About

Typically You is a small, independent site of personality tests. No accounts, no email capture, no paywall — you answer some questions and you get a page that tries to tell you something you had not already worked out about yourself.

How the tests are built

Each test is scored one of three ways. Some add up points along named axes and give you a letter code, the way the four-letter type indicators do. Some count votes for a set of outcomes. Some take a single input — a birth date, say — and look up the answer. Which method a test uses is stated on its page, along with how many questions it has and roughly how long it takes.

The questions and the result copy are written by hand. Where a test is based on published typology work, that is where the structure comes from; where a figure like "2.1% of people" appears, it comes from a published distribution rather than from us. If we do not have a real number, we leave it out instead of inventing one.

What these tests are not

They are not clinical instruments. They cannot diagnose anything, they are not validated for hiring or admissions, and no result here should be used to make a decision about anyone else's job, education, treatment or relationship.

Personality typology is contested. The four-letter indicators in particular have well-known problems with test–retest reliability — take one twice a month apart and you may get a different answer. We think the tests are worth taking anyway, for the same reason a good question is worth sitting with. Treat the result as a prompt, not a verdict.

Why it looks like this

The site is a few hundred plain HTML files. There is no login, no tracking pixel of our own, and nothing that follows you between visits. Ads pay for the hosting and the writing; everything else we could cut, we cut.

Getting in touch

Corrections, complaints and better questions are all welcome at hello@typicallyyou.com.