What’s My Padel Level? — a 12-question honest test
Twelve questions about what you actually do on court — the back wall, the serve, the overhead, how your rallies end — scored into one number on the 0–7 scale, with the band it sits in and the honest error bars around it. No sign-up, no account.
Question 1 of 12
How long have you been playing padel?
Any racket-sport background before padel?
A ball comes off the back wall —
The question that separates levels faster than any other.
Your serve, honestly
At the net, you —
The lob in your game
Bandeja or víbora — reality check
The overhead that keeps you at the net instead of smashing your way off it.
How do your rallies usually end?
Positioning with your partner
How often do you play an actual match?
Against the regulars at your club, you —
The honest one: in your crew of regulars, you are —
Worth the least of the twelve. What you think you are is the weakest evidence there is.
Tap an answer, or press 1–5
Club regular
Roughly where the same player sits elsewhere. No official conversions exist between systems, so these are approximations, not translations. MATCHi levels are self-assessed and run 1–10 (padel in Denmark is the one exception, on 1–7), and an LTA-style number reads about half a point higher than a 0–7 platform level for the same game.
Treat this as a band, not a decimal: a self-assessment lands within about half a level of what a club coach would say, and the error is not random. Almost everyone over-rates their serve and under-rates how often the back wall beats them, so if you were generous on those two, read yourself half a level lower.
A single global number is fuzzy by nature — it has to describe you against strangers you will never play. Inside a fixed crew it gets sharp fast, because the same eight or ten people keep playing each other and every result is evidence about the same small group.
How the test is scored
Twelve questions, each answer carrying a weight, and one division at the end. The weights run from 0 for the weakest answer up to a ceiling that differs per question, because the questions are not equally informative. The two that separate levels fastest — what you do with a ball off the back wall, and whether you actually hit a bandeja — top out at 0.9. Serve, net play, the lob, partner positioning and how your rallies end top out between 0.4 and 0.7. The self-image question, where you rank yourself inside your own crew, tops out at 0.3, because what a player thinks they are is the weakest evidence on the page.
Add the twelve answers and the strongest possible total is 7.6. Your level is then 0.6 + (your total ÷ 7.6) × 6.2, which maps the questionnaire onto the part of the 0–7 scale a questionnaire is entitled to: the floor is 0.6 and the ceiling is 6.8. A set of forms cannot tell you that you have never held a racket, and it certainly cannot award you the professional tour, so neither end of the scale is reachable from here.
Every weight on this page is our judgement. Nobody publishes a validated padel self-assessment, so there is no coefficient here to check against a paper — what there is, is a ranking of which questions deserve to matter, written down where you can disagree with it.
The band, the description and the cross-scale columns come from one shared six-band map used identically by this test, the level converter and the change simulator, so two pages on this site can never hand you different answers. The ±0.5 shown beside your number is a plain statement that a self-assessment lands within about half a level of a coach's reading, and the error is not random: most players over-rate their serve and under-rate how often the back wall beats them.
Where this comes from
- What is my padel rating? — the 1.0 to 7.0 self-assessment statements Lawn Tennis Association (LTA)
- Levels for players — the self-assessed 1 to 10 level scale MATCHi player help centre
Rivals is not affiliated with any padel federation and nothing here is coached, reviewed or official. Where a number is our own judgement rather than a published figure, the note above says so and cites nothing. Method last checked 21 August 2026.
What a single level number leaves out
A level number compresses everything you do on court into one decimal, and the compression loses things. Two players who both test at 3.0 can be nothing alike: one has an overhead that keeps the net and no defense at the back glass, the other survives every ball to the wall and cannot hold the net for a rally. That is why an honest level tool hands you a band and a description rather than a figure on its own — the description is the part you can act on.
Self-assessment has a known bias, and it is not symmetrical. Players over-rate what they practise and under-rate what they get punished for, so the serve reads high and the back-wall defense reads generous. If you were strict with yourself on the wall question and generous on the serve, take half a level off; if it was the other way round, your number is about right.
The deeper problem is the job one global number is being asked to do: describe you against strangers you will never play, on evidence gathered from the same handful of people every week. Inside a fixed group the same arithmetic sharpens fast, because every result is evidence about the same players — which is exactly why a crew-local rating beats a global one for anyone who plays with the same faces.
Questions
What are padel levels 1 to 7?
How accurate is a padel level self-test?
What padel level are most club players?
How do I get from 2.5 to 3.5 in padel?
Do the numbers on different padel level systems match?
More tools
Padel Level Converter
Convert a padel level between the 0–7 scale, MATCHi 1–10, an LTA-style rating and club letters, with the caveat each earns. No official conversion exists.
Level Change Simulator
Why did your padel level move like that? Set four levels, your reliability and the result for an estimated change range, with the expectation math explained.
Padel Elo Calculator
Free padel Elo calculator for doubles. Enter four ratings, a K-factor and the games score to get each player's new rating, the points moved and the win odds.
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