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Problem Solving Quiz

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Designed for a focused look at how you approach challenges, the problem solving quiz contains 15 questions and takes about 10 minutes. Your result highlights whether analytical, collaborative, or creative approaches are most natural for you, supporting self-reflection about decisions, uncertainty, and practical obstacles.
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How the Scales are Structured

Analytical SolverAS
Measures your preference for evidence-based, structured, step-by-step reasoning when solving problems.
example score10/15
10/15Availableexample score
0 – 5Situational
6 – 10Available
11 – 15Signature
A score of 10 suggests structured analysis is a readily available approach for you, helping you organize evidence and test assumptions while staying adaptable.
Collaborative SolverCS
This scale measures your preference for involving others to gather perspectives, build shared understanding, and co-develop solutions.
example score4/15
4/15Situationalexample score
0 – 5Situational
6 – 10Available
11 – 15Signature
A score of 4 suggests you involve others selectively and often prefer to make initial progress independently before seeking collaborative input.
Creative SolverCS
Measures your tendency to reframe problems, generate alternatives, and experiment to find non-obvious solutions.
example score6/15
6/15Availableexample score
0 – 5Situational
6 – 10Available
11 – 15Signature
A score of 6 suggests creative exploration is readily available to you, and you often generate alternatives while keeping novelty within practical limits.
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DATA-BASED USER COHORTS

Who Usually Takes This Test?

Career growth seekers
41%OF USERS
People exploring strengths for interviews, promotions, or role changes use it to understand their default way of tackling challenges.
Team collaborators
34%OF USERS
Managers and teammates take it to compare approaches and communicate better when solving problems together.
Students and learners
25%OF USERS
Students and self-learners use it to spot whether they learn best through step-by-step analysis, experimentation, or discussion.
BASED ON AGGREGATED, ANONYMIZED DATA FROM TENS OF THOUSANDS OF FREUDLY USERS.
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See How You Compare

Once you complete the test, your results are compared with real-world data from people in your country.
Below is a preview of how scores are typically distributed across each scale.
Shaded area — where most people score
Dot — the average
You — your score lands on each curve after the test— your score, after the test
Analytical SolverAS
You?
Average5.5
Typical rangeTypical3.6 – 7.5
Possible0 – 15
Collaborative SolverCS
You?
Average8.3
Typical rangeTypical5.7 – 10.9
Possible0 – 15
Creative SolverCS
You?
Average5.4
Typical rangeTypical2.7 – 8.2
Possible0 – 15
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SAMPLE QUESTIONS

Example Questions From the Test

    • Use the available data to optimize for the most common routine.
    • Launch a small version and revise it according to what happens.
    • Invite people with the different routines to identify impacts and shape adjustments.
    • Keep the design simple enough for individuals to adapt on their own.
    • Whether the people affected felt that it worked well for them.
    • Whether it can be modified into a more original solution.
    • Whether the team can implement it quickly with minimal debate.
    • Whether evidence shows why it worked and under which conditions.
    • Ask everyone involved where the handoff feels most difficult.
    • Map each step and compare where delays occur across recent weeks.
    • Try a redesigned workflow immediately and see whether it helps.
    • Choose the quickest workable adjustment based on experience.
These are 3 of the 15 real questions — the rest appear in the test. No sign-up needed to start.
WHAT THE TEST MEASURES

Problem Solving Quiz - Description and methodology of the test

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People who want to understand their default way of handling uncertainty, competing priorities, or stalled plans can use this problem solving quiz as a practical profile exercise. It suits readers comparing habits across work, study, projects, or everyday decisions. As a problem solving assessment, it shows which approach is most characteristic and where two approaches may work together.

What This Assessment Explores

Questions focus on incomplete information, disagreement, failed methods, and practical constraints. They sample preferences for evidence, dialogue, reframing, experimentation, and adaptation. For readers using a problem solving skills quiz to name their habits, the result offers a profile rather than a pass-or-fail judgment.

The three profile dimensions are:

  • Analytical Solver (0-15) reflects affinity for evidence, structure, comparison, and step-by-step reasoning: Situational (0-5), Available (6-10), Signature (11-15).
  • Collaborative Solver (0-15) reflects affinity for gathering perspectives, shared understanding, and solutions developed with others: Situational (0-5), Available (6-10), Signature (11-15).
  • Creative Solver (0-15) reflects affinity for reframing, alternatives, experimentation, and unexpected connections: Situational (0-5), Available (6-10), Signature (11-15).

The highest score indicates your strongest affinity. If another score is within one point, the result represents a blended profile.

Methodology and Scientific Basis

Each item presents a practical dilemma with four response choices. Across the scenarios, the themes include changing a plan for different users, resolving disagreement, learning from failure, weighing constraints, engaging stakeholders, and testing alternatives. The selected responses are summarized into three profile scores rather than a single overall total. The questionnaire reports three profile scores, but it does not specify how each response contributes to them; interpret the scores through the scale definitions and the highest-score or blended-result rule.

The questionnaire is conceptually consistent with VIEW (Selby et al., 2004), a published framework that treats individual style as a pattern of preferences in approaching challenges rather than as a measure of general ability. Treffinger, Selby, and Isaksen (2008) also describe how style relates to learning and applying creative methods.

The resulting profile of problem-solving styles is not presented as a standardized administration or direct adaptation of either publication, and because responses are self-reported, current pressures, the imagined situation, and self-awareness can influence the pattern. Answering for your usual behavior, rather than an ideal response, gives the profile a clearer basis for reflection.

Literature:
  • Edwin C. Selby, Donald J. Treffinger, Scott G. Isaksen, and Kenneth J. Lauer (2004). Defining and Assessing Problem-Solving Style: Design and Development of a New Tool. The Journal of Creative Behavior, 38(4), 221-243. 10.1002/j.2162-6057.2004.tb01242.x
  • Donald J. Treffinger, Edwin C. Selby, and Scott G. Isaksen (2008). Understanding individual problem-solving style: A key to learning and applying creative problem solving. Learning and Individual Differences, 18(4), 390-401. 10.1016/j.lindif.2007.11.007

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