Chronotype test

Not sleep quality, and not insomnia — timing. Chronotype is your circadian preference: when your body would sleep, wake and perform if no alarm or obligation interfered. The questions probe it from several angles (free-day wake times, evening energy, caffeine sensitivity, weekend drift) because any single question is easy to answer aspirationally; the pattern across 16 is much harder to fake to yourself. What the test cannot do is diagnose anything — persistent unrefreshing sleep is a clinical conversation, not a quiz outcome.

Most chronotype tests return a type and ask you to trust it. This one returns the ledger: your result card lists every question, the answer you gave, and the points it added to each animal — so if the wolf score surprises you, you can see exactly which answers built it. A preference questionnaire you can audit is worth more than a "scientific" badge on a black box. The four-animal framing itself comes from Dr Michael Breus's The Power of When (2016); the research instruments it popularises are the MEQ and MCTQ, and the chronotype quiz page covers the background of the model.

Use it as a scheduling input, not a label. Your type sets your natural sleep window — compare it with the one you actually keep, and the gap is your social jet lag. Put demanding work in the peak-focus hours it gives you, respect the caffeine cutoff, and build the evening backwards from your natural bedtime with the wind-down routine planner. The circadian rhythm calculator turns the same inputs into a daily light-and-timing schedule. Then test the hypothesis: two weeks on the schedule will tell you more than any questionnaire can.