A BDSM test — a kink test — is a way to put words to preferences most people never get asked about directly. Not a diagnosis and not an identity, but a starting point for a conversation with yourself and with a partner. It is free and anonymous, with no sign-up: 100 questions, 25 roles at the end and a full breakdown of each.
Answer about what appeals to you, not about what you have already done. There are no wrong answers.
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Dominance is the pull toward deciding and setting the frame. Surrender is the pleasure of handing that frame to someone you trust. They are measured separately on purpose: a person who scores high on both is not contradictory, they are a switch, and a category-ranking test would have to pick one and throw the other away.
Intensity is appetite for strong sensation. Ritual is how much rules, protocol and lasting structure matter to you. Play covers personas and scenarios. Openness covers novelty, being watched, and non-standard arrangements.
Each archetype score is the share of its own questions you agreed with, so 70% on Rigger means you leaned toward most of what riggers report, not that you are 70% of a rigger. Scores are not a ranking of how kinky you are and they do not add up to 100.
Questions removed by the filters drop out of the calculation entirely rather than counting as a no. That is why the short version and the filters do not depress your numbers — they just compute them from a smaller sample.
Expect the result to move. It shifts with different partners, in different life phases, and after any experience that reframes something. Take it again in a year and compare.
Everything measured here describes activity between adults who agreed to it in advance, in specific terms, with a safeword and the ability to stop at any moment. Without that, none of these words apply — what is left is abuse, and a test result is not a permission slip.
If you recognise your own relationship in the pressure rather than in the play, the abusive relationship test is the more useful page.
The useful move is to compare, not to persuade. Copy the partner link, have them take the test, and look at the two profiles on one chart: what matters is the overlap and the two or three axes where you diverge most.
A gap is information, not a verdict. Plenty of long relationships run on partial overlap plus a clear agreement about what stays off the table.
The most common way people ask for this test is "am I a Dominant or a submissive". The phrasing assumes a fork in the road; in practice these are two separate scales. Dominance is how much you need to decide. Surrender is how good it feels to hand the deciding to someone else. Neither cancels the other.
Someone high on both is a switch, and that is the most common combination classic tests cannot show: they have to pick one label from a pair and discard the other. Low on both is also a normal result — it says the power theme simply does not grab you, and "vanilla" is on the list for exactly that.
If what you were looking for is a dominance test, or a dominance and submission test, this is it — there are simply six scales here instead of one. A standalone dominance test hands you a single number and stops; here the same question is broken into dominance, surrender, ritual and play, because "I like deciding" and "I like being decided for" are built differently in different people.
It is also worth separating "Dominant" from "top". A top is the one doing things with their hands: tying, striking, running the scene physically. A Dominant is the one deciding. Often the same person is both, but service tops exist who do the doing while still following, as do Dominants who never lift a finger.
BDSM is an acronym stacked from three pairs: bondage and discipline, dominance and submission, sadism and masochism. This test covers all three plus what sits next to them: role scenarios, pet play, age play, primal, verbal practices, watching and being watched, and the shape of the relationship itself — monogamy versus negotiated openness.
Questions are first-person statements and ask what appeals to you, not what you have already done. That distinction matters: experience and interest are different things, and a test built on experience would hand every newcomer a zero regardless of their real profile.
On the intro screen you can remove the whole block about leading or the whole block about following if that side is definitively not yours. Removed questions are not counted as a no — they drop out of the calculation entirely.
There is no separate "couples" version here, for a simple reason: what is worth comparing is two honest individual profiles, not one compromise profile for two people. The flow is: you take the test, press "Copy link for my partner", send it — they answer the same questions and see both radars on one chart at the end.
What to look at: the overlapping axes are your shared ground, and the two or three axes with the widest gap are the conversation. A gap is not a verdict — plenty of long relationships run on partial overlap plus a clear agreement about what stays off the table.
Your partner's answers travel inside the link itself; nothing is stored on a server. The flip side is that anyone holding the link can open the result, so share it deliberately.
There is usually no short answer to "who am I in BDSM" — one label is not enough for almost anyone. So this BDSM role test returns a profile rather than a tag. Below is every role it scores. The percentages do not add up to 100 and do not rank how kinky you are: each role is calculated from its own questions separately, so several can come out high at once.
