Personality statistics

How common is your personality type?

Seeing how many people share your type, and where most people land on each trait, helps you tell what is typical about you from what is unusual. Among 852,898 people who answered the same 50 questions you answer on Archetype, the most common type is The Caretaker, at 12.6% (about 1 in 8). The least common is The Explorer, at 7.6% (about 1 in 13).
852,898
people who took the same 50-question test you take here
145,388
people whose detailed 300-question answers shaped the ten types
7.6–12.6%
of people in each type. None is rare, and none takes over

How common is each archetype?

Each bar is the share of the 852,898 people whose answers sat closest to that archetype. They were scored exactly the way you are, and each set of answers counts once, so the ten shares add up to 100%.
For 85.4% of these people, one archetype fit clearly best: it was more than 5% closer than the runner-up.

Where most people land on each trait

Every question is answered from 1 (strongly disagree) to 5 (strongly agree), and each trait score is the average of its ten answers. So every trait runs from 1 to 5. This is how 852,898 people spread out.
Openness
Openness to Experience
Grounded
Imaginative
Average 3.90. Half of people score 3.5 to 4.4, and 8 in 10 score 3.1 to 4.7.
Discipline
Conscientiousness
Flexible
Organized
Average 3.37. Half of people score 2.9 to 3.9, and 8 in 10 score 2.4 to 4.3.
Social Energy
Extraversion
Reserved
Outgoing
Average 2.96. Half of people score 2.3 to 3.6, and 8 in 10 score 1.7 to 4.2.
Compassion
Agreeableness
Direct
Warm
Average 3.78. Half of people score 3.3 to 4.3, and 8 in 10 score 2.8 to 4.7.
Emotional Style
Neuroticism
Calm
Sensitive
Average 3.06. Half of people score 2.4 to 3.7, and 8 in 10 score 1.9 to 4.2.
People score highest on Openness to Experience (average 3.90) and lowest on Extraversion (average 2.96).
Extraversion is where people differ most: its scores are the most spread out of the five. Openness to Experience is where they differ least.
Most people describe themselves as warm and kind, so Agreeableness scores bunch up toward the top of the scale. That means an exactly average score is higher than only about 44% of people, not half. It is why your Archetype result uses real percentiles instead of assuming a perfect bell curve.

Where these numbers come from

The ten archetypes come from the Johnson IPIP-NEO-300 data: 145,388 people who each answered 300 Big Five questions. Every other number on this page comes from a second, separate sample, the Open Psychometrics IPIP-50 data, which uses the same 50 questions as our test.
That sample started with 1,015,341 sets of answers. We kept the 852,898 that were complete and where people spent a believable amount of time on each question.
Keep in mind who these people are: volunteers who chose to take a free personality test online. The numbers describe them, not everyone on earth. And every score is a self-report, so it shows how people see themselves.
Johnson IPIP-NEO-300 data (Open Science Framework) ↗Open Psychometrics raw data ↗How the model was built →
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Questions people ask first

What is the most common personality type?
On Archetype it is The Caretaker: 12.6% of 852,898 people, about 1 in 8. The Diplomat is close behind at 12.0%.
What is the rarest personality type?
The Explorer, at 7.6%, about 1 in 13. The Loyalist is almost as uncommon at 7.7%. Still, no archetype is truly rare: the gap between the most and least common is small.
What is an average Big Five score?
On the 1 to 5 scale, the averages are: Openness to Experience 3.90; Conscientiousness 3.37; Extraversion 2.96; Agreeableness 3.78; Neuroticism 3.06. Your Archetype result shows where you land against all of these people, trait by trait.
See where you land
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