Which Generation Are You at Heart? (Quiz)

How this generation quiz works

This quiz asks 10 quick, everyday questions: how you wish a friend happy birthday, how you feel about phone calls, where you get your news, what you snack on and how you give directions. Each answer points toward one of five generations: Baby Boomer, Gen X, Millennial, Gen Z or Gen Alpha. Your result is the generation your habits match most often.

It takes about a minute, there’s no sign-up, and your answers are scored right in your browser. Your actual birth year doesn’t enter into it at all. Plenty of people born in the 2000s answer like Boomers, and plenty of grandparents turn out to be Gen Z at heart. Pick what you’d really do, not what you think your age group is supposed to do.

A quick, honest note

This is a quiz for fun, not a scientific test. Generation labels are loose, and researchers and media outlets don’t always agree on the exact cutoff years. Every generation includes people with wildly different lives, incomes, hometowns and tastes, so the descriptions here are playful sketches of common habits, not rules about anyone. Your result says something about your style and routines, not your age.

If you want the real definitions, our guide to generation names and years lays out each group from the Silent Generation to Gen Alpha, with the date ranges most commonly used.

What to do with your result

• Share it with family and friends and compare. A family group chat where the youngest person gets Boomer and the oldest gets Gen Z is a guaranteed good time.
• Curious about the two most compared groups? Read Gen Z vs. Millennials: 15 real differences.
• Got a result that’s older than your birth certificate? You might relate to these signs you’re an old soul.
• Want to go further back in time? Try our which decade are you from quiz next.

Whatever you get, every generation has something worth borrowing: the Boomer phone call, the Gen X independence, the Millennial planning, the Gen Z creativity and the Gen Alpha curiosity. Take the parts you like and have fun with the rest.

All possible results