Are You an Introvert? A Test for Introverted Personality Traits
How Do You Know If You're an Introvert? Take the Test!
This test for introverted personality traits not only reveals if you’re an introvert, it describes the top signs of introversion – some of which will surprise you. This personality test is from The Introvert Advantage by Marti Olsen Laney.
For instance, did you know that introverts don’t think of casual acquaintances as friends? And, introverts take a long time to sort out information…and they dread returning phone calls (that’s me!).
“Introverts enjoy time alone, consider only deep relationships as friends, and feel drained after outside activities, even if they were fun” says Marti Olsen Laney, author of The Introvert & Extrovert in Love: Making It Work When Opposites Attract.
Laney also says these famous female actresses are introverts: Gwyneth Paltrow, Helen Hunt, Meg Ryan, Meryl Streep, Diane Keaton, Grace Kelly, Julia Robert, Michelle Pfeiffer, Ingrid Bergman, Candice Bergen, and Glenn Close. Wow! We’re all in good company, then 
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A Test for Introverted Personality Traits
Answer true or false to the following questions about introversion and extroversion:
1. I like to have long, uninterrupted periods to work on projects, rather than small chunks.
2. I sometimes rehearse things before speaking, occasionally writing notes to myself.
3. I like to listen more than talk.
4. People sometimes think I’m quiet, mysterious, aloof or calm.
5. I usually need to think before I respond or speak.
6. I like to share special occasions with just one or two people, rather than have a big celebration.
7. I tend to notice details many people don’t see.
8. If two people have just had an argument, I feel the tension in the air.
9. If I say I’ll do something, I almost always do it.
10. I feel anxious if I have a deadline or pressure.
11. I can zone out if too much is going on.
12. I like to watch an activity for awhile before joining in.
13. I form lasting relationships.
14. I don’t like to interrupt others; I don’t like to be interrupted.
15. When I take in lots of information, it takes me awhile to sort it out.
16. I don’t like overstimulating environments.
17. I sometimes have strong reactions to smells, tastes, foods, weather, and noise.
18. I am creative and/or imaginative.
19. I feel drained after social situations, even when I enjoy myself.
20. I prefer to be introduced rather than having to introduce others.
21. I often feel uncomfortable in new surroundings.
22. I can become grouchy if I’m around people or activities for too long.
23. I often dread returning phone calls.
24. I like people to come to my home, but I don’t like them to stay a long time.
25. I find my mind sometimes goes blank when I meet people or when I am asked to speak unexpectedly.
26. I talk slowly or have gaps in my words, especially if I’m tired or if I’m trying to think and speak at once.
27. I don’t think of acquaintances as close friends.
28. I feel as if I can’t show other people my ideas until they’re fully formulated.
29. Other people may surprise me by thinking I’m smarter than I am.
Are you an introvert? Finding the answers to this personality test is easy
Simply add up your “true” responses. The more “trues” you have, the more introverted personality traits or introversion signs you possess…
Scoring:
20-29 “true” responses means you’re a true introvert (like me!). “Only deep relationships measure up as friendships and you use them to relax. You need to mentally rest throughout the day, even after enjoyable activities. Because you will draw a blank under pressure, prepare for meetings, talks, and even parties beforehand. Accept your nature and learn to politely fend off energy-draining people.”
10-19 “true” responses means you’re both introverted and extroverted. “You sometimes feel torn between the desire to dance in the streets and walk alone on the beach. Notice this, so you can keep your energy consistent. You judge yourself through your thoughts and feelings, and through others, leaving you with a broad view that is sometimes difficult to straddle.”
1-9 “true” responses means you’re an extrovert. “You relish variety, have lots of ‘close, personal’ friends and will chat with complete strangers. Your stimulation is all external, so you talk, think, and act quickly. As you reach midlife, however, you may need to take a break from the high life to reflect, even though it goes against your nature.” To learn more about extroverts, read 5 Personality Traits of Extroverted People.
Did this test for introverted personality traits work for you? I welcome your comments below.
