Most readiness quizzes ask how you feel. This one asks about your actual life: how long since the breakup, how many evenings a week you could genuinely give someone, and what you would say if a date asked what you are looking for. It scores three separate things, emotional availability, practical capacity and intent clarity, because being ready in one area and not the others is exactly how promising starts fall apart in week three.
How the readiness quiz works
Pick a ten-question quick read, an eighteen-question standard run, or twenty-six questions for the sharpest picture. Each question is a concrete situation, your ex posting a happy photo, your Friday-night energy after a real week, what success this year would even mean, and each answer feeds one of three area scores. Some answers also carry a loneliness signal, which feeds a separate read on whether you want a relationship or relief from being alone.
The three things that decide readiness
Emotional availability is whether your past is filed away and your self-worth stands on its own. Practical capacity is whether your week, energy and budget have an actual slot for a person. Intent clarity is whether you can say what you want and why, right now, without flinching. A high overall score with one weak area still gets flagged, because the weak area is the one a relationship will land on.
Lonely or ready
The most useful part of the result is the honest split between wanting a specific person-shaped relationship and wanting company. Loneliness-driven dating is not wrong, but it attracts people who need to be needed and it burns matches on relief rather than fit. If your answers lean that way, the result says so plainly and the suggested moves target the loneliness first, not the apps.
What you get at the end
A verdict, Ready to Build, Nearly There, Warming Up, or Not Yet, with a score out of 100, bars for all three areas, and specific guidance for wherever each bar landed. You also get what is already working, what is holding you back, three concrete moves, and the apps that suit your current level of readiness, with an honest nudge to wait if that is the right answer. Nothing is sent anywhere; the quiz runs in your browser.