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16 personality types test

This view draws your Big Five result as four dials and a code.This view draws your Big Five result as four dials and a code.

Take the Big Five test

It asks no questions of its own: take the Big Five test once, and your dials appear here.

About this view

This 16 personality types test is not a test of its own. It is a view over your Big Five result: it takes the answers you gave to the 120 statements of the Big Five test and shows them as four dials, one for each pair of letters that sixteen-type questionnaires use, together with the closest Jungian-style code. Nothing is asked here, nothing leaves your browser, and no type names are given. If you have not taken it yet, this page offers it first[1].

How the page works

  1. Take the Big Five test on this site. Its result is saved in this browser, and nowhere else.
  2. Open this page. It reads the saved result and draws it as four dials; nothing is asked and nothing is sent.
  3. Look at the four dials first. Each is a ruler with its two letters at the ends, and a dial close to the middle shows both.
  4. Read the code last. It is the closest Jungian-style code to your dials, and the page says plainly what it is not.

What your type view means

The view has two levels, and the first matters more. The four dials come first, each a ruler that shows how far your answers lie from the middle and to which end. The letters are shorthand for the end you lean to. Most people sit near the middle of most rulers, and a dial that close to the middle shows both letters, because the answers behind it could have gone either way on another day.

The code comes last. It is the closest Jungian-style code to your dials: the letters you would be given if each dial were forced to one end. It is a convenient shorthand, and no more. Two people with the same code can differ a great deal, and one person can see a letter change between two Big Five results taken months apart, most often on a dial that was close to the middle.

This is not the MBTI instrument. The view asks no questions of its own, it follows no publisher's scoring, and it gives no type names; it only re-reads your Big Five answers in the form people who know sixteen-type codes expect. A result from a type questionnaire and the code here can therefore differ, and when they do, the rulers above are the more detailed description.

How we measure

Nothing is measured on this page. It reads the Big Five result that this browser has kept, which was scored from the IPIP-NEO-120, a public-domain questionnaire with 120 statements[1]. Below are its statements, its scoring key, its licence and its paper, exactly as the Big Five test uses them.

  • E or I is read from your Extraversion, S or N from your Openness, T or F from your Agreeableness, and J or P from your Conscientiousness. Neuroticism has no letter.
  • A dial is measured from the middle of its scale in steps of a sixth of the scale, because we have no checked average of other people for the Big Five test yet. Where we have checked one, the dials will be measured from its average and its spread instead, and the page will say so.
  • A dial within a quarter of a step of the middle shows both letters. The line itself belongs to the middle.
  • A result that was kept out of comparisons, because the answers came too fast or were all the same, gives no view, and neither does one with a trait that has too few answers. The page says so and offers the Big Five test again.
  • We have not yet checked the research on how closely these four dials agree with the type questionnaires, so we claim nothing about it beyond the pairing itself.

The questionnaire as we use it

The authors' instructions

Describe yourself as you generally are now, not as you wish to be in the future. Describe yourself as you honestly see yourself, in relation to other people you know of the same sex as you are, and roughly your same age. So that you can describe yourself in an honest manner, your responses will be kept in absolute confidence. Indicate for each statement whether it is 1. Very Inaccurate, 2. Moderately Inaccurate, 3. Neither Accurate Nor Inaccurate, 4. Moderately Accurate, or 5. Very Accurate as a description of you.

The statements

Each statement is printed as its authors wrote it. R: counted backwards.

