What Is Your Deadly Sin?
Sixteen unremarkable situations are enough to give away which of the seven has you by the sleeve.
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About this test
The list of seven deadly sins didn't arrive fully formed. In the fourth century, the monk Evagrius Ponticus, living in the Egyptian desert, catalogued eight "thoughts" that besiege anyone trying to concentrate: gluttony, lust, avarice, sadness, anger, acedia, vainglory and pride. John Cassian carried them west; at the end of the sixth century Gregory the Great reorganised them into seven, folded vainglory into pride, added envy, and made pride the root the rest grow from. Acedia later became sloth.
Which is to say: this began as a tool for paying attention, not a report card. Evagrius's eight thoughts described what pulls a mind off its task — a strikingly current subject. That's the spirit this test borrows them in: not to convict you, but to name the slope you take when you aren't thinking about it.
Sixteen very ordinary situations, seven leanings, one winner. The seventh is treated here as desire — your relationship with attention and intensity — with no explicit content at all.
How it works
Each answer gives a point to one of the seven leanings. Whichever collects the most becomes your result, with the full breakdown shown underneath. Two near-identical scores aren't a bug: most people run two sins at once, one in public and one at home.
This test is provided for entertainment purposes only. It is not a diagnosis or professional advice.