30 questions, about 10 minutes. No account needed — see your Chinese level on the CEFR scale right away.
Thirty questions measure your reading comprehension, grammar and vocabulary. The questions get harder as you go, and the result is given directly on the CEFR scale (A1–C2) — the scale universities, employers and immigration offices actually use.
What it does not measure, plainly: speaking and listening are not part of this test. People usually underrate themselves on reading and overrate themselves on speaking. Treat the result as a starting point, not a verdict.
Your result lands on one of the six steps below.
Reaching a fluent level from zero takes roughly 2200 classroom hours.
Official exam: HSK — administered by Chinese Testing International.
This estimate comes from the US Foreign Service Institute (FSI) language categories and is calculated for native English speakers. If your first language is different, the number changes.
Yes. You do not need an account, no card details are asked for, and seeing your result costs nothing.
Thirty questions, about ten minutes. You can stop and start over whenever you like.
No. This test does not issue a recognised certificate. For that you need to sit an exam with an institution such as Goethe-Institut, IELTS, DELF or DELE.
Start studying at the level you got. The most common mistake is starting at the wrong level: too easy is boring, too hard makes people quit within a week.