Printable Schulte tables, 5×5, 7×7 and red-black, plus how to make your own

September 26, 2026 · 5 min read · Tyamka team

Two 5×5 Schulte tables, a 7×7 table and a red-black Gorbov table to print from this page, how to make new ones, and how paper differs from online.

Below are ready Schulte tables to print with your browser. There are two 5×5 tables, a 7×7 table and a red-black Gorbov table. There is no separate sheet or PDF file, you print this page itself. Each table was shuffled by the same code that shuffles the grids in our Schulte table online game. We checked that every number appears exactly once in the plain tables, and that each black number from 1 to 25 and each red number from 1 to 24 appears once in the red-black one.

If you have never done a Schulte table before, the article on what a Schulte table is explains the rules and where to look while you search.

5×5 table, number 1

Find the numbers from 1 to 25 in order.

5×5 table, number 2

The same size with a different layout. For a harder round, go from 25 down to 1.

7×7 table

Numbers 1 to 49. This one takes a good deal longer than 5×5, so do it when you are rested.

Red-black Gorbov table, 7×7

This table has 25 black numbers, 1 to 25, and 24 red numbers, 1 to 24. The tables on this page have no colour, so the red numbers are shown in bold. After printing, go over each bold number with a red pen, or circle it in red. Then find them by alternating colours, black going up and red going down, so black 1, red 24, black 2, red 23, and so on until red 1 and black 25.

How this variant works and why it is harder than the classic table is covered in the article on the Schulte–Gorbov table and other variants.

How to print them

Use your browser's print command, Ctrl+P on Windows and Linux or Cmd+P on a Mac. The page prints with the article text around the tables, so look at the preview and choose only the pages with the tables you want. For a bigger grid, raise the scale in the print dialog. A table that fills most of an A4 or Letter sheet is easier to work with than a small one in the corner.

If you do not have a printer at hand, most print windows can also save the page as a PDF to print later. Or copy a table onto squared paper by hand. It takes a few minutes, and the copy works as your table.

How to make your own tables

After a few rounds you will start to remember where the numbers are, and a familiar table stops being a search. You need new layouts. Three simple ways to get them:

• Numbered slips. Cut 25 small squares of paper, write 1 to 25 on them, shuffle them in a cup and lay them out in five rows of five. Copy the result onto a grid, or just use the slips as the table.
• A spreadsheet. Put the numbers 1 to 25 in one column. In the next column, put the formula RAND next to each number (it is called RAND in English versions of Excel, Google Sheets and LibreOffice). Copy that column and paste it back as values, so the numbers stop changing, then sort both columns by it and copy the numbers into a 5×5 block, five at a time.
• Turn a table around. Rotate a printed table by 90 degrees or turn the sheet upside down. It is the same set of numbers, but the layout feels new for a round or two. Upside down, 6 and 9 get confusing, which can be part of the fun.

For a red-black table, use two sets of slips, 1 to 25 in black and 1 to 24 in red, and lay them out in seven rows of seven.

Paper or online

Paper has some real advantages. There is no screen, nothing pings, and you can do it anywhere. Some people also like to point with a finger or a pencil, which keeps them on track.

The downsides are practical. You have to start and stop a stopwatch yourself. Nobody checks whether you really found 14 or just glanced near it, and a wrong answer on paper is easy to miss. You also run out of fresh layouts quickly unless you make new ones.

An online table takes care of those parts. In our game the timer starts and stops by itself, a wrong tap costs one of three lives, and every round gets a new grid. After each level you see your points, the speed bonus, the time, the number of mistakes and your previous best score on that level. The game also has levels paper cannot do, where the numbers reshuffle after every correct tap.

Paper suits a quiet round at a desk. The online version suits you better if you want the timing and scoring done for you, and the article on the Schulte table average time explains how to read your times. More games for focus and memory are on the all games page.