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Personality Tests
Typologies, moral dilemmas, purity scores and which-character quizzes. Somewhere between genuine psychometrics and a magazine back page, and both ends are entertaining.
17 sites
The Myers-Briggs-flavoured test everybody has taken, with a four-letter verdict and profile pages that are unnervingly specific.
- 10 min
Seventy statements, four political axes and an ideology label at the end. The open-source template for a hundred imitators.
- 10 min
Twenty-eight escalating trolley dilemmas that end somewhere very silly, each showing the percentage of people who agreed with you.
- 10 min
The personality model psychologists actually use, in a clean 120-question version with a proper breakdown of every facet.
- 10 min
Several hundred psychological tests, from serious personality inventories to deeply unserious ones, all free and all instant.
- 10 min
MIT's trolley problem for driverless cars: decide who the car kills, thirteen times over, then read your own bias summarised back.
- 10 min
Free, ad-free versions of the actual academic instruments, with the collected raw data published for anyone who wants to poke at it.
- 10 min
- Desktop
A crowd-voted encyclopaedia arguing over the MBTI and enneagram type of every fictional character and public figure in existence.
Personality Lab
AltFProper trait questionnaires with the scoring shown, rather than a quiz that decides you are a golden retriever.
- 10 min
Sixteen questions sort you into one of Pew's nine American political groups, with a decade of real survey data behind every one.
Interactive tests designed to find the contradictions in your own stated beliefs, the classic being Battleground God.
- 10 min
- Desktop
Harvard's implicit association tests, measuring the biases you would never report about yourself. Uncomfortable, rigorous and free.
- 10 min
- Desktop
A hundred yes-or-no questions about things you may have done, counted downward from 100. A student rite of passage since the 1980s.
- 2 min
- Not at work
A personality test that assigns you one of forty-odd animals, with write-ups considerably sharper than the premise deserves.
Sixty-odd propositions place you on economic and social axes, then show you exactly where Thatcher and Gandhi ended up.
- 10 min
Where teenagers make the quizzes: which sad indie song are you, which Greek deity would pity you. Anyone can build one in minutes.
The moral foundations questionnaires run by the psychologists who published them, plotting you against the wider research sample.
- 10 min
- Desktop
How we picked these
Every entry in Detour is hand-sorted rather than scraped: filed under one category, given one to three moods, and placed in a time band for how quickly it pays off. The practical facts — cost, sign-up, sound, device and whether it is safe at a desk — are recorded per site and shown on every card, so you can rule things out before you click.
Personality Tests: questions
How many sites are in Personality Tests?
17 sites, each hand-sorted by category, mood and how long it takes to pay off. 1 of them is an AltF original that run right here.
Which of these sites are free with no sign-up?
16 of the 17 are free and need no account. None of them are paid.
Do these sites work on a phone, and are they safe for work?
13 of 17 work on a phone; the rest are desktop only. 16 are safe for work and 17 work with the sound off.