Visual memory is your ability to hold what you have just seen. A visual memory test makes that concrete: squares flash on a grid for a moment, then vanish, and you click them back from memory. Each level adds another square and, as you climb, a larger grid, so the load grows in two directions at once.
What makes it hard
You get only a brief look, and that image fades quickly. Unlike a number you can rehearse by repeating it, a pattern of lit squares has no obvious inner voice to keep it alive, so you are relying on a short-lived visual impression. The grid growing alongside the count means that by the higher levels you are trying to fix a dozen or more positions from a single glance.
See the shape, not the squares
The biggest improvement comes from reading the lit cells as a shape rather than as separate dots. A scatter of individual squares is hard to hold, but the same squares seen as an L, a cluster, or a rough line become a single thing your memory can keep. Connect nearby cells into small forms and you carry far more with the same effort.
Use a wide, calm gaze
Darting your eyes from square to square during the flash actually loses information, because each jump costs time the brief display does not give you. A soft, wide gaze that takes in the whole grid at once captures more of the pattern. Stay relaxed; tension narrows your focus to a small area and leaves the edges of the grid unremembered.
Build it with practice
Visual memory responds to regular use. Short, frequent sessions beat occasional long ones, and you will notice the strategy of grouping cells into shapes becoming automatic over time. The same skill quietly helps with maps, board positions and diagrams, where a quick glance has to carry a lot.
Try it yourself
The visual memory test gives you three lives and a grid that grows as you climb. Try a run where you memorise each square separately, then one where you read the lit cells as shapes, and the shape-based run will usually take you several levels higher.