So for the past two weeks I ran a little test on myself. No, not an official scientific test, though I think those are overrated and overdone. I played several different types of music as I worked (I am a programmer). I tried rap, classical (piano), pink noise, white noise, mixture (all types), radiohead, ghostland observatory (my favorite), and a techno (house, trance). Oh, and if your wondering what white noise and pink noise are, they are like on the TV. If you do a google search you can find the two files I used on the web, they are both 10 minutes long and I run them in a loop. No country music, yuk. Oh, and I tried just headphones with out and sound/music playing, as well. I ran the test to see how much work I was able to do and how well I could concentrate.

The more high level result was that the music without words or no music was best (with and without music I still wore the headphones).

The best results are as follows, 1 being the best:

1. Techno music (this music plus a rockstar energy drink are amazing)
2. Classical
3. No Music
4. white noise & pink noise
5. radiohead
6. ghostland obs.
7. rap
8. mixture
9. whatever else

Hands done techno, especially trance music, gave me the best results. I found that anything with words gave me problems, this is of course due to the fact the ADHD people (aka Right brainers) think in images or pictures so we have to turn words into a picture of the word or what the word is (helicopter my mind doesn’t see the word but a picture of a helicopter). So when I listen to music especially rap or rock when they sing I almost make a movie of the lyrics in my head.

Hope this helps others. You all should try it.