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What level are you, really?
Twelve positions, four beginner, four intermediate, four advanced, and a band at the end on the 1 to 7 scale the booking apps use. It scores your decisions, not your opinion of yourself, which is why it runs about half a point lower than most people's profile. Take it honestly and it tells you what would move you up.
Before you start
There is no clock. Read each position, pick the shot you would actually play, not the one you think a coach wants, and you get the reasoning after every answer. Twelve questions, about six minutes.
How do the apps rate you now?
How the bands work
Booking apps ask you to rate yourself when you sign up, and nearly everybody rates themselves half a point to a point high, then spends a season losing matches to people who did the same. This test does not ask. It shows you twelve real positions and scores what you would do: a beginner position is worth one point, an intermediate two, an advanced three, for a maximum of twenty-four. Guessing lands you in the second band; the test is designed so that the bands above it have to be earned.
- Under 1.5. Starting out. The walls and the lob are still new. Play the beginner puzzles for a month.
- 1.5 to 2.5. Club beginner. You know where to stand; shot selection under pressure is the gap.
- 2.5 to 3.5. Intermediate. Lob, take the net, bandeja: the plan is there, the reading is not yet.
- 3.5 to 4.5. Strong club player. You read most positions; the exceptions and the formations are what is left.
- 4.5 and up. Advanced, on decisions. Your decisions are right; execution and fitness decide your matches now, and no quiz can measure those.
It measures decision-making, not execution. A player who knows every answer here but cannot hit a deep lob is still a beginner on court, but a player who can hit every shot and does not know these answers is the one who loses to people they should beat. Retake it in a month; the questions change every time.