FREE Personality Test: Determine Your Myers-Briggs Personality Type Online In Less Than Five Minutes
At some point, nearly everyone asks themselves: “What is my personality type?” followed by questions such as “What career path should I choose?” and/or “What college or degree would best match my personality type?”
While some mysteries of humanity may never be answered, modern psychology has made great strides in understanding the various human personality types that exist. While you may never know how much of your personality is nature (“God-given”) vs. nurture (influenced by your environment), you can better understand what drives your personal habits and thought processes by taking our scientific personality test, below, and thus better contemplate your life decisions going forward.
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Below is a FREE personality test based on the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, which was developed in the 1960s by Katharine Cook Briggs and her daughter, Isabel Briggs Myers, during World War II for American women entering the workforce. It is based on the research of Carl Gustav Jung, a Swiss psychiatrist, and remains the most popular personality indicator in the world. At the bottom of this page, you will be able to explore careers, degrees, and colleges related to your personality type.
Every person has two faces. One is directed towards the OUTER world of activities, excitements, people, and things. The other is directed inward to the INNER world of thoughts, interests, ideas, and imagination. While these are two different but complementary sides of our nature, most people have an innate preference towards energy from either the OUTER or the INNER world. Thus one of their faces, either the Extraverted (E) or Introverted (I), takes the lead in their personality development and plays a more dominant role in their behavior.
Extraverted Characteristics
- I usually act before I think
- If I’m away from other people too much, I feel quite stranded, like I’m missing out on something
- I feel motivated and inspired by being around other people; I welcome new situations and conversations
- I enjoy a variety of friendships and situational changes
(E) This sounds like me
Introverted Characteristics
- I usually think before I act
- If I’m around other people too much, I feel quite annoyed, and require alone time to feel refreshed
- I feel motivated and inspired by my own thoughts and ideas, and I sometimes forget about other people
- I prefer a limited amount of friendships and situations
(I) This sounds like me
The Sensing (S) side of our brain notices the sights, sounds, smells and all the sensory details of the PRESENT. It categorizes, organizes, records and stores the specifics from the here and now. It is REALITY based, dealing with “what is.” It also provides the specific details of memory & recollections from PAST events. The Intuitive (N) side of our brain seeks to understand, interpret and form OVERALL patterns of all the information that is collected and records these patterns and relationships. It speculates on POSSIBILITIES, including looking into and forecasting the FUTURE. It is imaginative and conceptual. While both kinds of perceiving are necessary and used by all people, each of us instinctively tends to favor one over the other.
Sensing Characteristics
- I usually think about today’s events, or “right now” kinds of issues
- I use common sense to find practical solutions to solve problems
- My memories are focused on facts and specific details about the past
- I best improvise and learn about life based on my past experiences
- I prefer clear and concrete information; I dislike guessing or surmising when facts are “fuzzy”
(S) This sounds like me
Intuitive Characteristics
- I usually think about future issues and potential possibilities
- I use creative thinking and imagine scenarios to solve problems
- My memories are focused on patterns, context, and relations
- I best improvise and learn about life from theoretical understanding
- I am comfortable with ambiguous, “fuzzy” data and often enjoy figuring out what the “bigger picture” is
(N) This sounds like me
The Thinking (T) side of our brain analyzes information in a DETACHED, objective fashion. It operates from factual principles, deduces and forms conclusions systematically. It is our logical nature. The Feeling (F) side of our brain forms conclusions in an ATTACHED and somewhat global manner, based on likes/dislikes, impact on others, and human and aesthetic values. It is our subjective nature. While everyone uses both means of forming conclusions, each person has a natural bias towards one over the other so that when they give us conflicting directions – one side is the natural trump card or tiebreaker.
Thinking Characteristics
- I rely on facts and logic when making most of my decisions
- I naturally focus on what tasks and milestones need attention
- I am easily able to provide an objective, critical analysis
- I accept conflict as a normal part of relationships with people
(T) This sounds like me
Feeling Characteristics
- I rely on personal feelings when making most of my decisions
- I naturally notice when people and their feelings need attention
- I prefer seeking a consensus of opinion with the people around me
- I am unsettled by conflict with others and try hard to avoid it
(F) This sounds like me
All people use both judging (thinking and feeling) and perceiving (sensing and intuition) processes to store information, organize our thoughts, make decisions, take actions and manage our lives. Yet one of these processes (Judging or Perceiving) tends to take the lead in our relationship with the outside world . . . while the other governs our inner world. A Judging (J) style approaches the outside world WITH A PLAN and is oriented towards organizing one’s surroundings, being prepared, making decisions and reaching closure and completion. A Perceiving (P) style takes the outside world AS IT COMES and is adopting and adapting, flexible, open-ended and receptive to new opportunities and changing game plans.
