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Free Big Five personality test

This Big Five personality test shows where you stand on the five broad traits: extraversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, emotional stability and openness to experience. It is the model with the strongest scientific support, and we compare you with people from your country.

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Time
5 min
Questions
25 / 50
Result
5 traits as percentiles
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Personality test (Big Five)

5 min Time25 / 50 Questions

Start the testOpens full screen, one question at a time.

What your result looks like

Example

Your five traits, as percentiles

  • Extraversion34
  • Agreeableness72
  • Conscientiousness58
  • Emotional stability46
  • Openness88
Compared with people from the United Kingdom

The Big Five traits

  • Extraversion: how energised you are by company, talk and action.
  • Agreeableness: your tendency to cooperate, trust and take others’ view.
  • Conscientiousness: organisation, persistence and follow-through.
  • Emotional stability: how much stress and negative emotions affect you.
  • Openness to experience: curiosity, imagination and interest in ideas.

Each trait is a continuum, not a box: most people sit near the middle on most of them. If you only care about the first, the introvert or extrovert test takes two minutes.

How it works

  1. You read statements such as “I am the life of the party” or “I worry about things”.
  2. You rate how well each describes you on a five-point scale, as you are now.
  3. You see your five percentiles with an explanation of each trait.

We use Goldberg’s 50-item markers from the International Personality Item Pool, in the public domain. The free version uses 25 questions; the full one all 50, and is more precise.

Who we compare you with

Percentiles come from more than 590,000 people who answered this same questionnaire on Open Psychometrics. If there are at least 1,000 people from your country, as for the US, UK, Canada, Australia, Ireland or New Zealand, we compare you with them; otherwise with the international sample.

A percentile of 72 on agreeableness means you score higher than 72% of those people. It is not a grade: no trait is good or bad in itself.

Big Five or 16 personalities?

16-personality tests are based on the MBTI and put you in a fixed type such as INFJ or ESTP. They are popular, but they split continuous traits into two halves, and the same person often gets a different type on a retest.

The Big Five measures how much of each trait you have and predicts things like job performance and wellbeing better. That is why psychology research uses it.

Personality, emotions and career

Personality is linked to emotional intelligence (mostly agreeableness and stability) and to career interests: openness and extraversion, for example, go with different types in the career test.

Why take the test on Animi

  • Open scienceQuestions and norms published by researchers. We cite the source of every test.
  • Honest resultsEvery score comes with its margin of error. No online test gives an exact number.
  • No sign-upNo email, no account. Your result is worked out in your browser.
  • Compared with people like youWe place you against people of your age and, where there is data, your country.

Frequently asked questions

Which personality test is the most accurate?

Big Five questionnaires such as this one have the strongest support in research.

How long does it take?

About 5 minutes for the free version and 10 for the full one.

Does personality change with age?

It is fairly stable in adulthood but shifts slowly: on average people become more conscientious, agreeable and emotionally stable.

Is this the same as the 16 personalities test?

No. That gives a fixed MBTI-style type; the Big Five gives a continuous score on each trait and has more scientific support.

Are there right answers?

No. Answer as you usually are, not as you would like to be.

Sources

  1. Goldberg, L. R. (1992). The development of markers for the Big-Five factor structure. Psychological Assessment, 4(1), 26–42.
  2. Roberts, B. W., Walton, K. E. & Viechtbauer, W. (2006). Patterns of mean-level change in personality traits across the life course. Psychological Bulletin, 132(1), 1–25.
  3. Pittenger, D. J. (2005). Cautionary comments regarding the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator. Consulting Psychology Journal, 57(3), 210–221.

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