HEXACO Personality Test — Free 24-Item Six-Factor Profile

The HEXACO Six-Factor Personality Profile asks you to rate 24 statements on a 5-point scale from “Strongly disagree” to “Strongly agree.” Each of the six axes — Honesty-Humility, Emotionality, Extraversion, Agreeableness, Conscientiousness and Openness to Experience — gets 4 statements, and 8 of the 24 are worded in the opposite direction, so their scores are flipped before counting. The more you agree that a small shortcut is fine as long as nobody finds out, for example, the lower your Honesty-Humility score.

Each axis turns its four answers into a score from 0 to 100: 60 or above is shown as High, below 40 as Low, and anything in between as Medium. The result page draws the six scores as a hexagon radar chart and adds a short reading for every axis — what the axis means and a practical tip for your current level. Because the statements are short, most people finish in about 4 minutes.

The overall summary is chosen from the average of the six axes: below 40 you see “A Small, Understated Hexagon,” from 40 to 66 “An Evenly Balanced Hexagon,” and at 67 or above “A Bold, Well-Drawn Hexagon.” A small hexagon doesn't mean a faint personality; it usually means you agreed cautiously, or that your character is concentrated on one or two axes. That's why the gap between your highest and lowest axis often says more than the average itself.

Some axes share a name with the Big Five but mean something slightly different here. Emotionality covers anxiety, empathy and attachment, but not anger; the ability to calm your temper belongs to Agreeableness instead. So agreeing that your anger lingers when you feel ignored lowers Agreeableness rather than raising Emotionality. Your mood that day, and whether you pictured work or home while answering, can also move a score by a few steps — read the result as a sketch of the present.

The HEXACO model was proposed by Ashton and Lee and became widely known through their 2004 report on the measurement properties of the HEXACO Personality Inventory and their 2007 paper on the model's theoretical and practical advantages. Soundary's version consists of self-check statements written for education with reference to that six-factor structure; it is not a translation or authorized edition of the HEXACO-PI-R or the HEXACO-60. With only 4 statements per axis, it doesn't split traits into finer facets — use it as a map of the broad outline.

If you save your result, a later retake can be compared side by side with your previous hexagon. Axes that stay in the same place across several retakes are closer to your lasting disposition than any single result. For a class or workshop, you can create a group link: participants join anonymously without signing in and can see where they sit within the group's overall distribution.