2 lines · 60 statements · the 4 conditions a clinician checks

Adult ADHD test An attention profile instead of yes or no

ADHD stands for attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder. In plain words it is a lifelong difference in self-regulation: attention gets hijacked, tasks will not start, time is not felt, impulse outruns thought. In adults it looks less like running around and more like procrastination, chaos in tasks, forgotten arrangements and the tiredness of ordinary things costing more than they cost other people. You answer 60 statements about the past six months — and get a profile across the two symptom lines (inattention and hyperactivity-impulsivity), 16 facets and an honest checklist of the four conditions a clinician checks. This test does not diagnose and does not rule anything out: it shows what exactly is pronounced in you, what the picture is missing and what else could explain it. 60 questions, 9–10 minutes; taking the test is free, no sign-up.

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  • Attention and detail
  • Organisation and time
  • Impulse and motion
  • Emotion and switching
  • Lifelong pattern and cost
  • 60statements, 9–10 minutes
  • 2symptom lines
  • 16facets inside five groups
  • 4conditions a clinician checks

Demo

Four statements out of sixty

The full test shows six statements per screen and five frequency steps — from «never» to «almost always». Answer about the past six months and about how it actually is.

These four come from the attention line. There are no right answers.

Attention and organisation

FocusedScattered

Answer about the past six months and about how it is, not how it should be.

0 of 4 answered
I read or listen — and minutes later catch myself thinking about something else
neveralmost always

Four items measure almost nothing — that is why the band is this wide. In the full test it is narrowed by 60 statements, 16 facets and reversed items. There are no percentiles here: this test has no normative sample, and we will not invent one.

The honest frame

This test does not diagnose — and does not rule anything out

«Everyone has that sometimes» and «I definitely have ADHD» are two equally useless extremes. The useful third thing is this: what exactly is pronounced in you, how far back it goes, how many areas of life it shows in and what it costs you.

Short screeners answer yes or no from six questions, and that is that. We score the two symptom lines separately, show 16 facets, and check four conditions on their own — without which the signs mean nothing: is this lifelong, is it everywhere, what does it cost, and is something else explaining it. The thresholds for those conditions are ours, not clinical cut-offs, and we say so right where we show the result.

2 lines

instead of «screen positive». Inattention and hyperactivity-impulsivity are scored separately: one can be high, both, or neither — and those are three different conversations.

16 of 60

items are reversed, one in every facet. They break the automatic «yes, that is me» and stop the test from agreeing with you simply because you came looking for confirmation.

Zero diagnoses

We do not say you have ADHD, and we do not say you do not. A clinician determines that in person, across a whole life history — the test shows what your picture contains and what it is missing.

What the test sees

Two lines, sixteen facets

How adult ADHD actually shows up is visible right here: twelve facets describe the signs — six on the attention-and-organisation line, six on the impulse-and-emotion line. Four more facets are not signs but conditions: is this lifelong, is it across areas of life, what does it cost and what else might explain it. Without them the signs mean nothing.

Line: inattention

Attention and detail

How fast attention is hijacked by a sound, a thought or a notification; what becomes of the last ten per cent of a task; how much drops out of everyday memory — keys, arrangements, «why did I come in here».

Facets inside

  • sustaining attention
  • detail and finishing
  • everyday forgetfulness

What matters here. Adult ADHD signs start exactly here, and this is not «weak attention»: the attention is there, it is poorly steered. Hence careless mistakes in places where you knew perfectly well what to do.

Line: inattention

Organisation and time

The sense of time: lateness, underestimated durations, «two hours passed and it felt like twenty minutes». Order in tasks: the multi-step job, priorities, the chaos around you. And ignition: I know, I want to — and still cannot begin.

Facets inside

  • sense of time
  • order in tasks
  • getting started

What matters here. What gets called procrastination usually lives here. A deadline works not because you drag things out but because the engine will not turn over any earlier — and those are different things.

Line: hyperactivity-impulsivity

Impulse and motion

The inner motor: fidgeting, the impossibility of just sitting, an evening of «doing nothing» harder than a working day. Impulsivity: the word is out, the purchase is made, the yes is given — and the weighing comes after. And what happens with boredom and waiting.

