About the test
Quick personality test (Mini-IPIP6)
The quick personality test gives you a first look at six broad traits in a few minutes: the Big Five plus honesty-humility. It uses the Mini-IPIP6, a short public-domain questionnaire developed and studied in New Zealand. For facets and comparisons with other people, take the full Big Five test afterwards.
Questionnaire / instrument: Mini-IPIP6
The test at a glance
- Price
- Free, including your results
- Registration
- No account required
- Length
- 24 statements
- Time
- About 3 minutes
- Format
- Self-report · five response options
- Your report
- Six broad traits
The six traits
Each trait is measured with four statements. These are the names used in your report:
Openness
Imagination and interest in ideas, as opposed to a preference for the concrete and practical.
Conscientiousness
Being orderly, organised and dutiful, as opposed to spontaneous and flexible.
Extraversion
Being sociable, talkative and energised by other people, as opposed to quiet and reserved.
Agreeableness
Warmth, care and interest in other people's feelings.
Neuroticism
How easily you worry, have mood swings and feel stressed. A high score is not a diagnosis.
Honesty-humility
Modesty and fairness, and how little you are driven by status, luxury or wealth. This is the sixth trait that the HEXACO model adds to the Big Five.
What your results show
Your result is calculated as soon as you have answered. You can preview an example result before taking the test.
- A score from 0 to 100 for each of the six traits, with a low, medium or high label.
- A short description of what your level means for each trait.
- For honesty-humility, a note on how low scores relate to the dark side of personality.
- A suggestion to take the full Big Five test if you want facets and comparisons with other people.
What does it measure?
A brief overview of six broad personality traits: the Big Five plus honesty–humility. It offers a quick introduction to personality differences without a detailed facet profile.
Where does it come from?
Mini-IPIP6 was developed by Chris G. Sibley and colleagues, with a validation study published in 2011. It extends a short IPIP measure to include a sixth trait.
How is the result calculated?
Four items contribute to each of the six traits. Reverse-keyed answers are adjusted and averaged by trait. Scores are shown from 0 to 100 on the answer scale, with an average below 2.5 labelled low and above 3.5 high. They describe your position on the answer scale rather than a population percentile.
What can the result tell you?
Four questions per trait offer less detail than a longer inventory. The six-trait structure is not interchangeable with the full IPIP-HEXACO questionnaire, and the test does not measure intelligence or diagnose a condition.
Languages and adaptations
Some item translations are reused from our existing IPIP banks; other wording was translated for this site with AI assistance. Translation does not by itself establish that a scale has the same measurement properties in another language.
Frequently asked questions
Is the quick test free, including the results?
Yes. You can answer the statements and see your six scores without paying or creating an account.
How accurate can a test with 24 questions be?
Short scales trade precision for speed. The authors found that Mini-IPIP6 scores were fairly stable over a year, with test–retest correlations between .62 and .75 across the six traits. That is good enough for a quick overview, but a single answer can shift a score, so do not read much into small differences.
How is it different from the full Big Five test?
The full Big Five test has 120 statements, measures 30 facets as well as the five traits and compares your scores with a large online sample. The quick test has four statements per trait, shows only broad scores on the answer scale and adds honesty-humility. Several of the quick test's statements also appear in the full test.
Is this the same as the HEXACO test?
No. The quick test keeps the five Big Five traits and adds honesty-humility as a sixth. The HEXACO test uses 240 statements, defines emotionality and agreeableness differently from neuroticism and agreeableness in the Big Five, and shows 24 facets. The Big Five Aspects test is another option if you want each Big Five trait split into two parts.
Who am I compared with?
No one. The score shows where your average answer lies on the response scale, from 0 for all lowest answers to 100 for all highest. It is not a percentile, so 60 does not mean that you score higher than 60 percent of people.
How should I answer?
Choose how well each statement describes how you usually are now, not how you would like to be. There are no right or wrong answers. Because there are so few statements, it helps to answer each one carefully.
License and reuse
Public domainIPIP places its items and scales in the public domain. They may be used, copied, adapted and translated for commercial and non-commercial purposes without a fee or separate permission.
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Sources and further reading
Sibley, C. G., Luyten, N., Purnomo, M., et al. (2011). The Mini-IPIP6: Validation and extension of a short measure of the Big-Six factors of personality in New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Psychology, 40, 142-159.