Test your eye for prompting patterns
Most prompt-engineering guides teach the techniques one at a time — but in practice the hard skill is the reverse: looking at a prompt or an output and recognising which pattern is at work, so you can reuse it deliberately. This quiz drills exactly that. Each question shows a realistic snippet and asks you to name the technique behind it, from a plain zero-shot instruction to a tool-using ReAct loop.
How the quiz works
You answer one question at a time. Click an option and the quiz tells you immediately whether you were right, then shows a short explanation that names the pattern and describes its tell-tale signature — the worked examples that mark few-shot, the visible “let’s think step by step” reasoning of chain-of-thought, the Thought/Action/Observation rhythm of ReAct, and so on. Your score accumulates as you go, and at the end you get a percentage plus a note on which patterns to revisit.
Tips for getting a high score
Look for the structural fingerprint of each pattern rather than the topic. If the prompt contains several input-output pairs before the real task, it is few-shot. If the output exposes its intermediate reasoning before the answer, it is chain-of-thought. If the model interleaves reasoning with tool calls and their results, it is ReAct. If the same question is sampled many times and the majority answer is taken, that is self-consistency. Once you can spot these signatures on sight, you will reach for the right technique faster in your own work — and waste fewer tokens getting there.