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Unflatter
Most personality tests flatter you.
Fifty statements, about six minutes. You get your position on the five traits personality research actually agrees on — as percentiles against other adults, each one written up with what it gives you and what it costs you.
- About 6 minutes
- No sign-up, no email
- Full written result, free
Sample result
Curious, blunt and organised
79
Open
74
Cons
30
Extra
21
Agree
53
Emot
What it measures
Five dimensions, measured one at a time
Sixty years of factor analysis keeps landing on the same five. Everything else — types, colours, animals, four-letter codes — is a simplification of these, usually one that throws away the middle of each scale.
A driven person with a calm baseline and a driven person with a reactive one live completely different lives.
That is why the deep report is built on combinations rather than on five scores read in isolation.
- 01
Openness
How drawn are you to novelty, ideas and imagination?
Curiosity about ideas, art and unfamiliar experiences, and the ease with which you think in abstractions.
Practical & concreteCurious & inventive - 02
Conscientiousness
How much structure do you bring to what you do?
Organisation, follow-through and the willingness to trade impulse for a plan.
Flexible & spontaneousOrganised & driven - 03
Extraversion
Where does your energy come from?
Sociability, assertiveness and how much stimulation from other people you seek out.
Reserved & inwardOutgoing & expressive - 04
Agreeableness
How do you weigh other people's needs against your own?
Warmth, trust and the instinct to cooperate rather than compete.
Direct & scepticalWarm & cooperative - 05
Emotional volatility
How strongly do difficult emotions register for you?
Sensitivity to stress and how quickly worry, irritation or low mood arrive and fade.
Calm & evenSensitive & reactive
The difference
Numbers you can argue with, not a label
Type tests are fun and they are sticky, which is why everyone has heard of them. They are also built to be agreeable. This is the trade you are making by taking a dimensional test instead.
A four-letter type test
- Sorts you into one of a handful of boxes and gives the box a name.
- Forces a side on every dimension, including the ones where you are in the middle.
- Often hands people a different label when they retake it a few weeks later.
- Describes you in terms almost anyone would accept as accurate.
Unflatter
- Gives five continuous scores and says where you sit among other adults.
- Leaves a middling score middling, and says so in as many words.
- Uses the instrument version that turns up in published research, not a lookalike.
- Names the cost of each score, including the scores people like having.
What you will not get here: a claim that you are rare, a compliment dressed as a finding, or a number that says one kind of person is better than another. Most people score near the middle on most traits, and the report says so when you do.
How it works
Six minutes, then something to read
Answer fifty statements
One at a time, on a five-point scale, with the number keys if you like speed. Half the items are reverse-keyed, so agreeing with everything produces an honest profile rather than a flattering one.
Get scored against norms
Ten items per trait become a raw score, then a percentile against published community norms. The maths happens in your browser — your answers never reach a server, because there is no server to reach.
Read what it costs you
Every trait gets a written interpretation: what the score buys you and what it charges you. That part is free and complete. The deep report picks up where single scores stop being enough.
Pricing
The test is free. The long read is not.
One payment, no subscription, no account, and nothing is held back from the free result to make the paid one look better. If the free version answers your question, that is a perfectly good outcome.
The test
Free
Everything needed to understand your five scores.
- All five percentiles, drawn on the distribution they came from
- How much weight each score can bear, score by score
- A written interpretation of every trait — strengths and costs
- One trait interaction from the deep report
- A permanent link you can revisit, share or ignore
- Retakes whenever you like — nothing is stored either way
Deep Report
€19EUR · once
The parts that depend on your whole profile at once.
- Every trait at work, in relationships and under sustained pressure
- All the trait interactions your combination triggers, not a generic few
- The blind spot for each score — the part people argue with
- How you are most reliably misread, and the sentence that fixes it
- Environments that suit you and ones that quietly drain you
- A working manual you can hand to a manager or a partner
- Five questions worth sitting with, and a four-week plan
You see your free result before deciding. See a sample Deep Report.
What the report is not: a diagnosis, a career verdict, or something to run on other people. It describes tendencies measured on one afternoon, in your own words.
Questions
Before you start
Six minutes for a more accurate picture of yourself
No sign-up, no email, no personality type. Just where you actually sit, and what that has been costing you.
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