Road sign drill
Road Sign Test: how many can you name in 60 seconds?
One sign, three choices, a clock. Symbol signs only — nothing with the answer written across the front, because reading STOP is not a test of anything. This is the fastest way to find out which signs you actually know cold.
60-second drill
How many road signs can you name in 60 seconds?
Symbol signs only — nothing with the answer written across it. Three choices, no time to think it through, which is exactly how the test uses them. Your best score stays in this browser.
Why speed is the right test
Recognition, not reasoning — that is what the exam is actually measuring.
On the written test you are not asked to reason a sign out from first principles. You are asked whether you know it. A sign you have to think about for eight seconds is a sign you will get wrong under exam pressure, and this drill is designed to surface exactly those.
That is also why every sign with words on it sits this one out. A red octagon reading STOP asks you to read English, not to know a sign. What is left is the harder and more useful half of the chart: the symbols, where a diamond with a deer on it and a diamond with a cow on it mean different things and only one of them is on your test.
If you are missing the same ones every run, go and read the shape and colour rules — an octagon can only mean stop, a downward triangle can only mean yield, a yellow diamond warns and an orange one means a work zone. Those rules let you name a sign you have genuinely never seen before.
Read: shapes and colors, and how to read a sign you have never seen →
Every sign in the drill
The symbol signs only — each one has its own page with the meaning, shape, colour and MUTCD code.
Work zone signs
Guide signs
Regulatory signs
School zone signs
Warning signs
- Turn
- Curve
- Reverse Curve
- One-Direction Large Arrow
- Chevron Alignment
- Cross Road
- Side Road
- Stop Ahead
- Yield Ahead
- Signal Ahead
- Merge
- Added Lane
- Road Narrows
- Narrow Bridge
- Divided Highway
- Divided Highway Ends
- Two-Way Traffic
- Hill
- Slippery When Wet
- Right Lane Ends
- Grade Crossing Advance Warning
- Bicycle
- Pedestrian
- Large Animals
- Emergency Vehicle
- Low Clearance Advance
Questions people ask
- Why is the stop sign not in the drill?
- Because it says STOP across the front. Any sign that carries its own answer in words — STOP, YIELD, DO NOT ENTER, WRONG WAY, SPEED LIMIT — is a reading test, not a recognition test, so the drill uses only the symbol signs. The word signs are all in the full chart.
- How many road signs are on the DMV test?
- Sign questions are typically about a third of the written test, and the symbol signs are the half of them people actually lose marks on. Every sign in this drill is one the question bank draws from.
- What counts as a good score?
- Compare it against your own last run rather than anyone else's. What matters is whether the same signs keep coming back in the missed list — those are the ones costing you marks on the real test.
- Are these the real signs from the test?
- They are drawn to the federal MUTCD standard that every state handbook is built on, with the official name and code for each one. The written test uses the same standard.
- Is my score saved anywhere?
- Only in your own browser. There is no account and nothing is sent anywhere — clear your browser data and the best score goes with it.
Independent study aid. Not affiliated with, endorsed by or connected to any Department of Motor Vehicles or government agency. Signs are drawn to the federal MUTCD standard; no exam result is guaranteed.