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Early bird or night owl - and how steady is your rhythm? Everybody has their best hours of the day, most people just spend them sitting in meetings and doing small stuff. The test works out when your thinking is at its best and what a shifted routine does to you - and places you in one of six profiles on both counts.
The test does not just measure whether you enjoy getting up, but when your thinking is at its best - and what a change of routine does to it.
The chronotype axis places you between lark and owl and shows which part of the day your best window for hard work typically falls into.
The second axis measures what a shift in your routine does to you - a night out, a shift, a trip across a time zone. Some people are not thrown off at all, others pay for it with several slow-starting days.
When to do the hardest thing, where to move routine, when to fit in exercise and when to go to bed. The advice differs from profile to profile, because so does your peak.
For each statement you say on a 1-5 scale how well it describes you. Answer for ordinary days, not for the week when you were going to bed at three.
From your answers we work out both axes right away, place you on the rhythm map and determine which of the six profiles is yours.
The extended version gives you the whole profile of your rhythm and a plan for the day tailored to it - including what to do when your routine does not suit you.
The profile comes from two axes: when you have energy (lark - dove - owl) and how steady your rhythm is (flexible - steady). Three bands times two rhythms make six combinations.
A chronotype test works out when during the day you have the most energy and the clearest head - whether you lean towards being a lark or an owl, and how strong that leaning is in your case. A chronotype is not a habit or a question of discipline: the body's internal clock runs a little differently in every person, and the hour at which thinking comes easiest moves with it. Our test has 24 original items, twelve for each axis, and gives you a score on both.
The result rests on two axes. The first is your chronotype, meaning when you have energy. At one end stands the lark with a morning peak, at the other the owl whose head switches on after dark, and between them the dove peaking around midday - where most people belong. The second axis is rhythm stability, meaning how much a shift in your routine throws you off. A steady rhythm means a predictable day and the certainty of knowing when things will go well for you, but also several slow-starting days after every late night; a flexible rhythm bends without protest, but it also drifts on its own when nothing holds it. Where the two axes meet you get six profiles, from The Morning Clock to The Night Surfer.
The test draws on research into circadian rhythms and chronotypes, but the items and the scoring are our own. Take the result as an indicative self-discovery profile and a starting point for planning your day, not as a sleep diagnosis - if sleep problems trouble you over a long period, that belongs with a doctor, not in an online test. The rhythm of your day is connected to other things too: research finds that evening types put things off somewhat more often, which makes the procrastination test a good companion to your chronotype, while a morning leaning tends to go with conscientiousness, one of the five dimensions in the Big Five test. Add those two to your chronotype and you see the whole picture.
Two things at once. The first is your chronotype, meaning when during the day you have the most energy and the sharpest concentration - the scale runs from lark through dove to owl. The second is rhythm stability, meaning how much a shift in your routine throws you off: a night out, a shift, a trip across a time zone. The combination of both axes places you in one of six profiles, and with it you get your typical peak of the day.
Neither. Every chronotype has its own best window, it simply falls at a different hour - the lark has a head start in the morning, the owl in the evening, the dove in between. The difference is not made by the type itself but by how far your schedule lets you do the hardest thing inside your own window. Owls have it harder only because school and most offices start early, not because they get less done.
Partly. Habits will move it by roughly an hour, exceptionally by two - mainly morning light, a regular wake-up time and dimmed light in the evening. The underlying leaning stays, though, and forcing it never pays. It does shift on its own with age: children tend to be morning types, in adolescence and early adulthood the rhythm moves towards the evening, and with the years it comes forward again.
About 3 minutes. There are 24 short statements, and for each one you pick how well it describes you.
The whole profile of your rhythm - what your day looks like, how the rhythm shows up at work and at home, and where it most often pinches. Plus a plan for the day built on your chronotype: when to do the hardest thing, where to move routine, when to fit in exercise and meals and when to go to bed. And on top of that a section for the times when your routine does not suit you - shifts, early starts or travel.
24 questions. 3 minutes. Instant results.
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