RightValues Test: what kind of right-winger are you?

The RightValues test is a political values quiz written for people on the right of the spectrum. It does not ask whether you are left or right; it starts from the right and asks what kind of right-winger you are, whether a free-market libertarian, a traditional conservative, a monarchist or something else.

RightValues was made by the GitHub user rightvaluestest as a counterpart to LeftValues, a quiz for the left that was itself built on 8values. Its first repository dates from February 2020, the current version was published in 2021, and its code was last updated in February 2022. The original site also offers Korean, Russian, Chinese and Japanese translations.

This page offers the RightValues test with the original 69 statements, the original weights and the original 26 ideologies, in English, Portuguese and Spanish. The RightValues test is free, needs no account, and shows your results as soon as you answer the last statement.

The RightValues test shows 69 statements one at a time, such as "The freer the markets, the freer the people" or "A strong government is required for a safe society." For each one you pick one of five answers: strongly agree, agree, neutral or unsure, disagree, or strongly disagree.

Every statement in the RightValues test counts on exactly one axis with a weight of 5 points. Strongly agree adds the full 5 points to that axis, agree adds 2.5, neutral adds nothing, and disagree or strongly disagree subtract 2.5 or 5. Roughly half of the statements on each axis are written for each side, so agreeing does not always push you the same way.

The Reform–Conserve axis has 9 statements and a maximum of 45 points; the other six axes have 10 statements and a maximum of 50. Your score on each axis is 100 × (maximum + total) ÷ (2 × maximum), so perfectly balanced answers give exactly 50%. Most people finish the right values test in about 10 minutes.

Each axis in the RightValues test is a pair of opposing values, and your score is the share of the first, so 65% Reform also means 35% Conserve. Reform vs. Conserve covers social and moral questions such as LGBTQ+ rights, feminism, drugs, pornography and abortion. Intervention vs. Laissez-faire asks how far the government should steer the economy, from planning and a higher minimum wage to free markets with little regulation.

Authority vs. Constitution measures how much power the state should hold, from a strong or even autocratic government to a constitution that limits it, or no state at all. Particular vs. Universal is about foreign policy: staying out of other countries' affairs and avoiding conflict, or intervening abroad and even expanding borders.

Theocracy vs. Separation asks whether religion should shape the state, with official religions and faith-based voting, or be kept apart from it. Accelerate vs. Decelerate weighs rapid technological change, including nuclear power, AI, life extension and space colonization, against a slower pace and older ways of living.

Assimilation vs. Multicultural covers immigration and national identity: one shared culture and language that newcomers adopt, or a society that blends many cultures. Together, the seven axes give the RightValues test a much finer picture of the right than a single left-right line.

Your RightValues test result shows seven bars with both percentages and a label for each axis. The labels follow the same steps on every axis: above 90%, above 75% and above 60% for the first side, 40% to 60% for the middle, and the mirror image below 40%. On Intervention vs. Laissez-faire, for example, 92% reads as Planned economy, 50% as Neutral and 20% as Free markets.

The quiz then measures how far your seven scores are from each of the 26 ideologies and names the closest. The distance is not a simple average: gaps on the Intervention, Authority and Particular axes are squared, while gaps on the other four axes are raised to the power of 1.5. Large differences on economics, state power and foreign policy therefore weigh more than equally large differences on culture, religion or technology.

Below your closest match, the other 25 ideologies are listed with a percentage, where your closest match counts as 100% and the farthest as 0%. Those numbers rank the options against each other in the RightValues test; they do not measure agreement in absolute terms.

The authors of the RightValues test group the list into five families. Liberals and libertarians form the largest one: libertarianism, individualist anarchism, agorism, anarcho-capitalism, minarchism, paleolibertarianism, geolibertarianism, neoliberalism and classical liberalism. Traditionalism covers conservatism, neoconservatism, centre-right politics, reactionary conservatism, paleoconservatism, right-wing populism, paternalistic conservatism and fiscal conservatism.

Monarchism covers absolute monarchism, constitutional monarchism and theocracy, and a small group of others holds pink capitalism, civic nationalism, progressive conservatism and technocracy. The list also includes fascism and National Socialism, so that strongly authoritarian and nationalist answers have a match; their descriptions on this site are neutral and historical.

Each ideology is a fixed point on the seven axes, set by the RightValues authors. Theocracy is the only one placed far toward Theocracy, only fascism and National Socialism lean clearly toward Assimilation, and every other ideology sits at 50% on those two axes. As a result, the RightValues quiz separates ideologies mostly on social change, economics, state power, foreign policy and technology.

12 Axes, the main test on this site, covers the whole political spectrum with twelve axes and lets you choose 36, 60 or 288 statements. The RightValues test covers only the right, with seven axes and 69 statements, and assumes you already lean that way.

12 Axes uses seven answer options and compares you with 38 ideologies from anarcho-communism to anarcho-capitalism. The RightValues test uses five options and 26 ideologies, nearly all on the right, and gives a whole axis to topics that a broad test touches only briefly, such as technological acceleration and cultural assimilation.

If you are not sure where you stand overall, take 12 Axes first. If you already know you are on the right and want to see which part of it fits you, the RightValues test is the better choice, and LeftValues offers the same kind of test for the left.

The RightValues test is a tool for reflection, not a scientific measurement. Its statements, weights and ideology positions come from a small volunteer project, and no one has tested them the way validated psychological scales are tested.

Some limits follow from the design. Each axis of the RightValues test rests on 9 or 10 statements of equal weight, so changing a single answer can shift a score by up to 11 points. Several statements are framed around particular national debates, such as criminal justice reform or the EU, and may read differently in other countries.

The quiz is also built only for the right. Someone on the left will still be matched to one of the 26 ideologies on this list, which says little about their actual views. Treat your RightValues test result as a starting point for reading and discussion, not as a label.

This is an independent, unofficial version of the RightValues test based on the open-source RightValues project, which is published under the MIT licence. It is not affiliated with, or endorsed by, the authors of RightValues, LeftValues or 8values.

The English statements, their weights, the result labels and the ideology positions come from the RightValues repository on GitHub, with a few spelling and grammar corrections. The Portuguese and Spanish statements are our own translations, as are the descriptions of axes and ideologies on this page.

The project ships two licence files, both MIT: one with the notice Copyright (c) 2021 rightvaluestest, and one that keeps the original 8values notice, Copyright (c) 2020 8values. Both notices apply to this version of the rightvalues quiz.