Central New Yorkers, are you smarter than a

fifth grader

Harrisburg, Pennsylvania resident? A new study of America's brainiest cities suggests you are.

Syracuse was named the No. 20 "brainiest" city in the United States by The Atlantic Cities, a special project website of The Atlantic Monthly.

The ranking comes from Lumos Labs, whose tracking software Lumosity measured "brain performance" or cognitive capacity of 169 metropolitan areas to see which U.S. cities are the smartest. The data is based on 20 million users of the company's online games, which include word puzzles and face-name recognition challenges.

Essentially, scientists were able to assess the game users' cognitive performance, using a sample size of more than one million people. Their overall "braininess" was measured with scores in five key cognitive areas: memory, processing speed, flexibility, attention, and problem solving skills.

If you believe their analysis, Charlottesville, Virginia, is the nation's brainiest city. Rounding out the top five are Lafayette, Indiana; Anchorage, Alaska; Madison, Wisconsin; and San Francisco-Oakland-San Jose, California.

Rochester was ranked 13th brainiest city, and Plattsburgh, New York combined with nearby Burlington, Vermont for the 18th brainiest metro area. Syracuse was the only other city in New York to make the list, coming in at No. 20.

Ten in the top 25 are home to a major college or university, but having more young adults had no effect on city scores. According to MLive, the results were controlled for gender and age and gender, so it's not just the strong presence of Syracuse University and other schools in the area that gave the Salt City such a high score.

"Since our analysis controlled for age, the reason they score well is not simply that they have a lot of young people," Lumosity scientist Daniel Sternberg explained to The Atlantic Cities site. "Our analysis seems to show that users living in university communities tend to perform better than users of the same age in other locations."

America's 25 brainiest metros, according to Lumosity's metrics from The Atlantic Cities:

1. Charlottesville, Virginia

2. Lafayette, Indiana

3. Anchorage Alaska

4. Madison, Wisconsin

5. San Francisco-Oakland-San Jose

6. Cedar Rapids-Waterloo-Iowa City & Dubuque, Iowa

7. Honolulu, Hawaii

8. Johnstown-Altoona, Pennsylvania

9. Champaign & Springfield-Decatur, Illinois

10. Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minnesota

11. Boston-Manchester (Massachusetts/New Hampshire)

12. Austin, Texas

13. Rochester, New York

14. Gainesville, Florida

15. Fargo-Valley City North Dakota

16. Lansing, Michigan

17. Santa Barbara-Santa Maria-San Luis Obispo, California

18. Burlington-Plattsburgh (Vermont/New York)

19. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

20. Syracuse, New York

21. Baton Rouge, Louisiana

22. Columbia-Jefferson City, Missouri

23. La Crosse-Eau Claire, Wisconsin

24. Harrisburg-Lancaster-Lebanon-York, Pennsylvania

25. Springfield-Holyoke, Massachusetts

What do you think? Is Syracuse deserving of the title of 20th brainiest city in America?