Myers Briggs Type Indicator Online

How the MBTI works

When you take the official MBTI online, you'll answer questions about your unique style of getting energized, making decisions, organizing your life, and learning about the world around you. Your responses show your preferences on four facets of personality:

• Extraverted or Introverted? Do you get your energy from other people, or from your own internal world?
• Sensing or Intuitive? Do you focus on the present and what you can see, or the future and what you can imagine?
• Thinking or Feeling? Do you make decisions based on logic, or on values and people?
• Judging or Perceiving? Do you prefer things structured and organized, or flexible and spontaneous?

Put together, these four personality facets create a four-letter personality type, such as ENFP or ISTJ. Discovering your personality type can help you to explore and understand yourself as an individual.

Who should take the MBTI

The Myers Briggs Type Indicator assessment may be taken by anyone age 14 and up. People take the MBTI for many reasons: to plan for a satisfying career, to improve their relationships, to understand their personal strengths and weaknesses, or just to explore an interest in psychology.

Because your Myers-Briggs personality type describes how you approach every area of your life, it can help you improve yourself at work, at home, and in relationships.

Understanding who you are makes you more prepared to make choices that will make the most of your strengths.

Taking the Myers-Briggs assessment online

Our online format makes the MBTI easy and convenient to take. Get started by adding the assessment to your cart with the button to your right. Once you've completed your purchase, you can access the Myers-Briggs assessment right away. The inventory takes about 30 minutes to complete.

We create your detailed test report (see a PDF sample) and send it to you within 12 hours. You'll also receive a personalized interpretation from one of our expert consultants.

Questions & Answers

Q. Can the MBTI help me choose the right career?

Absolutely! The Myers-Briggs assessment is an excellent career planning tool because it helps you to understand your innate strengths, and shows you which careers will be satisfying and motivating to you over the long term.

If you are looking to use the MBTI for career planning, we would recommend you order our special report for this purpose. The MBTI for Career Planning shows you the top careers for your type, strengths and challenges at work, and personalized tips for the job search.

Q. Can I purchase the MBTI as a gift?

Of course! Our checkout system is set up to make this very easy to do. Simply enter your information for billing where indicated. Then, our system will ask for the name and email address of the person taking the test. Simply fill in the information for your gift recipient and they will receive personalized instructions to complete the assessment.

Q. Why should I pay for the official MBTI® instead of taking a free test online?

Taking a free personality type quiz can be a fun and interesting exercise, but it's not recommended if you really need accurate information about your type. The most popular free quizzes online were developed by untrained hobbyists, not professional psychologists. Generally, you cannot rely on free "Myers Briggs" tests to correctly identify your personality type.

In contrast, the official Myers-Briggs Type Indicator assessment has been rigorously analyzed by professional psychologists. What's more, the real MBTI is always provided with a personalized, professional interpretation session. This allows you to verify your type with an expert, and apply your new knowledge to your work and life.