Memory impairment can accompany various brain disorders. An original Czech test was developed for their easy detection in clinical settings and is based on combination recall of one short sentence and six gestures. The new Amnesia Light and Brief Assessment (ALBA) test consists of a one-time encoding of a six-word sentence “Indian Summer Brings the First Morning Frost”, sequential demonstration of six gestures and their immediate recall in any order (TEGEST) and finally recall of as many correct words as possible of the original sentence. Two groups of 62 patients with mild impairment of cognition (MIC) and 62 sociodemographically paired control elderly were examined using a combination of both subtests. The patients with MIC (the Mini-Mental State Examination median score 24 (interquartile range 22-27) points) compared to the control individuals (Montreal Cognitive Test 28 (26-29) points) recalled significantly fewer words of the sentence (medians 1 vs. 5 words), gestures (3 vs 4 gestures) and had a lower sum of correctly recalled gestures and words (3 vs. 9) (for all differences p <0.00001). The optimum cut-off score was ≤ 3 correctly recalled words of the sentence (sensitivity 89% / specificity Sp 77%, area under the receiver operating characteristic curve (AUC) 0.89, ≤ 3 correctly recalled gestures in TEGEST (Se 77%, Sp 89% AUC 0.88) and ≤ 7 for their ALBA sum (90%, Sp 74%, AUC 0.92).