Focus games

Play one game tonight. Open Today, tap Split-step reaction, and give it one honest 60-second run. That score is your athlete's first personal best; every run after is measured against that line and nothing else. Eleven games are waiting, but one is enough, and it counts toward winning the day.

How to use it (the boring, correct answer)

Daily-ish, 5 minutes. Two or three games, one serious attempt each. More isn't better; switched-on is better.
Match day: the Match Day card includes a quick reaction-game activation: 60 seconds to wake the engine before warm-up.
Watch the trend, not the day. Personal bests and trends appear in The Proof, inside the Mental Pathway. A bad day is noise; a flat month means switch games for a while.

The philosophy: sharpen, don't replace

The focus games are a supplement, not a substitute. Five focused minutes is a full dose. And like everything in TierBreak, scores are self-referential: the only line on the chart is the athlete's own history. No leaderboards, ever: a 12-year-old should be chasing yesterday's self, not a stranger's reaction time.

MATCH POINT mode

Most games have a pressure mode: one mistake ends the run. It exists to make the athlete feel the difference between playing free and playing careful, and to practice staying free anyway. Pressure-mode best streaks are tracked separately.

Focus mode

When a game opens, the rest of the screen fades away: no other cards, no distractions, just the drill. It releases automatically when the run ends.

The eleven games

Game	What it trains	On court
Focus drill	Selective attention under interference	Seeing the ball, not the noise
Split-step reaction	Simple reaction speed	First move after the opponent's contact
Anticipation timing	Interception timing on a hidden trajectory	Reading where the ball will be, not where it is
Don't bite	Go/no-go impulse control	Not biting on the short ball that's actually deep
Long-match focus	Sustained attention and catching your own lapses	Point 90 of a three-setter
Track the ball	Multiple-object tracking	The pro-academy tracking drill, in your pocket
Serve-zone read	Choice reaction in return language (T / body / wide)	Return-of-serve decisions
Toss rhythm	Internal timing: keep tempo blind	The metronome behind a repeatable serve
Auditory reaction	Reaction to a sound cue, not a visual one	Answering the ball off the strings, or a late line call
Dual-task	Splitting attention across two demands at once	Tracking the ball while reading your opponent's position
Peripheral vision	Catching cues at the edge of sight	Seeing the whole court and the incoming ball together

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