Seven Deadly Sins Test: Find Your Leading Vice, Its Counter-Virtue and the Real Trait Behind It

There are 35 original statements, five for each of the seven vices, mixed across two short parts so you do not answer a block of pride questions and then a block of envy questions. Each statement is rated from 0 (strongly disagree) to 4 (strongly agree). The engine totals the five statements for each vice, so each one can score from 0 to 20, and shows all seven as bars. The tallest bar is your leading vice and the result you read; if two tie, or if you endorsed nothing, or if every bar came out level, the page says so instead of inventing a winner.

The statements describe everyday tendencies, not sins in any religious sense: wanting the next thing, snapping at slow drivers, scrolling other people's lives, putting off a ten-minute task for a week. Lust is framed throughout as craving attention, novelty and pleasure, with no sexual content anywhere in the test. There is no overall "sinfulness" score and no pass mark, because the point is the pattern, not a verdict. A high bar means you recognized yourself in those five statements more than in the others; a flat profile means none of the seven stands out, which is a perfectly good result.

The list is old. Early Christian monks cataloged the thoughts that pulled them off course, and Pope Gregory I settled the familiar seven, pride, greed, lust, envy, gluttony, wrath and sloth, in the sixth century. Thomas Aquinas later paired each with a counter-virtue. You do not need any of that theology to take this quiz; the list survives because it is a surprisingly good catalog of the ordinary ways people get in their own way, and that is how the quiz treats it.

Psychology has gone back to the list more than once. Veselka, Giammarco and Vernon built a Vices and Virtues Scale in 2014 and found that the seven sins correlated with the Dark Triad traits of narcissism, Machiavellianism and psychopathy. Each vice also sits near a construct with its own research base: hubristic pride near narcissism, greed near materialism, envy near upward social comparison, gluttony and sloth near low self-control, wrath near trait anger. This quiz uses the vices as a friendly doorway into those constructs, and it points you to the deeper test for whichever one leads.

The medieval remedy for each vice is more practical than it sounds. Humility, the answer to pride, is not thinking less of yourself but being able to say "I was wrong" and "I need help" without it costing you. Charity, the answer to greed, is giving time or money without keeping score. Chastity, the answer to lust, means in this non-religious frame simple restraint and self-possession: being able to want attention, novelty or pleasure without being run by the wanting. Kindness, the answer to envy, is the practice of being glad for someone before you have finished comparing.

Temperance, the answer to gluttony, is stopping at enough, which is a skill rather than a moral quality and can be trained. Patience, the answer to wrath, is the pause between the trigger and the reaction, which is exactly what anger research says to work on. Diligence, the answer to sloth, is the small, scheduled start rather than a surge of willpower. Your result names the counter-virtue for your leading vice and a concrete first step; the Good Person quiz at Am I a Good Person? Quiz and the Moral Foundations Test at Moral Foundations Test look at your broader moral self-image and values if you want to go further.

Treat it as information, not identity. Everyone has a leading vice, the bars are relative, and a tall bar in a light-hearted quiz does not make you a proud, greedy or lazy person; it means those five statements fit a little better than the rest right now. The useful move is to take the deeper test the result points to, since that is where the real measurement lives: the Narcissism Test at Narcissism Test for pride, the Envy Test at Envy Test: Benign vs Malicious Envy for envy, the Anger Issues Test at Anger Issues Test for wrath, and the Self-Control Test at Self-Control Test for gluttony and sloth.

If a vice is costing you something real, a relationship, your health, your work, that is worth more than a quiz. A therapist can help with anger that keeps spilling over, with eating or drinking that will not stop at enough, with a comparison habit that has turned into low mood, or with a pattern of putting things off that has become a problem. None of those are sins; all of them are workable.