Free personality test
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- 40 statements
- About 6 minutes
- Free, no sign-up
Built on the public-domain IPIP Big Five statements and scored against a published sample of 320,128 adults. Four scores give your letters; a fifth shows how steady you tend to be.
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How well does each line describe you? Answer as you usually are, not as you wish to be.
I start conversations.
Keyboard: press 1 to 5 to answer, Backspace to go back.
All 40 answered.
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Your result
Your type
A lighter letter is less than one answer from its cut-off, so it could go either way.
Close calls
Where your letters come from
Each bar runs from 0 to 100. The thin line is the cut-off: the published average.
A fifth scale: steadiness
It is not one of the four letters. It shows how you tend to handle stress, and it counts when you compare with someone.
Different from another test?
Your letters come from Big Five scores, so they can differ from other 16-type tests, mostly on F/T and J/P, and can shift if you retake the test. The bars say more than the letters.
How we score
each of the five scales has 8 statements, and half of them are worded the other way round. We average your answers (flipping those), then stretch the 1 to 5 range to 0 to 100. Each letter splits at a cut-off: the average for these kinds of statements in a published sample of 320,128 adults (Kajonius and Johnson, 2019). It is one English-language sample, so treat the cut-offs as a guide. A letter less than one answer from its cut-off is shown both ways.
Cut-offs: Kajonius & Johnson (2019), Europe's Journal of Psychology 15(2), 260-275, Table A1. Sample: 320,128 US adults online, 60% women, mean age 28. Read the paper (open access)
Statements: adapted from the public-domain International Personality Item Pool (IPIP).
Know their type? Pick it
A quick look straight away, from their four letters and your real scores. For the full compare, send them a link.
You + them
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All 16 types
Quick compare: pick two types
Tap your type and theirs. The answer shows straight away.