What stands out
Up to two scales that sit furthest from the middle in either direction. These are the properties other people notice about you first, and the ones that cost you most when the environment works against them.
Your result, line by line
You have four percentages, eight scales and a few labels on the screen. This page says what each of them means, in the order you meet them, without the arithmetic behind it. If you want the arithmetic, that lives on the method page.
- 01The formula is a mix, not a verdict: all four temperaments are always present, they differ in weight.
- 02Scale levels describe a position on this test's scale, not a rank among people.
- 03Nothing on this page is about your personal numbers: the examples here are made up on purpose.
Why four percentages and not one type
The first thing on your result is a bar with four shares. People expect a single word there, and that is exactly what we refuse to give.
- 38Sanguine
- 27Choleric
- 21Phlegmatic
- 14Melancholic
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Read the gap, not the winner
38 against 27 is a clear lead. 38 against 35 is not: those two work in you almost equally, and the label of the first one alone would be a coin toss.
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The small share is not noise
The 14 at the end still shows up, usually in the tired half of the day and under pressure. It is the part of you that surprises people who only know your first type.
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The four always add up to 100
You cannot be more of one type without being less of another. That is why the bar is a mix and not four separate meters.
This is also why a person who takes the test twice a year apart usually keeps the same shape with the numbers moving a few points. The shape is the thing to read, not the last digit.
The leading type and the second one
The first two shares do most of the work, and the order between them matters more than people expect.
The first one is your default
It is what runs the day when nothing forces you: your normal pace, your normal way into a room, your normal first move on a task.
The second one is your backup
It shows up when the first one runs out or hits resistance. Most of what surprises people about themselves lives here, not in the first type.
One type far ahead is a pure profile
When the leader is at least 14 points ahead of the second, we call the profile pure. It is not better or rarer in any meaningful way, it just means the second type argues less.
Order changes the profile, not just the wording. Sanguine ahead of choleric and choleric ahead of sanguine are two different identities with two different names, because the same pair with a different lead behaves differently in the same room.
When nothing stands out
Some results come back with four shares close together and no clear leader. This is a real profile, not a failed measurement.
A balanced profile means your position sits near the centre of the field: your activation and your stability are both close to the middle. In life it usually reads as adaptability. You take the shape of what the situation needs, and the cost is that it takes you longer to say what you want by default, because there is no strong default pulling you.
It also means the labels are less useful for you than the eight scales are. Someone with a clear lead can read their type and recognise themselves. If you are balanced, skip the type names and read the scales: that is where your actual differences live.
One honest warning: answering carelessly also produces a flat result. If the reliability note is showing next to your formula, take the test again when you have twenty quiet minutes before deciding that you are balanced.
The eight scales and their levels
Under the formula there are eight numbers. They are the measured part of the result, and the four percentages are derived from six of them.
- Low, under 30
- Middle, from 30 to 70
- High, above 70
Low, under 30
The lower end of the scale. It is a pole, not a shortage: low tempo means unhurried, not slow-witted, and low sociability means self-contained, not unfriendly.
Middle, from 30 to 70
The widest band and the most common place to land. It says the property does not pull you in either direction, which is information about you, not a gap in the measurement.
High, above 70
The upper end of the same scale. It says the property is pronounced. It does not say that it is good, and no level on this test is a score to improve.
The words next to each number are pole names, not grades. Each scale has two of them, one at each end, and both describe a normal way to be. If you want to know what a particular scale measures and how it shows up in a day, that is a page of its own.
Levels here are measured against this test's own scale, not against other people. We do not show percentiles until we have enough completed and validated results to build norms honestly, and the result page says so in plain words.
What stands out and what argues
Two short blocks on your result are built from the same eight numbers, and they are the ones people quote back to us most often.
What argues
Places where one scale disagrees with the axis it belongs to: high energy with slow recovery, high sociability with high sensitivity. Contrasts are not errors. They are the reason two people with the same leading type can feel nothing alike.
A worked example: high energy and low recovery in one person reads as a strong start and an expensive landing. Plenty of fuel for the first three days of anything, and a longer climb back after a hard week than the first number alone would suggest.
The reliability note
Six of the statements are not scored. They only check whether the set of answers can be read at all. If two or more of them fail, a note appears next to your result.
