Big Five personality test

This free personality test has 50 questions and takes about 8 minutes. It uses the public-domain IPIP Big-Five scale and scores five traits from 10 to 50: extraversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, emotional stability and intellect/imagination. It is for self-reflection and entertainment, not a psychological assessment.

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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.

  1. Am the life of the party.
  2. Feel little concern for others.
  3. Am always prepared.
  4. Get stressed out easily.
  5. Have a rich vocabulary.
  6. Don't talk a lot.
  7. Am interested in people.
  8. Leave my belongings around.
  9. Am relaxed most of the time.
  10. Have difficulty understanding abstract ideas.
  11. Feel comfortable around people.
  12. Insult people.
  13. Pay attention to details.
  14. Worry about things.
  15. Have a vivid imagination.
  16. Keep in the background.
  17. Sympathize with others' feelings.
  18. Make a mess of things.
  19. Seldom feel blue.
  20. Am not interested in abstract ideas.
  21. Start conversations.
  22. Am not interested in other people's problems.
  23. Get chores done right away.
  24. Am easily disturbed.
  25. Have excellent ideas.
  26. Have little to say.
  27. Have a soft heart.
  28. Often forget to put things back in their proper place.
  29. Get upset easily.
  30. Do not have a good imagination.
  31. Talk to a lot of different people at parties.
  32. Am not really interested in others.
  33. Like order.
  34. Change my mood a lot.
  35. Am quick to understand things.
  36. Don't like to draw attention to myself.
  37. Take time out for others.
  38. Shirk my duties.
  39. Have frequent mood swings.
  40. Use difficult words.
  41. Don't mind being the center of attention.
  42. Feel others' emotions.
  43. Follow a schedule.
  44. Get irritated easily.
  45. Spend time reflecting on things.
  46. Am quiet around strangers.
  47. Make people feel at ease.
  48. Am exacting in my work.
  49. Often feel blue.
  50. Am full of ideas.

Result

Your result and its explanation will appear here after you answer all 50 questions.

About this quiz

  • The questions are the 50-item Big-Five factor markers of the International Personality Item Pool (IPIP), which is in the public domain (Goldberg, 1992).
  • Each answer scores 1 to 5, and reverse-keyed questions are scored the other way round. Each trait has 10 questions, so its score is from 10 to 50.
  • Low, average and high are equal thirds of the score range (10–23, 24–36, 37–50), not a comparison with other people. No trait is good or bad.
  • This test is for self-reflection and entertainment. It is not a psychological assessment.

Scoring

  • Extraversion: How much you enjoy company and are active among people.
  • Agreeableness: How much you care about and consider other people.
  • Conscientiousness: How organised and careful you are in what you do.
  • Emotional stability: How calm and steady your mood is.
  • Intellect/Imagination: Your imagination, curiosity and interest in abstract ideas.
ScoreResult
10–23Low
24–36Average
37–50High

Source and copyright

IPIP 50-item Big-Five Factor Markers
Goldberg, L. R. (1992). The development of markers for the Big-Five factor structure. Psychological Assessment, 4, 26-42.
IPIP items are in the public domain. Permission has been granted for any person to use them for any purpose.
The questions are the original English IPIP items.
  1. International Personality Item Pool: Administering IPIP Measures, with a 50-item Sample Questionnaire
  2. International Personality Item Pool: Chinese Translation of the IPIP 50-item Big-Five markers
  3. International Personality Item Pool: Permission to use IPIP materials

Last checked: October 26, 2026.