SPLITTake the test16 types
Nobody is the same person in every room. SPLIT measures five things about you and finds the one that changes most, and where it peaks. That lands you in one of sixteen types.
5 traits × 3 rooms
two letters
A code is two letters. The first is the trait that varies most across your life. The second is the room where it runs highest.
type 00
One profile holds close to level on all five traits, in every room. No trait varies most, and no room runs highest. Both slots of the code come up empty, and empty is written as zero.
in trait order
Shield · Public
You keep a version of yourself for people you don't know well. It's friendly. It works. It isn't you. Nearly everyone who thinks they've met you has only met that version, and it has never bothered you enough to change.
Shield · Close
The people closest to you would say they know you well. They're describing someone you used to be. You'll tell a stranger something true and then skip it at dinner with your own family, because a stranger can't bring it up again in six months.
Shield · Alone
Other people relax when everyone leaves. You brace. The guard doesn't come down when you're alone, it goes up. There's something back there you've decided not to look at, and you've gotten very good at staying busy.
Press · Public
At work you're the one who handles things, and people count on that. Then you go home to the same problem you've been describing to friends for two years. You're not indecisive. By the time your own life needs a decision, there's nothing left to decide with.
Press · Close
You'll say the hard thing to someone you love. You'll also sit quiet in a meeting while a decision you hate goes through. The people close to you get all your nerve. Everyone else gets your patience. None of it ever gets spent on you.
Press · Alone
Nothing gets decided while people are watching. It gets decided late, alone, with the door shut. By the time you tell anyone, you've been living with it for weeks. People think you make big moves out of nowhere. You have never made one out of nowhere in your life.
Lever · Public
Someone is short with you at a counter and it costs you the afternoon. They forgot about it before they reached the parking lot. That is who sets your mood most days, and the people who actually love you get whatever is left of you after.
Lever · Close
A careless comment from a stranger is gone by lunch. The same words from your sister stay all week. She said them in passing and forgot them by dinner. You're still turning them over days later, and she'll never know she did it. You let people in anyway, and you pay for it every time.
Lever · Alone
You get the bad news and nothing happens. You finish the day, you drive home, you answer a text. Then you sit down and it lands all at once with nobody there to see it. Everyone tells each other how well you took it. You did take it. Just later, and alone.
Index · Public
Someone you've met twice forgets your name and you think about it for a week. People who know nothing about you get to decide how you feel about yourself that day. You can explain exactly why this is ridiculous. It changes nothing.
Index · Close
Three or four people hold the final say on who you are, and you'll go along with it. None of them know they have that job. To them it was a passing comment over dinner. To you it was a verdict, and you never thought to appeal.
Index · Alone
Nobody is in the room and you're still keeping score. You measure yourself against people who haven't thought about you in years. Something good happens and it doesn't quite count until someone else says so, which means it rarely counts.
Tether · Public
You can tell what kind of room you've walked into before anyone speaks, because you've already caught it. A tense office, a waiting room, someone else's bad phone call. You leave carrying all of it. Nobody handed it to you and nobody takes it back.
Tether · Close
When someone close to you is having a bad week, you have a bad week. You don't help them through it from the outside. You go under with them. You'd like to be the steady one, but that takes distance, and you've never had any.
Tether · Alone
Someone unloads their bad day on you and you're fine while they talk. It's after they leave that their day settles into you and stays. They feel lighter for having said it out loud. They sleep fine. Two days later you're the one still carrying a conversation that helped somebody else.
No dominant trait
You're the same person at work, at the kitchen table, and alone at midnight. Most people will tell you that's a good way to be. It also means there's no back room. No private version of you keeping something in reserve. That works right up until something happens that you don't want anyone to see, and there's nowhere to hide it.
You've read all sixteen.
You still don't know which one is yours.
50 questions · no mercy
Percentages come from real completed tests. For entertainment purposes only, not a clinical assessment