Dom · top-side · the one in charge
A Dominant is the person who makes the decisions and sets the frame: what happens, at what pace, and when it stops. It is about direction and responsibility rather than roughness — reading a partner's state is part of the job. Some are dominant only in the bedroom, others hold agreements in daily life too. What separates it from simply topping is that the question is who decides, not who does what with their hands.
sub · bottom-side · the one who follows
A submissive is someone who breathes easier when another person holds the frame. Handing control to someone trusted is not a loss but a release: inside another's rules there is more calm than when every call is yours. "Trusted" is the operative word — without it the mechanism never starts, and submission turns into pressure.
switch · both sides
A switch is someone for whom both sides are real: they can lead and they can follow, and which one comes forward depends on the partner and the mood. This is not indecision or "still figuring it out" — switching is easy precisely because adaptability is high. Classic tests lose switches because they must pick one label from a pair; here dominance and surrender are measured separately and can both be high.
Master · Mistress · Owner of a slave · total power exchange
A Master or Mistress is dominance formalised into a structure that holds outside the bedroom. Titles, protocol, duties and tokens of belonging are load-bearing here, not decoration. The dynamic asks for long relationships and very detailed agreements: the more authority is handed over, the more granular the conversation about its limits has to be.
slave · consensual slavery · service
A slave is a role where belonging to one person is felt as part of the self rather than an evening's scenario. Daily duties and rituals give footing instead of weighing down. It is the role that asks the most trust and is the most exposed to a bad partner, which is why an agreed way out of the dynamic matters here more than anywhere.
sadist · sadism · impact play top
A sadist here is someone aroused not by suffering but by the reaction: the inhale, the shiver, the moment at the edge. Consensually, this is closer to very attentive care than to cruelty — you have to read the other person continuously and stop in time. Without a safeword and a conversation afterwards the practice does not work, and without them it is not sadism but abuse.
masochist · masochism · pain play bottom
A masochist is someone for whom strong sensation works as release: the thinking quiets and only the body is left. Marks and echoes the next day are more pleasant than not. It matters to tell this apart from self-punishment: the healthy version leaves a person resourced rather than hollowed out, and after a scene what is needed is not only a partner but recovery time.
rigger · shibari · kinbaku · bondage top · the one who ties
A rigger is the person doing the tying: rope, cuffs, straps, and with them both the aesthetics and the mechanics of restricting movement. There is real craft involved — knots, pressure points, nerve and circulation safety are studied separately from the practice itself. A partner in a rigger's hands is literally defenceless, so technique counts for as much as appetite.
rope bunny · bondage bottom · rope model
A rope bunny is the person being tied. When movement is off the table all that is left is trust, and for this archetype that state is pleasant rather than alarming: the pressure of rope works like an embrace that never tires. Responsibility is shared — checking hands for numbness and saying so out loud is the bottom's job.
brat · bratty sub · submission through resistance
A brat wants to be controlled but expresses it inside out: teasing, arguing, testing the edges. Structurally it is the same surrender served through resistance, and it only works with someone the stubbornness energises rather than exhausts. Worth agreeing separately on how a played "no" differs from a real one.
brat tamer · the one who wins the standoff
A brat tamer is a dominant who is not interested in a partner who folds immediately: the flavour appears when control has to be earned. It takes patience and stubbornness not to drop the role halfway. The main risk is mistaking played resistance for a genuine refusal, which is why the safeword is agreed beforehand, not mid-scene.
degrader · verbal dominance · dirty talk top
A degrader works through words: crudeness, put-downs, talk from a position of power — all pre-negotiated. A list of what is fair game and what actually wounds matters more here than anywhere: it differs per person and is almost never obvious from outside. The change of register afterwards is mandatory too — praise is what brings a partner back.
degradee · verbal bottom
A degradee is someone for whom, inside an agreed scene, crudeness works in reverse: it arouses instead of hurting. Often it is a way to put down, for a while, the duty of being worthy and correct. Limits need naming in advance and very specifically — otherwise a real sore spot is easy to hit, and the difference between arousing and wounding becomes clear too late.
Owner · pet play top · handler · training
An Owner dominates through shaping rather than commanding: reinforcing habits, encouraging, rewarding obedience. The dynamic is softer than classic dominance and runs on attachment rather than fear. The collar marks the owner's responsibility as much as the pet's belonging.
pet · pet play · kitten · puppy · animal role play
A pet submits through play rather than command. In an animal persona the adult head switches off more easily: responsibility lifts and what remains is attachment and simple signals. Ears, a tail, a collar are props that bring the state on fast; at its core this is about emotional closeness more than power.
