Catalyst and co-founder, EyeQBoost
Reuben Bykersma
Reuben is the Catalyst and co-founder of EyeQBoost. He has been teaching since he was 15, and he writes and builds the free worksheets and brain games on this site.
Teaching experience
While still at high school, Reuben co-founded a music tutoring business with his brother. It grew into a tutoring academy offering subject tuition, and over five years they taught more than 200 students, in person and online.
He went on to teach upper-primary English at a private school, and he works as a private tutor across English, maths, science (biology, chemistry and physics), humanities and geography. Most of his students are in primary and lower-secondary school, with some upper-secondary students in selected subjects.
Reuben finished high school with the Junior Dux award and the Principal’s Award in his final year. For the past year he has focused full time on EyeQBoost.
Speaking
In July 2026, Reuben gave a guest lecture, Understanding the Psychology Behind Effective Learning, to psychology students at Asia Pacific University of Technology & Innovation (APU), as part of the School of Psychology’s Cognitive Psychology module. He covered how information overload, visual processing and attention affect reading and how eye movements shape reading efficiency, then walked students through EyeQBoost’s visual exercises and placement test.
How he builds our resources
Every worksheet series and brain game Reuben creates targets one specific skill, such as working memory, attention, visual perception or spatial reasoning, and is based on published research on how children learn. The studies behind each one are linked on its page, along with an honest note on what practice can and cannot do.