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The result still opens
Nothing is blocked or hidden. The note is there so that you know how much weight to put on the numbers, not to take them away from you.
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The usual cause is speed
Clicking through while doing something else is what raises it most of the time. The second most common cause is answering as the person you would like to be rather than the one who lived last month.
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What to do
Take it again when you have twenty uninterrupted minutes, and answer for your ordinary weeks rather than your best or worst ones. The new result replaces nothing: the old link keeps working.
What is free and what the paid part adds
The line between the two is drawn once and stated here in full, so that nobody has to buy anything to find out what buying gives.
Free, and already on your result
- Your portrait: the profile you landed in, written for that profile
- The formula: four percentages and how pronounced the profile is
- The eight scales with their levels and pole names
- What stands out and what argues, computed from your numbers
- Your strengths and what each of them costs
- Your rhythm and energy through a day
- How other people usually see you
- Who you get along with easily
- Three practical steps to try next
Paid, and added to the same page
- Relationships and love
- Work and career
- Talking and conflict
- Family and daily life
- Energy, stress, recovery
- Growth and habits
- The library of your eight scales
- AI analysis of your combinations
The honest sentence about this: the paid part adds depth by area of life, not new numbers. Your eight scales and your formula are already complete on the free result and do not change after a purchase. What you are paying for is the reading of them: six spheres written for your combination, the full library of scale interpretations at your levels, and an analysis that ties them together.
What to do with this in the next week
A result you only read once is entertainment. Four things that turn it into something useful.
- 01
Check one thing against life
Take the scale that stands out most and watch for it for three days. Agreeing on paper means little, recognising it on Tuesday afternoon means a lot.
- 02
Fix one environment, not yourself
If your tempo is high and your recovery is slow, the cheapest change is fewer sharp starts in a week, not learning to recover faster.
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Say one thing out loud
Tell one person you work with what your first type does under pressure. Most friction between people is a mismatch of pace, and pace is easy to name.
- 04
Come back in six months
Take the test again and compare shapes rather than digits. What moved is worth thinking about, what stayed is worth planning around.
What your result does not say
Four things it is worth knowing before you use these numbers for a decision.
It does not say what you are capable of
Temperament describes the manner of your behaviour, not its ceiling. People with every profile do every kind of work well, at different costs to themselves.
It does not name your profession
It describes the environment that costs you less energy. Which job that is depends on your skills and what you actually want, and neither is measured here.
It does not diagnose anything
None of these scales is a symptom, and none of the levels is a condition. If something in your life feels beyond your control, this is not the tool for it.
It does not predict how you will act in one moment
It describes a tendency across many days. Any single evening can look like the opposite of your formula, and that is normal rather than a contradiction.
Frequent questions
01My two top types are almost equal. Which one am I?
Both, and that is the useful answer rather than a dodge. A gap of a few points means the two run you in turn: one usually starts things and the other takes over when the first one meets resistance. Read the pair as a pair, and read your eight scales, which do not average anything away.
02Can my result change if I take the test again?
The numbers will move a few points, and the shape will usually stay. Bigger jumps happen for two reasons worth telling apart: a real change in life circumstances, or answering in a different state, such as in the middle of a hard week. If you want a comparable second reading, take it in an ordinary week, not an unusual one.
03What does the percentage actually mean? Is it my share of the population?
No. It is the weight of that temperament inside your own result, and the four weights always add up to 100. It says nothing about how many people share your profile, and we do not publish that number because we do not have honest norms yet.
04Is a high score better than a low one?
No, and this is the single most common misreading. Each scale has two normal ends: unhurried and fast-moving, self-contained and outgoing, steady in noise and finely tuned. High means pronounced, not good. The cost and the advantage sit at both ends.
05What exactly does the paid analysis add?
Depth by area of life, not new measurements. Your formula and your eight scales are complete on the free result. Paid adds six spheres written for your combination, the library of all eight scales read at your own levels, and an AI analysis that connects them. The numbers do not change after a purchase.
Your numbers are the part this page cannot fill in
Everything above is the same for everyone who takes the test. What it applies to is not: eight scales and a formula that belong to one person. If you have not taken it yet, it is about twenty minutes and the result is free.
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