Facets inside

  • inner motor
  • impulsivity
  • waiting and boredom

What matters here. In adults hyperactivity almost always moves inward: from outside the person sits still while the motor runs. So «but I am not bouncing off the walls» is not an argument against this line.

Line: hyperactivity-impulsivity

Emotion and switching

From calm to a strong emotion in a fraction of a second, with the «was that worth it» arriving afterwards. A remark or a refusal derails the whole day. And hyperfocus: you sink into the interesting so deep that food, sleep and arrangements disappear.

Facets inside

  • speed of emotion
  • sensitivity to criticism
  • hyperfocus and switching

What matters here. What looks from outside like emotional instability is measured here as the speed of reaction: emotional dysregulation was long treated as a complication, and today it is read as part of the same self-regulation picture. Hyperfocus is not a bonus and not a superpower: it is the same setting that also produces the wrecked plans.

Not a line — the conditions

Lifelong pattern and cost

Four facets scored apart from the signs: does the picture reach back to school years, is it visible across areas of life, what does it cost — in money, deadlines, energy, self-regard — and is there another explanation for it.

Facets inside

  • present since childhood
  • across all areas
  • cost in life
  • other explanations

What matters here. These four are exactly what a clinician checks in an adult before even thinking about a diagnosis. We bring your answers onto one scale and honestly show how each of them looks — rather than passing a match off as a diagnosis.

Scoring

How the result is calculated

  1. Step 1

    60 statements, five frequency steps

    From «never» to «almost always»: twelve symptom facets of four items each and four condition facets of three. What counts is how often this happens — there are no right answers.

  2. Step 2

    Some items are reversed

    16 of 60 are phrased «the other way round» and flipped when scored — one in every facet, conditions included. They break automatic answers and protect the result from drifting towards whatever the person came for.

  3. Step 3

    The two lines are scored apart

    Inattention and hyperactivity-impulsivity are different groups of signs, not two ends of one ruler: both can be high. That is exactly why the result is a map, not a single score.

  4. Step 4

    The four conditions are scored apart from the signs

    Enough signs · lifelong · across areas of life · with a real cost. Four matches is not a diagnosis and zero matches is not its absence: these are your answers brought onto one scale, not clinical cut-offs.

Why there are no percentiles and no «95% accuracy» here

This test has no normative sample and no sensitivity study, so «more attentive than 72% of people» and any claimed accuracy would be inventions. The scales show how often each sign appears in YOUR answers — enough to see the shape of the profile and to know what to discuss with a clinician.

Sustaining attention84 · strongly present
0 — not present100 — strongly present

How it goes

How the test goes

Sixty statements about yourself is a conversation with yourself, and we built it so it never turns into an exam: you can stop at any moment and come back.

  • 01

    One flow, no «Next»

    Every statement in a single flow: after you answer, the page glides to the next unanswered one by itself. Five frequency steps, from «never» to «almost always».

  • 02

    Progress always in sight

    The «N of 60 answered» counter and the progress bar stay pinned to the top; unanswered items light up if you try to submit too early.

  • 03

    Stop and come back

    A draft saves itself: close the tab and you will return to the same spot. Before the start we ask one thing only — what your days are filled with, because the same signs cost different amounts in different environments.

The result

What you will see after the test

On the right is a sample result page with the real block structure. The numbers are illustrative — yours will be your own.

Free, right after the test

  • Your point on the map of two lines — inattention and hyperactivity-impulsivity
  • The checklist of four conditions: what your answers meet and what they do not
  • The «something else may explain this» flag — you always see it, payment or not
  • The loudest facet of each line, and what genuinely works for you

Full analysis — 1290 ₽

  • What your pair of lines means: which inattention and which impulse sound in you
  • How it works in your actual days — given what your life is filled with right now
  • What else produces the same picture: sleep, anxiety, depression, burnout, thyroid, iron and B12 — and how they differ from a lifelong pattern
  • What is genuinely fine about you — from the reversed items, honestly and specifically
  • What a real in-person evaluation looks like, what to bring and what to expect
  • What helps regardless of any diagnosis — and ready-made words for work and for yourself
  • A PDF with your profile and answers — something to show a clinician instead of recalling from memory

Not a subscription and not a course: one payment — a finished reading that stays yours for good. Mir, Visa, Mastercard.

