score more like 60/40 or 65/35 to show a defined ability.

Authors Note: this psychic test may seem exceptionally simple, but do not approach this test as being unworthy of your full attention. It is important to keep good, quality records and to complete hundreds (actually thosands) of trials.

Think about it from this aspect. Look at people who use their muscles to earn their living. Lets use a pro football player as an example. How much time does a pro football player put into practicing their sport? Most start practicing as a child and they continue to practice throughout their entire career. If at any given time they stop practicing for a long period of time, they have to work doubly hard and for longer hours to get back to where they were before they stopped.

Developing psychic abilities rarely happens overnight. Most people find that as they practice one form of ability, other abilities start to open up on their own, but if you want to be the world next greatest psychic, plan on spending some time on a regular basis, practicing your trade.