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Ten-Item Personality Inventory (TIPI)

Ten items, one minute: a rough outline of where you sit on the Big Five.

10 items · About 1 min

How to answerHere are a number of personality traits that may or may not apply to you. Please indicate the extent to which you agree or disagree with that statement. You should rate the extent to which the pair of traits applies to you, even if one characteristic applies more strongly than the other. I see myself as:

  1. Extraverted, enthusiastic.
  2. Critical, quarrelsome.
  3. Dependable, self-disciplined.
  4. Anxious, easily upset.
  5. Open to new experiences, complex.
  6. Reserved, quiet.
  7. Sympathetic, warm.
  8. Disorganized, careless.
  9. Calm, emotionally stable.
  10. Conventional, uncreative.
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About this scale

The TIPI sketches the five Big Five traits with ten pairs of adjectives. It is the most widely used ultra-short version in research and takes about a minute. With only two items per trait, the result is a rough outline rather than a precise measurement; for a fuller picture, take the site's longer Big Five test.

SourceGosling, S. D., Rentfrow, P. J., & Swann, W. B., Jr. (2003). A very brief measure of the Big-Five personality domains. Journal of Research in Personality, 37(6), 504–528. The author's page states: “WANT TO USE THE TIPI? GO AHEAD. ANYONE CAN USE IT FOR ANY PURPOSE. NO NEED TO ASK ME FOR PERMISSION.”