Daddy · Mommy · caregiver · DDLG · CGL
A caregiver leads through care: routine, rules, praise, comfort. Next to them a partner is allowed to not cope, and that is the point of the dynamic. Of all the roles it sits closest to a parental figure, so it deserves more watching than the rest: the line between support and codependency is thinner here.
little · age play bottom · DDLG little
A little is an adult's headspace, not an age: a place where you do not have to decide, earn or hold it together, where you are looked after and praised for small things. It restores faster than a holiday but needs a partner who can hold the caregiver role without irritation. Both sides are always adults.
primal hunter · predator · the chase
A primal hunter runs on instinct rather than protocol: the chase, the wrestle, the pin, the bite. There are no titles and no rules here, only appetite and physicality. Precisely because there is no script, the safeword matters more in primal play: stopping at speed is objectively harder than in a measured scene.
primal prey · the one who runs · chase bottom
Primal prey takes pleasure not from losing but from the moment itself: the break for it, the chase, the capture. Fighting back and losing is part of the script, not a failure of it. Agreeing in advance on how played resistance differs from the real thing is therefore not a formality but a safety condition.
voyeur · voyeurism · watching
A voyeur is aroused by watching: a partner from across the room, others by agreement, their own reflection. The distance is not coldness but a mode of participation. The one hard condition is consent from everyone in frame — without it this stops being a practice and becomes a violation of other people's boundaries and of the law.
exhibitionist · exhibitionism · being watched
An exhibitionist likes being seen: by a partner, in a mirror, on camera, sometimes with a risk of being noticed. Someone else's attention works as an amplifier. The line between bold and unlawful is thin and rests entirely on the person: a bystander never gave consent.
experimentalist · open to anything · trying new things
An experimentalist is moved by novelty: repeating one script is dull and the unfamiliar pulls on its own. It usually shows up as a high score across many scales at once. The single risk is chasing the new faster than limits get negotiated, which is why writing down the list of nos beforehand pays off most for this profile.
vanilla · no roles · plain intimacy
Vanilla means intimacy without scripts, props or a distribution of power. This is not inexperience or a lack of imagination but a preference in its own right, and a high score here is as much a result as any other. Power dynamics exist in every relationship anyway — vanilla people simply do not use these words for them.
monogamist · monogamy · exclusivity
A monogamist values exclusivity: depth with one person beats breadth of choice. Open arrangements are not for them, and that is worth saying on the first date rather than six months in. Compatibility on this single point predicts how long a relationship lasts better than matching tastes in scenarios do.
non-monogamist · polyamory · open relationship · ethical non-monogamy
A non-monogamist allows several connections at once, provided everything is transparent and negotiated. Jealousy is something to work through, not an argument for a ban. Without detailed rules and regular conversations the structure falls apart faster than a monogamous one, so "we're just open" with no specifics usually means the specifics have not been discussed yet.
The original ranks you against a list of labels: you get a sorted column of percentages in which you cannot be high on both Dominant and submissive, even though that combination is common in real life. Here six independent axes are calculated first and the roles are derived from them, so a switch profile survives instead of being flattened.
The second difference is practical: everything is calculated in your browser. No sign-up, no answers sent to a server, and the result link carries nothing but your encoded answers. The test exists in English and Russian, and both versions score against the same weight matrix.
Free, and no account. No email, no phone number, and answers are never sent to a server — the whole calculation happens in your browser.
The full version is 100 questions, roughly 20 minutes. There is a short version of 35 questions, about 6 minutes, which scores the same axes from a smaller sample.
Yes. We ask for no name, no age, no orientation — only a confirmation that you are 18 or older. Nothing leaves your device and nothing is kept between sessions.
A switch is someone for whom both sides are real: they can lead and they can submit, and which one comes forward depends on the partner and the mood. This test shows switches directly, because dominance and surrender are measured separately and can both be high.
A role's percentage is the share of its own questions you agreed with. 70% on Rigger means you leaned toward most of what riggers report, not that you are 70% of a rigger. The percentages do not sum to 100.
It is a self-assessment, not a clinical instrument. It reflects how you describe yourself today, and the result will move — with different partners, in different life phases and after new experience. Take it again in a year and compare.
Yes, through the partner link. Each of you answers separately, and at the end both profiles are drawn on one radar with the average gap across roles.
18. The test asks about the sexual preferences of adults and sits behind an age confirmation.
This test is entertainment and self-reflection, not a clinical instrument, and it does not replace a conversation with a professional.
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