Find out your personality type with a free test of the Big Five traits: openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness and emotional sensitivity.
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Am relaxed and handle stress well
Am outgoing and sociable
Am inventive and find clever ways to do things
Tend to find fault with others
Am dependable and steady
In short
Take a free personality test in about five minutes, then read what your scores mean.
This free online personality test measures the Big Five personality traits with 60 short statements. Your results appear when you finish: a score out of 100 for each trait, the facets under it, and a plain-language report on your strengths, relationships and work. There is no email, no sign-up and nothing to unlock. Read on for what personality type you are, how the test works and how accurate it is.
Sample report
A real report from the scoring engine you’re about to use. Yours will have its own shape, and every tab is in your free report.
Your personality profile
You are among the most organised people who take this test. Order is not a chore for you; it is how you think. Few people score this high on openness. You live closer to the future than most rooms allow for.
Your five scores
Each number is where you sit out of 100 compared with people who have taken this test. Listed from the score that says most about you to the one that says least.
Conscientiousness
Exacting
94of 100
You are among the most organised people who take this test. Order is not a chore for you; it is how you think.
Openness to experience
Endlessly curious
93of 100
Few people score this high on openness. You live closer to the future than most rooms allow for.
Emotional sensitivity
Deeply steady
8of 100
Very little gets under your skin for long. When plans fall apart, you are usually the one still thinking clearly.
Extraversion
Wholeheartedly social
92of 100
You are among the most outgoing people who take this test. Life happens for you in company, and you make company happen.
Agreeableness
Deeply kind
91of 100
You are among the warmest people who take this test. Other people’s wellbeing registers with you as vividly as your own.
At a glance
Communication
Warm and outgoing
You warm a room quickly, and tend to read it first.
Energy
Steady-on
Long days do not faze you, and you recharge with people.
Focus
Long-horizon
You set a long horizon, then break it into a plan.
Decisions
Open and clear-headed
You weigh unfamiliar options without much agonising.
Your signature strengths
Awareness
The Unshakable
You stay centred when everything around you starts to shake
Confidence
The Deliverer
You trust your ability to get it done, and others trust you too
How you tend to land in a room
What people probably experience around you
You tend to create a naturally warm relational climate, with a steady ability to come back after friction.
People around you likely feel both seen and safe. The sections below show how this plays out in practice.
When things are going well, you tend to be openly affectionate and emotionally generous. People around you often feel seen and valued, and your warmth is something they come to rely on.
What this looks like in your life
Conscientiousness
You see the missing step before the meeting starts, and you have usually already fixed it. Deadlines land early, details are right, and the audit nobody wanted gets done quietly by you. People build their timelines around your reliability. At this level the trait needs a counterweight: perfectionism delays the good enough, control crowds out other people, and a plan gets held past the point it stopped working. Decide in advance which things deserve your full standard and which can be merely fine.
Openness
Ideas arrive faster than you can write them down. You see the angle nobody else looked at, and art, theory, unusual people and stranger questions pull at you with an appetite that never quite switches off. Original work comes from here, and colleagues keep borrowing your thinking long after you have moved on. The cost is real: the ordinary feels like a waiting room, you start more than you finish, and the detail that keeps a project alive can slip. Pick collaborators, tools and routines that hold the ground while you go looking for the next door.
Sensitivity
A blunt message, a missed train, a tense meeting: you register them and move on, often before other people have finished reacting. Friends ring you in the messy hour after bad news for exactly that reason. The catch is that other people’s alarm can look oversized from where you stand. When someone close to you is frightened, sit with it before you reach for the fix. Calm works best offered, not assumed.
Extraversion
Yes, come over, I’ll text everyone. You remember names, you fill the gap before it turns awkward, and people leave your table feeling more interesting than they arrived. Groups form and plans exist because you are in them. The edge: sitting with something alone is hard, and a quiet weekend can feel like a problem to solve. Give your closest people the attention you give the crowd. Your best ideas tend to arrive in the rare hour when nobody is there to hear them first.
Agreeableness
You remember the appointment everyone else forgot, check on the friend who has gone quiet, and assume the best of a stranger until given a reason not to. People relax around you and tell you things they have told nobody else. The risk at this level is well known: too easy to take advantage of, too slow to ask for your share, too quick to smooth over a wrong that needed naming. Trust your judgement about people as much as your instinct to help them.
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See My PersonalityThe short answer
Your type is the pattern made by where you sit on five traits. This free personality test measures all five and describes the pattern in plain words.
A score out of 100 on each of the Big Five personality traits, the three facets under each, and a full report on your strengths, relationships, work and resilience. Every tab is free.
You rate 60 short statements, such as “Am dependable and steady”, from disagree to agree. Each trait gets a score that shows where you sit compared with other people who took the same test.
Understanding yourself, explaining yourself to other people, and noticing a pattern you had not named. It describes you. It does not define you, and it is not a diagnosis.
Want a four-letter type instead? Take the 16 Types Personality Test.
