What competitor are you?

You rate 30 statements on a scale from strongly disagree to strongly agree. Each pillar rests on six statements, half of them reverse keyed. Agreeing with everything therefore does not push you automatically to one side.

The answers produce a value between the two poles for every pillar. Four of them make your type, the fifth describes what tension does to you and splits each type into two variants. The result shows you more than the letters: it shows how strongly you lean on each pillar. Where the values are close, we say so, instead of claiming a clarity that is not there.

Motivation goes back to self-determination theory by Deci and Ryan, which separates motivation that comes from the activity itself from motivation driven by external goals.

Benchmark follows achievement goal theory by Nicholls, known in the research as task versus ego orientation. It explains why an objectively good performance can feel completely different to two athletes.

Control rests on the work of Masters and Maxwell on conscious movement control. It describes when thinking helps and when it interferes with a movement you have already grooved.

Setting draws on extraversion from the five factor model and on research into group context in sport. Pressure, the fifth pillar, follows the challenge and threat model: whether tension is read as a challenge or as a threat changes performance measurably.

Sorting all of this into 16 types is a simplification. It makes results easy to talk about, but it is not itself a validated instrument. Once enough profiles exist, we will publish the reliability figures for the individual pillars here.

Do I need an account?

No. The test runs without one and the result appears immediately. Your answers stay in your browser and are not sent to a server for the scoring.

Is this a personality test?

Not in the usual sense. The sport profile does not describe who you are, it describes how you train and compete. Two people with similar personalities can come out very differently here.

Can my type change?

Yes. A change of club, an injury or a new coach can shift it. And if you sit close to the middle on a pillar, a second attempt may show the other side.