Why this works

What the test rests on

ADHD is one of the most studied topics in developmental psychiatry, and its measurement frame has long settled: two groups of signs, a condition of onset, a condition of spread and a condition of cost. We take that frame and speak honestly about its limits.

  • Two lines

    The modern diagnostic frame distinguishes two groups of signs — inattention and hyperactivity-impulsivity. Their combination is what gets called a presentation: predominantly inattentive, hyperactive-impulsive or combined.

  • Before 12

    In an adult the signs must trace back to childhood, several of them before the age of twelve. That is exactly why the test has separate items about school years rather than only about the past six months.

  • 2 settings

    The signs have to be visible in at least two areas of life. Trouble that lives only at one job usually says something about the job rather than the person — and the test can tell those apart.

  • Interview

    An adult evaluation is a conversation across a whole life history, sometimes with a structured interview such as DIVA-5. Our test neither replaces nor imitates it: it prepares the material for it — what is pronounced, since when, where exactly and what it costs.

  • Self-regulation

    The modern view reads the picture more broadly than a symptom list: as a disorder of executive function and self-regulation, where emotional impulsiveness is part of the picture rather than a complication. Hence our facets of time, ignition and speed of emotion.

  • Later in women

    In women the picture is more often inattentive and internal, masked by diligence and looking from outside like anxiety or fatigue. That is why it gets found later — and why the test measures facets rather than how visible you are from outside.

  • 60 items

    Every wording is written by us. The frame of the construct is free; the specific items of other inventories are not. We also host the short free WHO screener: these are different instruments for different jobs.

  • What the test measures

    How often the signs of the two lines appear in your answers about the past six months — and how the four conditions look by those same answers.

  • What it does not measure

    A diagnosis. No questionnaire can make one or rule one out: a clinician does that in person, across a whole life history and in conversation. There is no laboratory test «for ADHD» either.

  • Adults only

    The test is written for an adult answering about themselves. Children and teenagers are assessed differently — by a specialist, with input from parents and school; this result cannot be transferred to them.

Honest limitations. This is an educational tool, not diagnostics and not counselling. The test has no normative sample — there will be no percentiles, no sensitivity and no «±N accuracy», and the thresholds for the four conditions were chosen by us rather than taken from clinical cut-offs. Self-report systematically diverges from an in-person assessment in both directions: it confirms what a person came for and misses what a person has grown used to. The reading prescribes no treatment and discusses no medication. If things are hard right now, you need a live specialist, not a test.

Sounds familiar?

If this rings a bell

  • Procrastination that no to-do list fixes

    «I cannot make myself work» — you know what to do, you want to do it, and still do not start until the deadline is on fire. The usual advice on beating procrastination misses it: this is not about motivation, ignition has mechanics, and they are measurable.

  • The dopamine slump and the endless «later»

    After something interesting everything else turns bland, and off you go looking for the next spark. People call it a dopamine slump or a dopamine detox, and the neighbouring feeling that real life starts later is the same thing. There is a far more boring and far more useful explanation for it than a trending term.

  • Brain fog

    Thoughts scatter, words go missing, by evening there is nothing left. Trouble with concentration and general absent-mindedness come from ADHD, and from sleep loss, and from the thyroid, and from low iron — the test separates those versions instead of merging them.

  • Hyperfocus and things abandoned halfway

    A night on an interesting project — and three courses that will never be finished. It is one and the same setting, and the reading shows how it is wired.

  • «You are just lazy»

    You have heard it for years — and most likely say it to yourself. A facet profile gives you the language to explain what is happening, to yourself and to others, without excuses and without diagnoses.

  • You already have a diagnosis — or were refused one

    The test neither confirms nor overturns a clinician's decision. It shows the shape of the profile: what is pronounced, what is fine and what helps regardless of what any of it is called. The word «neurodivergence» settles nothing here — the facets and the four conditions do.

Method

The test in detail

What the test measures, how the two lines and 16 facets are built, what the four conditions are and why their thresholds are ours, what you get in the analysis and what we do not promise — for those who want the full picture first.