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I am so an intravert scoring yes to all. I knew I was different to most but have been learning to be comfortable with who I am. A few people try to tell me I had a problem but I was kind of sure I didn’t and this confirms it. Thank you so much. I love myself a little more today because of this. TA!!! Never liked team sports. prefer to run, swim, walk on my own. Love gardening. Social events exhaust me and I so need to be alone after. Just love to be on my own at work (accountant) quietly working in my closed off office with little interuption. Never like to give advise unless I have really done my homework and usually tell people I will get back to them. Love using email so that I don’t have to talk and can put all my words in order.
all this time i am so confused if i’m of both worlds. I score 27 of 29, and i personally think that i am an introvert. i took a personality test and i am 86% introvert..thank u for this, now i feel special..i hav an extrovert best friend, and sometimes she tend to keep quiet when she thinks that the world can’t accept her opinions, and all i could do was gave her a topic and talk and talk even though she doesn’t want to listen.i often lock myself out of the world, share my enthusiasm with only 3 persons, i lov writing than speaking, and decline in an extemporaneous speech..Oh God..my parents are disapointed..they call me a coward..i spend my time doing weird things,like tallying, filling all boxes in a graphing paper..and count my steps…syllabicating fromm 100 to one..it’s awkward..i think i’m crazy..Is this being a part of introverts too..or i am just freaking mental:)?
P.S. I love music..and do jobs from 12 a.m. at dawn..
This test is amazing! It hit the nail right on the head. My score was 28 I agree with all of the other comments left by other people on this site,I find people coming over to my home and staying for long periods of time intrusive and very draining. I have been with my Wife for 18 years and have discussed with her how I need my space, time to think and why I love to read and now I know why. She always tells me that I look into things to deeply and the details that I notice are my imagination. Now I know that I need to show her this test and why (her being an extrovert) she doesnt understand. Thank you so very much!
I am a pure introvert with 28 true answer. I haven’t any problem with this introverted nature but i think other people have a lot of problems by my introverted nature. Sorry people i can’t do anything for this because nature can’t be changed.
I scored 28 / 29, I haven’t really been sure of my own personality until I found out about the idea of introverts in the world around me… by finding this blog and researching on the internet. I’ve always been calm, friendly, but somewhat anti-social, however I can be very talkative and comfortable with the people I trust (close friends, family), but not in big crowds, because that really makes me uncomfortable. I feel that if I am well prepared for a task, I can do my very best and exceed my expectations of myself. I’ve kept thoughts to myself, and conceptualize my own thoughts of the world around me. I feel a constant pressure to fit in with the people I interact daily, and I am very anxious about deadlines and expectations of society. I could never be involved in a fight or anything like that, and hate it when I am ever put on the spot to answer a question in class or complete a task without time to prepare or to respond efficiently… hope other people out there can relate.
best of both worlds
I’ve scored 25 and i thought i’m the only one who’s introverted in this world. Thank God! I’m not alone! Right now, i’m struggling to be an extrovert like being true to myself just like when i get mad to that person, i confront him in a good way so that there will be no worries anymore about being anxious while looking at him. If you grow up in high school full of shyness, i think the key is FORGETTING THE PAST.. because WHY WOULD YOU BE SHY IF YOU DONE NOTHING WRONG?… weLl .. GOOD LUCK TO EVERYONE!
I’m an Introvert, have been for as long as I can remember and I positively embrace it now. Seems like a few of you guys are a little embarrassed or unhappy about your introverted status, but I promise you’ll grow to love it too. Theres nothing wrong with being different and people will like you and love you for it because we have unique personalities just like the extro’s but in my opinion better all round ( i dont consider being more caring, thoughtful or creative as a bad trait even if i am a bit quieter than some others ) you just need to understand it doesn’t make you less of a person if you don’t want to party all the time or talk for hours about nothing with people you’d rather not talk to at this present moment and remember its nothing personal its just how we prefer it. It’s not arrogance or disdain it’s just how it should be
When you understand yourself people will understand you and you’ll love it too.
I’m an introvert! I got a 22 out of 29. I always kind of felt like one… I went to a new school this year and I’m really shy and I don’t like talking to people really. It’s great to know that other people feel the same discomfort I do when they’re forced to socialize. Thanks so much for the confirmation that I’m an introvert.
This test really did help me a lot I got 28 out of 1 so I am really a introvert
Everything in this quiz was true, except that I’d rather people not come to my house as I feel my home is a very personal space, only open to my family. Also, I don’t like being introduced. I prefer to introduce and be a sort of invisible so I can observe and listen and not engage in unnecessary talk.
I have been diagnosed with depression but had stopped my medication because it didn’t seem to be helping. By experience, I feel I am different, abnormal, and often wish I could be like others. But try as I might, I haven’t been able to. I cannot not notice things, or be anything extroverts are.
I also have all the qualities of Dabrowski’s overexcitabilities, but knowledge of what I am and have does not change my feeling of inadequacy. Everyone around me, at work, school and even among friends and family, have a strange notion that I am highly intelligent and am capable of achieving great things, but I don’t feel that way, and their expectations suffocate me.
