Energy Elevation · how it works

How it's scored

Two passes, about two minutes, and a score from 0 to 100 at each of six altitudes. Here's what happens to your answers.

Part 1: 24 moments at work

You see four moments for each altitude, one card at a time, and swipe each one: right if it energizes you, left if it drains you, up if neither. Buttons and arrow keys work too. You can mark everything as energizing, or nothing. That freedom matters: it puts everyone on the same scale, so your Finishing can be compared with someone else's. Each altitude's four answers set its level.

Part 2: up to eight head-to-heads

Only between altitudes you rated the same in Part 1, because that's the only place the order is still undecided. The energizing tier goes first, so your peak is always settled. A head-to-head can move an altitude by at most 7.5 points. It can break a tie, but it can't turn something that drains you into something that energizes you.

Why a curve, not a type

Most work-style tools sort you into boxes. Two people with the same top two can still be very different: how strong the peaks are, how sharp, and where the dips fall. A curve keeps all of that. It doesn't have to be smooth, either. Plenty of people are high at one altitude and low at the one right next to it.

Measuring the doing, not the outcome

Every moment describes the work itself, not a result everyone wants. "Getting it shipped" gets a yes from almost everyone, so it measures nothing. Aspirational answers are the other trap: being helpful is a virtue, so the Supporting moments describe the actual labor of helping, like fielding questions all day from people who are stuck.

Your peaks, valleys and profile

Your top two altitudes give you one of 15 profiles. Your bottom two are where your energy drains, and the profile whose peaks sit exactly there is the person you work best with.

Teams

A team page counts how many people score 60 or more at each altitude. Healthy teams tend to be wider at the ground and narrower up top, with nobody missing at any altitude. That's a working heuristic, not a proven law.

What we keep

Your answers, your scores and your email, so we can send your result and build anonymous norms. Your email is used only to send your result. Teammates see your first name and curve, never your answers or email. We also count how far each visit gets, using a random id kept in your browser (no cookie, nothing about who you are), so we can see where people stop. If your browser asks not to be tracked, it sends nothing. Percentiles will appear once enough people have taken it to make them honest.

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