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Big Five Test, 50 IPIP items: your five scores
50 questions to place your personality on the five factors of the Big Five model
This test measures the five major personality factors: openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, and emotional stability. You don't get a single label, you get five scores that are read together. It's the model with the broadest consensus in psychology, and the only one whose items are in the public domain.
Adapted from the 50 items of the IPIP Big-Five Factor Markers (Goldberg, 1992), public domain
Content updated in August 2026
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About this test
The Big Five model, also known as OCEAN, is the result of several decades of independent research that all converged on the same structure: personality can be well described by five broad dimensions. It isn't a typology that sorts people into boxes, it's a continuous measurement system where everyone falls somewhere on each of the five axes.
The questions in this test are adapted from the 50 items of the IPIP Big-Five Factor Markers, published by Lewis Goldberg in 1992 and placed in the public domain by the International Personality Item Pool. We've rewritten the wording ourselves, in our own house style, rather than reusing the original phrasing verbatim. This adaptation has therefore not undergone psychometric validation, and we'd rather say so than let you assume otherwise.
One vocabulary detail worth knowing: the fifth factor is often called neuroticism in the scientific literature. We call it emotional stability, which is its positive pole and the term the IPIP itself uses. It's exactly the same measure, read in the other direction.
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This test is offered for discovery purposes. It adapts public-domain items from the IPIP, but this version has not undergone independent psychometric validation, and its result is neither a diagnosis nor professional advice. A Big Five profile is read across its five scores, never on the dominant factor alone.
Frequently Asked Questions
- No, and that matters. The Big Five isn't a typology: your profile is the sum of your five scores, not just the highest one. We highlight your most pronounced factor because you need an entry point somewhere, but the results page shows all five bars, and it's their combination that describes you.
- It's the same factor, named by its positive pole. The IPIP itself uses the term emotional stability in its own scoring key. A high score means that setbacks pass through you without sweeping you away; a low score corresponds to what the literature calls neuroticism.
- Yes, entirely. The 50 questions, the five scores, and the detailed profile pages are all accessible without creating an account, without an email address, and without payment. You can create an account if you want to keep your history and build your ADN profile across several tests, but it's never required to see your result.