  • The diagnostic frame distinguishes two groups of ADHD signs, and we score them separately. Inattention and organisation: sustaining attention, detail and finishing, everyday forgetfulness, the sense of time, order in tasks and getting started. Hyperactivity and impulsivity: the inner motor, impulsivity, waiting and boredom, the speed of emotion, sensitivity to criticism and hyperfocus. The lines are independent: one can be high, both, or neither — and those are three different conversations.

    Four more facets are not signs but conditions, without which the signs mean nothing: does the picture reach back to school years, is it visible across areas of life, what does it cost and is there another explanation for it. Sixty statements in total with five frequency steps, of which 16 are reversed — one in every facet. Reversed items break automatic answers and stop the test from agreeing with a person simply because they came looking for confirmation.

    • Attention-line signs: cannot focus, lose the thread, careless mistakes, «why did I come in here», lost keys and forgotten arrangements, lateness, chaos in tasks, the impossibility of starting.
    • Impulse-line signs: cannot sit still, inner restlessness, interrupting, speaking and buying without thinking, no tolerance for waiting or boredom, the flash before the thought, criticism derailing the day, hyperfocus instead of switching.
    • Conditions: lifelong · across areas of life · with a real cost · with no other explanation. Separately — the «something else may explain this» flag: sleep debt, a recent worsening, dependence on the period of life.

  • The honest answer: not from a questionnaire, and no online test settles it. But the question has a workable form. In an adult a clinician checks four things: are there enough signs; do they reach back to childhood (several before the age of twelve); are they visible in at least two areas of life; and do they cost the person something real — money, deadlines, energy, self-regard. We bring your answers onto one scale and show how each of the four looks for you specifically.

    The thresholds we judge a match by are ours, not clinical cut-offs, and we say so right on the result page. Four matches do not equal a diagnosis; zero matches do not equal its absence. The point of the checklist is different and more useful: you come to a clinician not with «what if I have ADHD» but with a concrete picture — what is pronounced, since when, where exactly and what it costs.

  • Presentations are not different illnesses but different combinations of the two lines. Predominantly inattentive: the attention line is high while the impulsive one is calm — what people call ADHD without hyperactivity, and the one most often missed in adults and especially in women. Predominantly hyperactive-impulsive: the mirror image. Combined: both lines high. And a fourth area of the map — when the signs do not add up into a picture, which is also a result.

    On our map these are areas your point lands in, not forms of a diagnosis: the clinical presentation is decided by a clinician, not a test. What the point gives you that a label cannot is distance: how far you are from the border between areas. If your point sits close to a border, the reading says exactly that instead of stretching the most striking name over you.

    • Your point on the map of two lines and the area it landed in — with an honest note if it sits near a border.
    • All 16 facets with zones: not present, noticeable, strongly present.
    • The checklist of four conditions: what your answers meet, what they do not and what a miss means.
    • The «something else may explain this» flag — free and always: sleep debt, anxiety, depression, burnout, thyroid trouble, low iron or B12 produce exactly the same picture.
    • A reading of which inattention and which impulse sound in you — given what your days are filled with right now.
    • What is genuinely fine about you — from the reversed items, and what you can build on it.
    • What a real in-person evaluation looks like, what to bring and what to expect. Plus a PDF with your profile and answers, so nothing has to be recalled from memory.

  • It does not diagnose — and it does not rule anything out. Adult ADHD is determined by a clinician in person, across a whole life history and in conversation; there is no laboratory test «for ADHD», and no questionnaire replaces that. If you already have a diagnosis, or were refused one, the reading does not review a specialist's decision: it describes the profile and what helps regardless of the name.

    It prescribes no treatment and discusses no medication — no classes, no names, no «ask your doctor about». It does not compare you with other people: the test has no normative sample, so there are no percentiles, no sensitivity and no «±N accuracy» here. And it is not for children: children and teenagers are assessed differently — by a specialist, with input from parents and school.

Questions

Frequently asked questions

What people ask most: how to tell whether you have ADHD, how it differs from laziness and burnout, what to do with the result, and what exactly you would pay for. Straight answers — no fine print.