  1. Worry about things.
  2. Make friends easily.
  3. Have a vivid imagination.
  4. Trust others.
  5. Complete tasks successfully.
  6. Get angry easily.
  7. Love large parties.
  8. Believe in the importance of art.
  9. Use others for my own ends.R
  10. Like to tidy up.
  11. Often feel blue.
  12. Take charge.
  13. Experience my emotions intensely.
  14. Love to help others.
  15. Keep my promises.
  16. Find it difficult to approach others.
  17. Am always busy.
  18. Prefer variety to routine.
  19. Love a good fight.R
  20. Work hard.
  21. Go on binges.
  22. Love excitement.
  23. Love to read challenging material.
  24. Believe that I am better than others.R
  25. Am always prepared.
  26. Panic easily.
  27. Radiate joy.
  28. Tend to vote for liberal political candidates.
  29. Sympathize with the homeless.
  30. Jump into things without thinking.R
  31. Fear for the worst.
  32. Feel comfortable around people.
  33. Enjoy wild flights of fantasy.
  34. Believe that others have good intentions.
  35. Excel in what I do.
  36. Get irritated easily.
  37. Talk to a lot of different people at parties.
  38. See beauty in things that others might not notice.
  39. Cheat to get ahead.R
  40. Often forget to put things back in their proper place.R
  41. Dislike myself.
  42. Try to lead others.
  43. Feel others' emotions.
  44. Am concerned about others.
  45. Tell the truth.
  46. Am afraid to draw attention to myself.
  47. Am always on the go.
  48. Prefer to stick with things that I know.R
  49. Yell at people.R
  50. Do more than what's expected of me.
  51. Rarely overindulge.R
  52. Seek adventure.
  53. Avoid philosophical discussions.R
  54. Think highly of myself.R
  55. Carry out my plans.
  56. Become overwhelmed by events.
  57. Have a lot of fun.
  58. Believe that there is no absolute right and wrong.
  59. Feel sympathy for those who are worse off than myself.
  60. Make rash decisions.R
  61. Am afraid of many things.
  62. Avoid contacts with others.R
  63. Love to daydream.
  64. Trust what people say.
  65. Handle tasks smoothly.
  66. Lose my temper.
  67. Prefer to be alone.R
  68. Do not like poetry.R
  69. Take advantage of others.R
  70. Leave a mess in my room.R
  71. Am often down in the dumps.
  72. Take control of things.
  73. Rarely notice my emotional reactions.R
  74. Am indifferent to the feelings of others.R
  75. Break rules.R
  76. Only feel comfortable with friends.
  77. Do a lot in my spare time.
  78. Dislike changes.R
  79. Insult people.R
  80. Do just enough work to get by.R
  81. Easily resist temptations.R
  82. Enjoy being reckless.
  83. Have difficulty understanding abstract ideas.R
  84. Have a high opinion of myself.R
  85. Waste my time.R
  86. Feel that I'm unable to deal with things.
  87. Love life.
  88. Tend to vote for conservative political candidates.R
  89. Am not interested in other people's problems.R
  90. Rush into things.R
  91. Get stressed out easily.
  92. Keep others at a distance.R
  93. Like to get lost in thought.
  94. Distrust people.R
  95. Know how to get things done.
  96. Am not easily annoyed.R
  97. Avoid crowds.R
  98. Do not enjoy going to art museums.R
  99. Obstruct others' plans.R
  100. Leave my belongings around.R
  101. Feel comfortable with myself.R
  102. Wait for others to lead the way.R
  103. Don't understand people who get emotional.R
  104. Take no time for others.R
  105. Break my promises.R
  106. Am not bothered by difficult social situations.R
  107. Like to take it easy.R
  108. Am attached to conventional ways.R
  109. Get back at others.R
  110. Put little time and effort into my work.R
  111. Am able to control my cravings.R
  112. Act wild and crazy.
  113. Am not interested in theoretical discussions.R
  114. Boast about my virtues.R
  115. Have difficulty starting tasks.R
  116. Remain calm under pressure.R
  117. Look at the bright side of life.
  118. Believe that we should be tough on crime.R
  119. Try not to think about the needy.R
  120. Act without thinking.R

Answers, from 1 to 5

  • 1 Very Inaccurate
  • 2 Moderately Inaccurate
  • 3 Neither Accurate Nor Inaccurate
  • 4 Moderately Accurate
  • 5 Very Accurate

