What's Your Programmer Personality Type? Take the Test Now!
Ever wondered what your programmer personality type is? I’ve designed a personality test based on the Myers-Briggs Personality Test which will tell you just that. By answering a simple 12 questions you’ll be given a 4 letter acronym describing your personality. Are you a doer or a thinker, solo or team player?
This idea came to me while working with my new team at work and noticing how polar opposite a lot of the members in the team were. I thought back to all of the teams I’ve worked with in the past and noticed there were some definite trends with different personalities. I’ve also wanted to learn php for quite a while so I thought what better way to learn php then make an online quiz. With the always excellent tutorials at W3 Schools and some fine tuning help from Cliff I’ve put together the first version of this test. Take the test and let me know how you went, I’d love to hear what everyone else’s personality types are, mine is PLTB (Planner, Low-level, Team player, Conservative).
Nice work on the test, Alistair!
Perhaps this will be the AD-PPT test that all programmers will take before joining a job very soon!
My results came up as ->
DLSB – Doer, Low level, Solo, liBeral
I wonder if that explains some things
DHSB (Doer, High level, Solo, liBeral)
That puts us at almost polar opposites. So what does that mean? Would we complement each other or would we be at each others’ throats?
Interesting test, PHTB for me
Yeah, interesting.. DHSB here too.
PLTB = Planner, Low level, Team, liBeral
I just gotta be different..
I thought that I would take some liberty with the word “programmer” (being in industrial automation) and take the test. The result (PHTB) is an accurate reflection of what I do, and being a ‘T’ in an office of one might explain some things…
I’m supposedly a DLTB. I’d have said I was more of a DHSB if asked before doing the test. Think some of the questions were too black or white and I was somewhere in between. Although understand why tests like this try and force you to choose one way or another rather than having a middle/average option.
DLTB
some questions could have gone either way.. and i changed the answer like 3 times. Is this wrong? Or do I just have a split personality.
MrThompson:
Quite a few people found this problem, however when I did the real Myers-Briggs test I was also borderline on a couple of the areas so I thought it was ok for my test to be the same.
PHTB? I am a PHBT? Oh, well. This is quite accurate in fact (but I feel the test can be done differently to filter some particularities: for example, I tend to design a lot, but when I code, I want to ge the simplest possible thing (hence the “printf (“5+6=%d”, 5+6) is good code”, which is not what you expect from a pure design point of view)).
Anyway, good work
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This has to be the most pointless thing I’ve ever seen.
The MB test works by analyzing the answers to the questions based on their relationship to personality traits (which might not seem obvious), as well as a theoretic background for understanding what those traits mean.
This test simply tallied up four groups of three related questions and whichever side won each group, that side got the letter for that slot.
The senseless biurification (either/or, black/white, engineer/hacker) also hurts.
Well i found my self PHTB
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