  • Not from a questionnaire: a clinician does that in person. But the question can be put into a workable form. In an adult four things are looked at: are there enough signs, do they reach back to childhood, are they visible in at least two areas of life, and do they cost you something real. The test shows how each of the four looks by your answers, and which facets sound louder than the rest. That is not a yes/no answer but a picture worth taking to a specialist.

  • The separating principle is simple: ADHD is lifelong and shows across areas of life, while burnout, anxiety, depression and sleep loss start at some point and often cluster around one part of life. That is why the test has separate items about school years, about different areas and about whether it was the same during calm stretches. And that is why the reading has a required section on what else produces the same picture — thyroid, iron and B12 included. We do not use laziness as an explanation: it explains nothing and helps nobody.

  • They are two different instruments for different jobs, and we host both. The free ASRS screen is six WHO questions and a «screen positive or negative» answer: one minute to see whether there is a reason to look further. This test is 60 items of our own, two symptom lines, 16 facets, four conditions and an AI reading from your numbers: what exactly is pronounced, what the picture is missing, what else explains it and what to do next. If in doubt — start with the free screen.

  • Presentations are combinations of the two lines. Predominantly inattentive (the one called ADHD without hyperactivity): attention and organisation are pronounced while the motor is calm — the presentation most often missed in adults. Predominantly hyperactive-impulsive: the other way round. Combined: both lines high. For us these are areas on a map, not diagnoses: what the picture is called is decided by a clinician. What you do see is how far your point is from the border between areas.

  • A psychiatrist handles the diagnosis (ICD-10 puts it under F90). The assessment is a detailed conversation about how your life works now and how it worked at school, sometimes with a structured interview and with input from people close to you. There is no laboratory test «for ADHD»; tests are ordered to rule out other causes of inattention. It helps to bring what is hard to recall on the spot: examples of what it costs you, school-era memories and what people close to you notice. The PDF report of this test exists for exactly that.

  • It is a lifelong difference rather than an infection, so the accurate phrasing is not «cure» but «make it cost less» — and that works. Decisions about therapy belong to a clinician, and we neither discuss nor name medication in the test or in the reading. Plenty helps regardless of any diagnosis and is available immediately: make time visible, cut the first step down to a size you can actually start from, move memory outside your head, fix sleep, and remove from your environment whatever attention is spent resisting. That is what the recommendations section is made of.

  • Yes, and it is well described. In women the picture is more often inattentive and internal: not a motor pointing outward but thoughts scattering, diligent masking, and an outward impression of anxiety or fatigue. Hence late findings, years of self-blame and low self-esteem. We do not build a separate «women's test» — instead we measure facets rather than how visible you are from outside: inattention, sensitivity to criticism and the cost in life show in your answers regardless of how anyone sees you.

  • No, and we deliberately do not sell it for that. The test is written for an adult answering about themselves: the wording, the «past six months» frame and the questions about school years are built for looking back. Children and teenagers are assessed differently — by a specialist, with input from parents and school, on other scales. If a child is the concern, go straight to a child psychiatrist or neurologist: an adult test result cannot be transferred to them.

  • The test answers nothing of the sort and carries no legal weight: fitness is determined by a medical commission from documents issued by clinicians. If that is the question, it has to be worked through with a confirmed diagnosis and medical records in hand — we have a separate section on the Russian Schedule of Diseases and a separate service that reads such documents.

  • Free: the profile across two lines, your point on the map with its area, all 16 facets with zones, the checklist of four conditions and the «something else may explain this» flag — you always see the last one, even if you never buy the reading: we do not earn on that. For 1290 ₽ the full reading opens: what your pair of lines means, how it works in your days, what else produces the same picture, what is fine about you, what an in-person evaluation looks like and what helps regardless of a diagnosis. Plus a PDF. One payment, no subscription.

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This test is educational: it does not diagnose ADHD and does not rule it out — a clinician does that in person, across a whole life history. The reading prescribes no treatment, discusses no medication and neither overturns nor confirms a diagnosis you already have. The test is for adults; children and teenagers are assessed by a specialist using other instruments. Inattention also comes from sleep loss, anxiety, depression, low iron or B12 and thyroid problems.