Nine tests, and which one to take first
They are sorted by what they actually type — because in this framework that is the whole distinction. Four of them ask about you. Four ask about a room. One maps everyone around you.
If you only take one
Take the four-type test. Everything else here is a specialisation of it: the same axis pointed at any room you sit in, a classroom, a meeting, a hiring process, or a room full of people you know.
If you have spent your life being called shy, take the introduction test instead. It asks the narrower question first, and for a lot of people it is the one that lands.
Four ask about you
Which mode you are built for — the room where attention has to be won, or the one where it is handed to you before you speak.
The four-type test
Two sliders about two rooms — the one where attention has to be won, and the one where it is handed to you. It returns which of the four modes you are built for, and the one move that follows.
Introvert, or contest-shy?
One scene, run twice: the same party, cold and then introduced. If the second version is a different person, what you have been calling shyness has a more precise name.
The Host Test
The shortest thing here. The same party twice, one slider each, and the gap between them is your delta — the number that says how much an introduction is worth to you.
The test, for students
The four-type test with a classroom added as one of the rooms, written for someone still in school. Built as a separate page on purpose, so nothing about a student is collected on the adult one.
Four ask about a room
Not about the people in it. The room is the thing that can actually change, which is the entire reason these exist. The first one reads a room you are only sitting in; the other three audit one you run.
The Room Test
Any room you are in and did not call — the standup, the seminar, Sunday dinner, the group chat. Eight questions about whether the floor gets handed out in there and whether anything said in it carries. Then send it to someone else in the same room: two people rarely read one room the same way, and the gap is the point.
The Classroom Test
Eight questions about your classroom, not your students. Does the room hand out floors, and does it ask enough of the people in it? Neither one alone is good or bad; the combination is the reading.
The Meeting Test
One recurring meeting, eight questions. Whether the floor gets handed out or won by whoever pushes in, whether anything is actually decided — and what the hour costs, in attendee-hours, from your own numbers.
The Hiring Room Test
Eight questions about a hiring process, not a candidate. Whether it hands people a floor or makes them win one, and whether what it assesses is the job or a proxy for it. Those are independent, which is the finding.
One maps everyone else
The same axis, pointed outward.
The Attention Compass
The only one that is not about you. Add two to eight people you know, answer three quick questions about each, and get the whole group plotted on one chart — who takes the room, who has to be handed it.
One is not a test at all
The same distinction, played instead of measured.
Demagogue
A game, not an instrument — it measures nothing about you and tells you nothing about yourself. You rule a republic for twenty-four seasons, and taking the crowd is the correct move almost every single one of them. Roughly nine in ten first reigns end the way the title suggests.
And four for a business
The same distinction applied to a funnel, an audience, or an AI product. They live on the other site — grantedattention.com — because they are for a different job, not because they are a different idea.
- The Overdraw Self-Scorer — Maps a sales sequence into deposits and asks, and shows where it grabs before it has earned.
- The Granted Share Calculator — Tally your last twenty customers and get your Granted Share — how much of your audience you own versus rent.
- The Conferral Design Scorecard — Scores an AI product on ten criteria, with every score tagged by the evidence behind it.
- Real or Rented? — A daily judgment game: five artifacts, one question each — was this trust earned, or bought?
None of these gates your result behind an email address — you get the reading first, always.
The Classroom, Meeting and Hiring tests send no event counts and store nothing: your answers stay on your device. Like any website, our host counts anonymous page views. The Room Test counts that a run finished and which room came back — never your answers, and never what you called the room.
All free. No sign-up. Nothing to install.
A self-reflection tool based on the Taken or Given framework — not a validated psychological assessment or a diagnosis.
There is a whole theory under these, published free: the Reading Room.