Nevertheless, thank you for this series of questions. It is interesting and gives me food for thought. I hope it helps many others before they are so completely convinced like myself that the difference is intolerable.
i scored 20 and would strongly agree with some questions but completly disagree with others, I do prefere my own company and like being alone although people do seem to like being around me, i do get asked alot to join people socially but mostly decline cos i think most people are full of sh!t and annoying. At work i feel more comfortable with intelligent people but often find these people asking me for help or advise when i feel like they should know more than me. And i find conversations with people very difficult, and when a conversation has finished i think i must sound thick and a should of said this or that.I im the least self consiouse person on the planet and dont realy care about most peoples opinions. I never realy understood why i am different to other people untill i read this, now i know im an introvert and proud of it.
i scored 24 out of 29 and im only 14….i never really payed attention to my personality of being introverted. my mom told me the other night i was very introverted so i decided to look it up and it TOTALLY describes me…im creative,im bery self conscious about my self even though i get told im beautiful everysingle day. i i dnt like to walk in a room full of people and i used to take out a hour pr two in my day to jus sit and think alone.i have only 1 best friend.all me relationships, i feel that it gets too overwhelming. i came from a family full of extroverts and i thought i was too but my grandmother is also a introvert and i believe thats why we have such a good connection. i love for people to come over my house and stay as long as they like and i also notice alot of things that goes pn that nt many ppl notice in their life.i am antisocial. its nt that i cant make new friends, i jus choose not to..i can sit in a room full pf teens and zone out unless im around my friends…i like to party bt i get tired afterwards.people also think im the quiet goody goody girl when i can actually get crazy,i am very shy nomatter who im around..well i thought i should finally get that pff my chest
I scored 27 and
I m happy in my own world
I am not alone. I am really an introvert.
I scored a 27. It’s good to know that Im not “weird”. I always thought that these personality traits meant i was “weird” but they are just traits. And the sooner I can accept it & learn more about it, the better for me.
I scored 29…
I always knew that I was a bit introverted but I didn’t think I was that introverted.
I am in the middle zone, most yes in the top ten questions. I don’t agree though that the quiz is accurate, because a ‘yes’ to a lot of questions signifies how clever and sharp you are. And if being that puts in the introvert zone, then I am glad to be one. I spend a lot of time with myself when I see my surroundings are not what Id rather expect. But then , I am the happiest being the center of attention and stealing the show when I feel this is my time, and am on to capture what is righteously mine.
for me all the answers are true….
is this normal?
because I’m always lonely and I feel like I can even vanish in plain sight in a large group of people………
After taking the quiz and reading almost everyones response I too am very relieved that I am not alone and not weird as most commented cause thats how I feel and ask myself daily in my mind. Just yesterday I told I dad I don’t know why, but I have to sleep for 10 hours daily then I feel ready for the day and I don’t know why, that so strange. My dad said I am not active enough then I told him, but its not that even when I was at University I had a very busy schedule and I walked to and from campus 30 min everyday and I still need to sleep an extra 2 hours in the afternoon after my 8 hours of sleep. I broke up with my boyfriend of 4 years just like that and didnt understand why I just knew I had to and that I needed time to find myself he didnt even do nothing. This was the case for all my other boyfriends, but this i\one I realy and I went to see a psychologist and psychiatrist and realised that I have social phobia dot me on meds and did some behaviour therapy, I was always unsure if I should class myself as a introvert or extrovert as I am always the one that keeps a party life and I love to dance, but I dont like to go to parties consecutively like if I went last night I would not be able to go tomorrow or next week again then I would wait a long time never looks at it that I need to recharge socially. I get drained very quickly even with my own family. I like to hang out with myself sometimes I think to myself that I am so weird for going out alone, my friend always has someone with her and she almost always has friend over at her place then thay stay long now I actually understand that she is extroverted. I am moved by humanity and I describe myself as a deeply spiritual person in the sense that I sometimes feels as if I am in a higher demension/ plane than others around me. I dont get much friend over at my house as I am always akward I taught is was my phobia, but when my best frine come over I don’t like it when she stays long I taught I was abad frined for thinking and wanting this. And she on the other hand probably sense it as she always go home early or she will just stay a while and I taught on the other hand that she was rude as when I am at her place I always stayed till midnite as she wanted me to. I am so greatful that I took this test I am definately going to buy myself that book how to thrive in an introvert world. And I’m not going to say I have social phobia- I’m just an introvert and its not a weakness its just a different personallty. I would lik eto become a psychologist applied for my honours next year. Asa everybody here is introverted is this career normal for introverted people? I wonder how a social gathering with just introverted personallity types will go
Oh and I scored 26 on the test
This morning has been a revelation, as I’ve discovered I’m an introvert. I’ve never understood this part of myself and just thought I was weird.
