Trace
Our own test. Pack a bag, pick a seat, hang a picture, and we show you what we saw.
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What it measures
Every other test asks who you are, and you answer as who you would like to be. Trace never asks. It gives you five small tasks, each about something ordinary, such as packing for a weekend or choosing a seat on a train, and it watches what you do with them. Nothing is graded, and there is no right way to do any of it.
What you do is scored on eight behavioral axes, and we tell you which eight at the end. Your type comes from the axis where you stood out most, with a streak of the next one, and both come with receipts: the moments that produced them, with the real numbers. If you have taken other tests here, Trace also looks at how you took them, so its result gets fuller.
What it does not claim: it is not more accurate than a questionnaire, and nobody has validated it, including us. Published studies find that behavior reveals personality moderately well, and a few minutes of tasks is a small sample of anyone's behavior. On our ranking it gets 2 out of 5 for evidence and 5 out of 5 for fun. It is not a clinical measure of anything.
What you get
- Your type, named from the strongest of eight behavioral axes, with a portrait
- The receipts: the moments that decided it, with the real numbers
- A streak from your second strongest axis
- A plain account of how it works, once the tasks are over
Where it comes from
Trace is our own. We designed it for this site: the tasks, the eight axes, the sixteen types and the scoring that connects them. The idea that behavior reveals personality comes from published research, but our tasks and our scoring are new and unvalidated. Nobody, including us, has yet tested whether they measure what they aim to.
Who owns the original
We do: nothing in Trace is licensed from another publisher or copied from another test.