The friendship test
Some people make the first move; some answer. Some are at their best with one person; some with the room. This test reads how friendship actually happens in your life and names your style: the Opener, the Gatherer, the Harbour, or the Hearth.
It takes about ten minutes. The questions are scenes from real friendships, not abstractions, and the whole thing is worked out here in your browser: your result appears the moment you finish, and any names you type stay on this device.
Built from published friendship research, in Kinu's own vocabulary; how it was built is on the method page.
They stay in your browser. The test runs entirely on this device: names are never sent to us, never put in a web address, never written into anything you share, never included in analytics. What does leave the device is small and nameless: anonymous counts, such as that a test was started or finished. When you finish, a little more goes with them: your own five positions on the test's five readings, how clearly each one leans, the style words they add up to, whether this was your first time or a retake, and which language you took it in, with no names and no individual answers attached. Sharing your full answers for research is a separate choice we ask about after your result, switched off unless you switch it on.
Ten minutes or so. There is no timer and no penalty for stopping; if you leave, your answers wait in this browser and the test picks up where you left off.
No. No account, no email, nothing behind a lock. You get the whole result without signing in to anything.
Yes, whenever you like. Friendships change, so a result taken this year can honestly differ from next year's. When you retake it, your previous positions stay visible beside the new ones, so what you see is the friendships moving, not the result flickering.
The Opener reaches first, one person at a time. The Gatherer reaches first and brings people along. The Harbour answers, remembers, and stays. The Hearth is where people gather. Each has its own page, with its gifts and its honest costs.