Before you start
The practical things first, then the harder ones.
Yes, all of it. There is no paywall, no card, no subscription and nothing to cancel, and every tab of the report is free. After the last statement we ask your age and one short research question. Both are optional, and your report opens either way.
No. Your report opens as soon as you finish. Email only matters later, if you want to save a result and compare it with a future one.
About five minutes. There are 60 short statements, and half of the people who take it finish in about four minutes. Nothing is timed, so take the time you need.
Your answers are scored in your browser. Some things do reach us. Your results link carries a short code of your scores, which our server sees when your report opens. In about one test in ten we also store each answer and how long it took, anonymised under a random ID rather than your name, which is how we keep the scoring honest. If you give your age or answer the question after the test, we keep that with your scores. We never ask for your name, and we only ask for an email if you choose to save a result. We do not sell personal data, and there are no advertising trackers on the test. The detail is in the privacy policy.
Accurate enough to be useful, and honest about its limits. The Big Five is the standard model in personality research, and the same five traits turn up across dozens of cultures (McCrae and Terracciano, 2005). When people retake our test a week or more later, their scores line up closely, with correlations of about 0.7 to 0.8. What limits any result most is the answers: it reads your own account of yourself, on one day. It describes you. It does not define you, and it is not a diagnosis.
It happens, usually for one of three reasons. You answered for your best day rather than a normal one. A score sits near the middle, where a couple of answers tip the wording. Or a trait is split: about half of people have a trait where one part sits high and another sits low, like being easy with friends and dreading speaking up in a group. Your report shows those parts separately, so look at them before you decide it got you wrong.
Mostly, yes. Scores move a few points between takes, and that is normal, especially for a score near the middle. A big change usually means you answered with a different week, mood or role in mind. Answer for how you usually are, and your result will stay steady.
No. Every trait has two useful ends, and neither end is the good one. A high Sensitivity score, for example, means you feel things strongly and notice trouble early. It is a description of how you work, not a judgement and not a diagnosis.
Yes. Your result lives in its own link, so you can bookmark it or copy it and open it again later. If you want to keep it with a future result, you can save it with your email.
It asks how well short statements describe you, then compares your answers with other people's. Here you rate 60 statements from disagree to agree. Answer for how you usually are, not for your best day. Each trait then gets a score out of 100 that says what share of test-takers you sit above.
It is as quick as a quiz and built like a test. The 60 statements are adapted from published Big Five research, everyone is scored the same way, and your result is compared with tens of thousands of other people who took the same test.
You are a mix of five traits: how open you are to new things, how organised, how outgoing, how warm, and how strongly you feel things. This test puts a number on each and describes the combination in plain words, so you can say what kind of person you are and why.
Start here if you want to understand yourself: five traits, measured. For a four-letter type to share and compare, take the 16 Types Personality Test. For what drives you, try the Enneagram Test. For how you work with other people, the DISC Test, and for how you behave close up, the Attachment Style Test. All of them are free.
Your Extraversion score answers that on a scale rather than a switch. High scores lean extrovert, low scores lean introvert, and the wide middle is what people mean by an ambivert: you can enjoy a crowd and still need a quiet evening afterwards. Most people sit somewhere in that middle.
Slowly, and mostly in one direction. People tend to become more conscientious, more agreeable and less reactive through their twenties and thirties. Six months from now will look much like today. Six years may not.
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See My PersonalityThe model
Psychologists describe personality with five broad traits, known as the Big Five, the five-factor model or OCEAN: Openness, Conscientiousness, Extraversion, Agreeableness and Neuroticism. They came out of decades of research into the words people use to describe each other. For the traits and all fifteen facets in detail, see the Big Five personality test.
Each trait is a line with two useful ends, and your report says which end you are nearer, and how far. Neither end is the good end.
How much you are drawn to new ideas, new experiences and the unfamiliar.
How much structure you build, and how reliably you finish what you start.
Where your energy comes from, and how much of yourself you put into a room.
Whether you default to keeping the peace or to saying the difficult thing.
How strongly feelings register, and how long they stay. Textbooks call it neuroticism, a harsher word than it deserves: it measures how much you feel, not whether anything is wrong with you.
Use the trait words. “I’m on the reserved side, quite organised, and I feel things strongly” tells someone a lot about you, and it is what you actually scored. Your report gives you those sentences ready made.
Our research
Only about one in five people are average on all five traits. Most people sit near an edge on at least one.
We looked at tens of thousands of completed tests to see how often each pattern turns up, and how people answer. Read the research.
See where you land.
Sixty statements, about five minutes, and your report opens when you finish. Free, with no email and no card.
Method
Sixty short statements measure the five traits and three facets under each. They are adapted from the BFI-2, the Big Five questionnaire published by Christopher Soto and Oliver John in 2017, and written in the first person, so each one reads like something you might say about yourself.
Your percentiles compare you with tens of thousands of people who took this same test here, so you are measured against the people actually taking it.
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