Body Language Quiz: How Well Do You Read People?
Ten real workplace situations. Pick what you see, say how sure you are, and get your score and your reader profile on screen straight away. No sign-up to see your result.
- Score shown on screen
- Built on published behavioural research
- Anonymous unless you ask for the breakdown
Everyone misses something. Find out what you miss.
Ten real situations. Pick what you see, say how sure you are, and get your score and your reader profile straight away: the one thing your eye skips, and what it costs you.
Where do you read people? Pick your room.
Each role has its own set of situations. Every set is ten questions, two per skill, so the result reads the same way whichever you pick.
What the body language quiz measures
Every question is tagged to one of five skills. Your result shows where you are strong and the one skill your eye skips, so the score is a diagnosis rather than a rank.
- 01
Facial expressions
The quarter-second on the face before the polite version arrives.
- 02
Posture and gestures
What the body below the face is doing while the face stays composed.
- 03
Voice and paralanguage
Pace, pitch and pauses: the soundtrack most people never listen to.
- 04
Congruence and deception
Whether the words and the body agree, and what to weight when they do not.
- 05
Rapport and influence
What you do with an accurate read in the next ten seconds.
Try one before you start
This is the kind of situation you will get. The quiz is not a picture of a face with four emotions under it. It is a moment you have actually been in, and the question is what you would do with it.
After each answer you say how sure you were. Confident misses are the expensive kind, so calibration is part of your result.
During a salary negotiation, a candidate says 'I'm very flexible on compensation' while pressing their lips into a thin line and gripping the armrest of their chair. What are you observing?
- A self-restraint cluster — they're suppressing their true position
- Boredom with the negotiation process
- Physical discomfort from the chair
- Confidence and openness — they're genuinely flexible
Lip compression paired with a restraint grip is a self-restraint cluster: the body is holding back the position the words are conceding. Weight the cluster over the claim.
The five reader profiles
Your weakest skill names your profile. Nobody fails: each one is a specific, fixable gap with its own page, its own cost and its own course.
The Literalist
You take words at face value and miss the body contradicting them.
Read the profileThe Face Fixator
You are locked on the face, and blind to what the body below it is doing.
Read the profileThe Broad-Strokes Reader
You read the room and the posture, and miss the quarter-second on the face.
Read the profileThe Mute Observer
You read the picture and never the soundtrack.
Read the profileThe Analyst
Your reads are accurate. What you do with them next is the gap.
Read the profile
Body language quiz: common questions
Yes. Ten questions, your score and your reader profile are all free and shown on screen. The emailed breakdown with every situation you missed is free too; it just needs an address to land in.
About three minutes. Ten situations, one answer and one confidence rating each. There is no timer.
No. Your score and profile appear on screen the moment you finish. The email is only for the full breakdown: the situations you missed, the read on each, and your radar chart.
Each question belongs to one of five skills, two questions per skill. Your weakest skill names your profile. Confidence ratings are scored separately, so a confident wrong answer shows up as a calibration gap rather than just a miss.
The five skills map to the categories used in published non-verbal communication research, and every read names the behaviour it rests on. The [Research page](/research) lists the sources behind each skill.
Yes. Teams get a shared link and an aggregate view of where the group is strong and where it is blind. See [For Teams](/for-teams) for how that works.
Ready to see what you miss?
Three minutes, ten situations, one honest answer.