There’s a fun little tool we wanted you to know about heroically named “The Typealyzer.” Essentially, the Typealyzer allows you to enter a web page’s URL address and determine (or approximate) the personality type of the writer. It does so by analyzing things like word use, writing style, and other factors. Surprisingly, I entered four of my type profiles (INTJ, INFJ, INTP, INFP) and it correctly typed me as an INTP on all of them (good to know I’m at least somewhat consistent in my writing)! It did, however, mistype both of our INFJ contributors on this site as INTJs. So go ahead and give The Typealzyer a try and see what you think.
If you don’t have a web page and would like to Typealzye some of your writing, you can still do so, but it will require a bit more effort, as you will need to separately paste it into an analyzer for each of the four dichotomies:
E-I Typealyzer (the author titles this “Attitude”)
S-N Typealyzer (the author titles this the “Perceiving Function”)
T-F Typealyzer (the author titles this the “Judging Function”)
J-P Typealyzer (the author titles this “Lifestyle”)
Here’s a similar tool for gender:
John Lance Combs says
I got a very varied answer, everything from ISFP to INTJ to ESTJ.
John Lance Combs says
Well, when I started adding my fiction, I consistently got ISFP and ESFP.
TMN says
I got an ENFP, but I’m actually an ENTP. It read my blog pretty well, though, I think — I’ve been pretty focused on emotional subjects and communicating with friends since I started it, so in effect, I’ve been using Fe a lot more than Ti.
Ly Kelly says
I got ISFP, ISFJ, then ISFP again. And when I added fiction I got ESFP. At least it’s convinced I’m a feeler. And I have picked up on the strange way I write sensual details for an intuitive, so Se and Si could be concluded.
Ly Kelly says
I have a feeling one thing about it is the way Si is. When the writing is anything like a blog or a journal, and it’s recording events or feelings, of course it comes off Si. This time, with different writing (things particularly meant to record) I came off ESFJ. ;) At least it’s consistent…
James says
Fascinating. I tried with a few of my posts. (INTP by the way)
1) My responses to a “What’s my Enneagram Type?” questionnaire: ISFP
2) My response to another forum member who typed me as a 5: ISFJ
3) My final decision based on what others have said, since I thought they deserve some final response from me: INTP
4) My response to a “What’s my personality type?” questionnaire (you are given a scenario, and you are asked to respond how you would react): INTP.
Interestingly, in all cases my introversion score was never below 85% (conversely, my extraversion score was never above 15%), with my introversion score peaking at 94% on the fourth post.
AK says
Found this interesting. When it checked a journal entry that I was fleshing out ideas and brainstorming in, it was an accurate INFJ.
When I checked individual scenes from separate character point of views in fiction I’m working on, I got varied results. It flip flopped between E and I, but was a consistent SFP. The F stayed at 70-100% and the P hung out at 60-70%. At first I wondered if I was writing the characters as their type, then I started wondering if the inclusion of having to create settings and describe sensory type things was skewing it. If that is the case then I’d like to figure out how to write fiction as my type….
I even tested this entry and it came off ESFJ.
Hmm, maybe I’m just not comfortable writing as myself when I know others will read it!
Mostub says
I am INTJ and ESFP.