Hey there hotshot! We can see you strutting your stuff; your difficulty level starts at hard-core and it’s all uphill from there.

Alien invaders? Pah, they won’t be coming back anytime soon after the whupping you gave them, and as for those evil monsters, they’ll be the ones hiding under the bed when you’re around.

But what if there’s a game that’s beyond even your ability? A challenge that’s all but insurmountable? Do you laugh in the face of the impossible or do you down tools and give up? Go on then, prove it!

It’s not the infuriatingly difficult bits that will grind you down in the colourful assault course that is Geometry Dash, it’s the moments when you restart a failed level and die on a section that you have aced every single time previously. Once you realise that the sound is vital to the rhythm of success, things get slightly easier… but not for long!

This App Store classic has been fuelling rage quits for years with virtually every player falling by the wayside, literally and figuratively. It’s a game where you’re tasked with climbing a wall of objects using both a sledgehammer and every ounce of your patience. It’s beatable, of course, but you’d be in a fraction of a per cent of people who started out on the journey.

Unless you have a chess rating north of 2,800 then this game IS too difficult for you, and even then the best human player on the planet would lose to a competent machine. However, if you want a stiff challenge and a game that has quite some re-playability (around 1,500 years and counting), then you should start practising your Ruy Lopez and Sicilian Defense.

But wait, if these don’t float your competitive boat then we have even more tricky tests and testing tricks for you in these picks: