Card Counting Trainer
Free Hi-Lo training, graded by the same engine as the rest of this site. No signup; your stats save on your device. If you are new to counting, read how card counting works first. It takes five minutes.
Card tags
A card appears. Tap its Hi-Lo value: +1 for 2–6, 0 for 7–9, −1 for tens, faces, and aces. You're done with this exercise when you stop translating (“king… face card… minus one”) and just see −1. Build a streak.
Speed count
The classic countdown. Cards flash at your chosen pace; keep the running count in your head and enter it at the end. Start with a quarter deck at Relaxed and work up. The benchmark: a full deck at Casino pace or faster, perfect, every time. Real dealers deal at roughly 0.5–0.7 seconds per card.
Deck estimation
The running count means nothing until you divide it by the decks left in the shoe, and the only way to know that is to read the discard tray by eye. Glance, estimate to the nearest half deck, subtract.
True count conversion
Running count ÷ decks remaining, truncated toward zero: running +9 with 2.5 decks left is +3, not +4. Truncating never bets edge you don't have. This has to be instant.
How to practice
Ten minutes a day beats an hour on Sunday. Do tags until your streak is long, then speed counts, adding pace before length. A fast quarter deck teaches more than a slow full deck. Two habits pay off later: count cards in pairs (a low and a high cancel to zero on sight), and practice with the TV or music on, because a casino is not a quiet room.
The full ladder
This page is for repetition. The Card Counting Course is the structured path: seven lessons from tags through bet sizing and the essential deviations, each with a graded Checkpoint. The training table puts it all together with hands from a persistent shoe, count spot-checks, and bet-ramp feedback, free like everything here. One prerequisite: make sure your basic strategy is automatic on the training table, because counting on top of a shaky chart loses money faster than not counting at all.