What can you do with a paperclip besides the obvious? No player has tried a paperclip yet in our 90-second creativity test: be the first, and your ideas could appear on this page.
The first ideas will appear here after review.
The uses most people think of first. Ideas close to these lower the originality score.
List as many uses as you can for a paperclip in 90 seconds. You get a score out of 100 on fluency, flexibility, originality and elaboration, and your ideas can feature on this page after review.
Popular ideas include hold papers together, bookmark, reset button, unclog a hole, zipper pull. The most original answers go beyond the object's usual function: look at the rare ideas on this page for inspiration.
The test follows the alternative uses method: in 90 seconds, you list as many uses as possible for one object. Your ideas are scored on fluency (how many), flexibility (how many categories), originality (how far from the classic answers) and elaboration (how detailed).
It is a classic divergent thinking exercise, popularized by the psychologist J. P. Guilford, in which people list unusual uses for an everyday object. Our free version is a quick, informal training exercise, not a clinical assessment.