I’ve broken up relationships because I’ve never understood why I found them so overwhelming, although enjoyable in many ways.
Ultimately though, I couldn’t cope with the lack of ‘space’ and the need to be with my own thoughts.
I enjoy going out, have a great time and am great company, but only when I know I can come back and ‘recharge’. An ex of mine used to partially get it, she would ask if I was ‘socialled out’ even after an afternoon with people, and she would leave me to it.
It’s encouraging to know there are people out there like me, and I suppose that like it or not, I’m an introvert.
I’m very relieved this morning though. It explains so much and I’ll stop telling people I’m weird, and tell them I’m an introvert instead.
Thanks for this article, my search is finally over, and I now know who (or what) I am and the reasons behind it.
I scored 23 in the test by the way.
I’m an introvert apparently. 24 true. I always thought I was just too shy and selfconcious….
I don’t like to be the center of attention but I do like it when people show appreciation of my work (I’m an artist). I’m not too talkative unless it’s something I’m interested in and I stink at small talk… Most of the time I end up feeling awkward because every one but me has something to say. /: I NEVER volunteer to go first for a class critique and always have a major adrenaline rush and blush big time if I have to talk in front of a group of people, sometimes even if I’m only THINKING about saying something. Glad to know I’m not just some freak of nature out there feeling awkward all by myself. /:)
I scored 29. Yeah, I’m up there. A couple of questions I was abmivalent about, and no. 24 – I DON’T like people to come to my house at all.
All my life I have thought that I was an extrovert because I am always smiling,can start up a sensitive or chirpy conversation with all that I meet, but probably talking more than listening. I’ve always loved going out and meeting friends old and new and always seem very popular…. BUT I never understood why I dread making a phone call, why I often feel shy and nervous in the company of people that I’ve won the hearts of, why when someone really likes me I feel stifled by their affections or attention. I notice anyone’s pain, sadness or anguish and feel it emotionally too, people always think that I am better or cleverer than I am, and my mind goes blank and my heart burns when someone is listening to me intently. I only realised I was an introvert when I was reading an article and I was shocked but somehow pleased and relieved. I could now allow myself to stay in the background or not feel guilty about the amount of time that I need alone. I understand now why I never watch TV if I am alone, my thoughts are far more interesting to me. When I told my son that I had discovered that I was an introvert, his initial reaction was NO, because I seem such an outgoing, always friendly and warm to all that I meet,then he thought for a time and nodded. I was just searching the net to find out more about myself when I came across this quiz, I scored 25. This is a revalation to me and I feel liberated to understand what I thought was weaknesses (dread making a phone call etc)is my personality and I can now cut myself some slack, and allow myself to be myself. Thank you so much for this.
i have always just thought i was shy and quiet around other people. not knowing what to say when im asked a simple random question about something. i feel like my mind goes blank but afterword when the subject has changed, i think of exactly what i should of said. i dont like calling people or answering the phone, ill txt instead. new places with a lot of people make me feel weird (like a club) and like everyones watching me. ill go to a hole in the wall bar instead. i get confused when im making conversation with people, i know what i want to say but it does not come out clear. makes me sound like im making it up or lying but im not. thank you for this quiz! im going to read more on this subject but it does make me feel better knowing im just not ‘shy’
I have been taking a lot of Introvert and Extrovert personality quizzes and they all give me the same result: Introvert. On this small quiz you designed, I scored a 27 out of 29. Thanks to people like you who take the time to publish these types of quizzes/tests, I have been able to realize what kind of person I am. My mom has always told me: “Go out more!” “Talk to those people!” “Make more friends!” But that was just not me and the more I tried to be “outgoing” and “talkative” the more I would fail. In result, I would become more depressed which made me feel like a strange character and completely out of place. Now I know its just who I am and I’m not the only one. Thank you!
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Ambivert
I’m definitely an introvert – and I love that every time I take a test for introverted personality traits, I get more confirmation that I’m an introvert!
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i scored 19, and, yeah really, I like to dance, I just a lil bit scared of new places, new faces, but I also like to show off sometimes, and playing the crazy