Judging Characteristics
- Plan many of the details in advance before moving into action.
- Focus on task-related action; complete meaningful segments before moving on.
- Work best and avoid stress when able to keep ahead of deadlines.
- Naturally use targets, dates and standard routines to manage life.
(J) This sounds like me
Perceiving Characteristics
- Comfortable moving into action without a plan; plan on-the-go.
- Like to multitask, have variety, mix work and play.
- Naturally tolerant of time pressure; work best close to the deadlines.
- Instinctively avoid commitments which interfere with flexibility, freedom and variety
(P) This sounds like me
ISFJ
As I scrolled down I noticed that there are not that many people that have this personality.
I plan to learn how to add the other ones to improve my social and business skills. Thank you for this test, very helpful.
THANKS
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My Letters are ISTJ
I can for sure say that I have many of the personality traits that were listed, but I do also have some other amazing personality traits and like everyone else some not so great traits..
Extraverted,sensing,feeling,judging personality
My fellow EntP I’ve never ever met a entp and have just learned about it.
ISFJ.
This morning I learned about my personality through this test. My letters are: (E) – Extrovery, (S) Sensing, (F) Feeling, (P) Perceiving.
I found it to be pretty amazing, as many things of the characteristics that were listed were things that I had already known about myself. However, in reading each one, also made me realize that depending on the situation, our personality adjust accordingly depending on how we receive the information brought before us.
I have to say this was a great exercise!
The results of my “mini-test” about myself are:
I.N.F.P.
That is one thing I do know and understand about myself:* Love people- Love just when its me. *Know the things that I need to get accomplished -Yet everyone’s wants/needs come before my own *Very independent: Preach people becoming more self sufficient everyday – Yet tend to volunteer the gobs of extra time in a day
(that is NON-EXISTINT) that I have to solve anything ‘they’ “need my assistance” on… like I can save the world
My letters for the personality traits are
ENFP. I never sat down and wrote down my traits that was interesting.
My personality type is ENFP which I never put on paper like this interesting way of perceiving personality.
Certainly a lot to take in.
Me in a nutshell..
Im lo ing tbis class.
Although, on the second frame of selection. I feel as though my answer were mixed. on some things in both frame were related to my personality.
I think that it depend on your age also. Young adults,dont have experiece of life.
and an older person, will think maturalily, cause they have more experience in life.
Interesting to say the least.
I’ve been on my own since the age of 14.
So whether extremely structured or free range,Im comfortable
I have a better understanding of why Alzheimer exists within my family but still don’t understand why only our women? I’ve done this research for classwork. On my own time, I think researching more on the subject of Alzheimer’s brain function.
Was I born with them or did I learn them?
What are the advantages and disadvantages of these four letters combined? Over the years will my letters change ? This is exciting information to learn and take the time find out. I think this is going to help me in a lot of different areas of my life, just having the understanding of my personality types and how to use them all together as a asset in my life.
Mine are I n
It was a bit difficult choosing on almost all questions; the situation at hand determines how I react. I just had a pop up saying my post is a duplicate!!
My words/thoughts/ideas are my own.
I’m completely authentic..
It was a bit difficult choosing on almost all questions; the situation at hand determines how I react
#improvements
Honestly, I were mixed with all those.I wish they could have had an answer,different from those ones,more than likely I would have choose both.
I hear you , mine was I n .
Casey thus is the learning curve for most of of us.
its right on the money with my personality.
letters E,S,F,P
I-N-F-J. what do it mean?
My opinion as far as the “Myers Briggs Personality Test” I do not believe that any one person fall into such neat categories. I felt that I could go both ways in each of the categories. I can be introverted at times, I can also be an extravert. I believe that there were times I was more of one than another. Just like maturing from a child into an adult you change. Some of these personalities were me and have changed sides with age.
I am not seeing many others with this particular combination of traits. I always knew I was a bit different. Unique and just fine with it! We all have our individual ways of navigating through life. I think it is facinating. I enjoyed learning more about my own personality…
Helps me understand and find coping skills that work.
I never had put much thought into my personality before.
I agree wholeheartedly with this assessment of myself
I do have to iterate that this test does not state who I am as a person. I do multiple things from both categories. but I had to choose one. It depends on what type of situations I go through depending on which technique I use. so this test means nothing to me in my eyes. or does it tell me what section I mainly use.
I found the lesson to be very interesting. I remember taking this test years ago…unfortunately I do not remember what my rating was at that time. I would love to take the actual test again.
for these choices. In reality,I do not fall into the standardized categories given as choices.
I learned a bit about myself