The social HEXACO test
Personality science, made social and legible.
Hexis brings the ethos of pop psychology to real science: take the HEXACO test, guess how the people you know score, then see — facet by facet — how well you actually read them.
Free · private by default · grounded in peer‑reviewed research
The vision
Pop psychology is everywhere — and mostly horoscopes with better fonts. Real personality research is rigorous, but mostly buried in journals. Hexis is the bridge.
That difference isn’t snobbery; it’s the whole point. A measure built on real evidence can tell you something true and durable about yourself and the people you know — and let you check it against how they actually turn out. A quiz that sorts you into a “type” for fun can’t, by construction. So the closer you read someone, the more it means.
Character isn’t a label you wear; it’s a settled disposition — ἕξις— that shows in how you act and how others read you. Hexis measures more than you: it measures how well we actually see each other. And because the numbers are real, that’s worth doing.
Rank your circle
See exactly where you land.
Add the people you know, then sort everyone by any trait — most honest, most conscientious, most open. Tap a trait to re-rank the room, and watch for your own name.
Sample circle, percentile scores. Tap a trait to re-rank — your real one is a profile away.
What you can do
Everything you need to measure character — and to find out how well you read it.
Guess the people you know
Read someone on the six factors and send them your take. When they take the test, you both see — facet by facet — how close you got.
Compare, side by side
Line two profiles up factor by factor, with a research‑grounded similarity score for how alike they really are.
Rank your circle
Sort everyone you’ve added by any trait — most honest, most conscientious, most open — and see exactly where you land among them.
Take it here, or bring your own
Answer the public‑domain IPIP‑HEXACO on Hexis — scored for you, no upload — or import a HEXACO‑PI‑R result you already have.
Factors, then facets
Start with the six factors, then go deeper into all 24 facets for a finer‑grained portrait — and finer‑grained guessing.
Private by default
Your name, your picture, and your results are three separate switches. Nothing is public unless you say so, and your speculations are only ever yours.
Six factors,
one letter each
HEXACO spells itself. Each factor breaks into four facets — open one to see what it’s made of.
- SincerityFairnessGreed‑avoidanceModesty
- FearfulnessAnxietyDependenceSentimentality
- Social self‑esteemSocial boldnessSociabilityLiveliness
- ForgivenessGentlenessFlexibilityPatience
- OrganizationDiligencePerfectionismPrudence
- Aesthetic appreciationInquisitivenessCreativityUnconventionality
Most personality tests are for fun. This one tells you something true.
The sixteen types, the star signs, the quiz that sorts your friend group: they’re built to flatter and entertain, and they’re a blast. HEXACO is a different animal — six factors drawn from decades of cross‑cultural evidence, measuring how people genuinely differ. So a read on Hexis isn’t a fun label; it’s a real signal about how someone thinks, works, and treats people. It won’t diagnose anyone, but it will tell you something that holds up.
Start your profile
A few minutes to a research‑grounded read on yourself — and a new way to understand the people you know.
Prefer the original instrument? Take the HEXACO‑PI‑R at hexaco.org and import it.