How it is scored

  • Neuroticism: the sum of statements 1, 6, 11, 16, 21, 26, 31, 36, 41, 46, 51R, 56, 61, 66, 71, 76, 81R, 86, 91, 96R, 101R, 106R, 111R, 116R.
  • Extraversion: the sum of statements 2, 7, 12, 17, 22, 27, 32, 37, 42, 47, 52, 57, 62R, 67R, 72, 77, 82, 87, 92R, 97R, 102R, 107R, 112, 117.
  • Openness to experience: the sum of statements 3, 8, 13, 18, 23, 28, 33, 38, 43, 48R, 53R, 58, 63, 68R, 73R, 78R, 83R, 88R, 93, 98R, 103R, 108R, 113R, 118R.
  • Agreeableness: the sum of statements 4, 9R, 14, 19R, 24R, 29, 34, 39R, 44, 49R, 54R, 59, 64, 69R, 74R, 79R, 84R, 89R, 94R, 99R, 104R, 109R, 114R, 119R.
  • Conscientiousness: the sum of statements 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30R, 35, 40R, 45, 50, 55, 60R, 65, 70R, 75R, 80R, 85R, 90R, 95, 100R, 105R, 110R, 115R, 120R.

A statement marked R is counted backwards: an answer a counts as 6 minus a.

Licence

Public domain (International Personality Item Pool)

Because the IPIP has been placed in the public domain, permission has already been automatically granted for any person to use IPIP items, scales, and inventories for any purpose, commercial or non-commercial..

https://ipip.ori.org/newPermission.htm

Read at the source on October 1, 2026.

How to cite it

Johnson, J. A. (2014). Measuring thirty facets of the Five Factor Model with a 120-item public domain inventory: Development of the IPIP-NEO-120. Journal of Research in Personality, 51, 78-89. doi:10.1016/j.jrp.2014.05.003

Goldberg, L. R., Johnson, J. A., Eber, H. W., Hogan, R., Ashton, M. C., Cloninger, C. R., & Gough, H. G. (2006). The International Personality Item Pool and the future of public-domain personality measures. Journal of Research in Personality, 40(1), 84-96. doi:10.1016/j.jrp.2005.08.007

Dials, not boxes

Sixteen-type systems sort people into boxes: you are one end of each pair or the other. Researchers who study personality prefer rulers, because the answers people give spread along a scale with most of them in the middle, and the middle is where a box is least reliable. That is why this page shows the four rulers first and the code last, and why a dial close to the middle keeps both of its letters instead of being rounded to one.

If you want the fuller picture, the Big Five test gives the same five traits with thirty facets beneath them, and it is where this view takes its answers from.

What the letters stand for

  • E and I: extraversion and introversion, where your energy goes. Here, outgoing or quiet.
  • S and N: sensing and intuition, what you attend to. Here, down-to-earth or open to new things.
  • T and F: thinking and feeling, how you weigh a choice. Here, direct or warm.
  • J and P: judging and perceiving, how you like to run your life. Here, organised or easy-going.

The letters come from the type theory of Carl Jung and from the questionnaires built on it; the pair J and P belongs to those later questionnaires. The plain words next to each letter are ours, chosen to match the Big Five trait that each pair is read from, and they describe the Big Five trait, not the type theory's own meaning of the letter.

Why the fifth trait has no letter

The Big Five has five traits and a type code has four pairs. The fifth trait, neuroticism, which this site words as sensitive or calm, has no pair in the type systems, so it has no letter here. It is still in your Big Five result, and it is worth reading: how strongly worries and moods reach you shapes a day more than most of the letters do.

Questions

Is this the MBTI?

No. It is a view over your Big Five answers. It asks no questions of its own, gives no type names and follows no publisher's scoring, so a code here and a code from a type questionnaire can differ.

Why do I have to take the Big Five test first?

Because the view is made from its answers. We would rather draw four dials from a real, longer test than ask a few new questions and call it a type.

Why does one dial show two letters?

Your answers on that dial are close to the middle, so they do not tell the two letters apart. Showing both is more honest than picking one.

Why is there no letter for sensitive or calm?

Type systems have four pairs and the Big Five has five traits. The fifth, neuroticism, has no pair, so it has no letter. It stays in your Big Five result.

Where is my result kept?

In this browser only. The page reads your saved Big Five result, draws it and stores nothing new. Nothing goes into a web address, a message to us or a statistic.

Sources

  1. Johnson, J. A. (2014). Measuring thirty facets of the Five Factor Model with a 120-item public domain inventory: Development of the IPIP-NEO-120. Journal of Research in Personality, 51, 78-89.doi:10.1016/j.jrp.2014.05.003