Developer Reality Check

Test your actual coding knowledge versus your confidence. Discover if you suffer from Imposter Syndrome or the Dunning-Kruger Effect.

Are you a Genius or a Fraud?

Developers often struggle to assess their own skills accurately. This adaptive quiz measures the gap between your confidence and your competence.

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The Psychology of Coding

Programming is unique because it offers immediate, brutal feedback. Your code either runs or it doesn't. This binary outcome often leads to extreme fluctuations in self-esteem, known as the Dunning-Kruger Effect and Imposter Syndrome.

This tool uses a "confidence-weighted scoring" mechanism used in cognitive psychology research to measure metacognition—your ability to know what you know.

Dunning-Kruger Effect

A cognitive bias where people with low ability at a task overestimate their abilities. It is essentially "unconscious incompetence."

  • High Confidence
  • Low Accuracy
  • Often breaks production

Imposter Syndrome

The persistent inability to believe that one's success is deserved or has been legitimately achieved as a result of one's own efforts or skills.

  • Low Confidence
  • High Accuracy
  • Over-engineers solutions

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