Are You a T-Rex, Triceratops or Velociraptor, Based on Your Myers-Briggs Personality?

By: Zoe Samuel
Estimated Completion Time
5 min
Are You a T-Rex, Triceratops or Velociraptor, Based on Your Myers-Briggs Personality?
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About This Quiz

The Myers-Briggs personality test has been used for decades to determine personality types, using personality aspects identified in the early 20th century. Because even Fortune 500 corporations use the Myers-Briggs in their human resources testing, courses offering ways to "hack" the test are all over the internet, offering users the "code" to getting assigned the personality type often favored by employers.

Just as the Myers-Briggs test identified different personality types, adapted to specific kinds of jobs and responsibilities, animal evolution developed simple creatures into the vast array of dinosaurs that once ruled land and sea. Some dinosaurs adapted to eating flora, evolving long necks for eating from trees, or stout, compact bodies for feeding off the ground. Some dinosaurs evolved for a diet of meat, with further curious evolutionary quirks intended to make stalking specific prey much easier. As a result, dinosaurs come in a huge variety of shapes and sizes suited to their unique challenges, be it eating strange vegetation, chasing unusual prey, or surviving the constant predation of some of the most terrifying lizards of all time.

Today, we will use the Myers-Briggs to determine what kind of dinosaur you are, based on the standard questions that might otherwise tell you something as dull as how extroverted you are. Take this quiz and find out, via Myers-Briggs, which dinosaur you are!

Which do you value more, making a plan, or freedom from commitments?
I don't like being tied down!
I hate having to be a slave to a plan!
I'd much rather have some idea of what's going on.
If I don't have a plan, I'm at a total loss.
How hard is it to fire a buddy who worked for you doing a bad job?
All too easy
I would have to wrestle with it.
I would never fire a friend.
Impossible
How often do your dreams have to do with real world events?
I do not dream, ever.
Almost every night
Rarely
About the average

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Do you daydream when you go for a walk?
No, it makes me hungry!
All the time
Sometimes
No, never
How fast do you become a part of your job's social scene?
Immediately
Within a few weeks
One week
Months
How easy is it to stay cool under pressure?
I'm never relaxed, pressure or otherwise!
It's difficult.
Very easily
It depends on the circumstances.

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Do you control your emotions, or are they in control of you?
They are very much in control of me.
I'm pretty Zen.
I like to think I "ride" my emotions.
It's hard for me to say.
How often do you steer the work group?
Most of the time
Half of the time
Some of the time, depending on the size of the group
Never
Do you stress when people don't get back to by email?
Very rarely
Always
Frequently
Never

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How rarely do you do something out of just wanting to see if it will work?
I try to do that at least once every day.
A few times a week
Once every other day
Never
How likely is it you'll dream just because you think it's cool?
Totally unlikely
Fairly likely
Very likely
Fairly unlikely
What do you like to watch for fun?
Live sports
Video games
Dancing
Reading

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How often do you daydream?
Never
Every day
I don't know since I don't really pay much attention to that.
A couple of times a week
Is organization or adaptability more important?
Organization, for sure. Make a plan you can stick to!
Adaptability, I think. No plan stays in stasis.
Definitely adaptability. You never know what challenges the day will hold.
Organization seems more important to me these days.
How often do you find yourself blind to your surroundings because you're lost in thought?
Never. I'm on the ball all day every day.
I'm sorry, I wasn't paying attention.
Very rarely
More often than I'd like

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What's more important, making sure people feel OK, or being right?
Winning is all! I must win!
I would preserve others' feelings at all costs unless it's the weekend.
I think you have to strike a balance in the middle.
I'd rather be right most of the time.
Do you think of yourself as a bench warmer?
No! I am an alpha who must alpha all over the place!
Yeah, more or less
Not really. I'm too hands on for that.
Most of the time, so I can save up my energy for the fourth quarter.
How does public speaking make you feel?
Like everyone should listen to me!
Awkward
Impatient
Bored

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Do you think of the meaning of life very often?
Never
I begin and end every day with that.
Rarely
Frequently
Do your fantasies about the future distract you often?
Rarely if ever
I don't bother with fantasies.
I think about them a lot!
I fantasize from time to time, but it doesn't always distract me.
Do you work better off routine or inspiration?
Every day is different for me.
My routine is as predictable as the sun.
Sometimes I'm inspired, but only with in a routine framework.
I lean hard on inspiration to get me through the day.

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When do you feel you have to justify yourself?
I don't ever bother. Don't apologize.
Frequently
Only very rarely
It depends a lot on the company I'm in. Sometimes I really feel the impulse to justify myself.
When do you like to do your housekeeping chores, in the morning, or the evening?
I'm more of an early bird but I can be flexible.
I'm definitely more prone to do that in the evenings.
I usually try to get things like that done in the evening, after work.
I'm usually up early to take care of that stuff.
Do you worry, and if so how much, about the affect on others your actions produce?
I worry about it all the time! I have very specific hopes for that!
I don't worry at all.
I worry a bit, but it depends on who would be affected.
I worry about it from time to time.

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Do you like to be the center of attention?
I love to hear others who are excited to see me.
I like it, but leave me alone.
I'd much rather go unseen.
It depends. Usually, I'd rather be a bit mysterious.
Do you feel insecure very often?
Are you making fun of my arms? Bro, do you even lift?
Not really, since I compensate very well.
I'm totally at ease.
I don't feel the need to compensate if that's what you mean.
How often do you fail in your organization and misplace something?
I often leave things strewn hither and yon.
I'm very organized and always put things in their place.
I usually leave things where they're meant to be.
I can forget where I put stuff sometimes.

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How difficult do you find the skill of empathy?
Do what with others?
It's hard for me to do.
Impossible
Pretty easy actually
Are you often upset by others?
I'm not bothered.
Often! I have to really throw my weight around.
More than you'd think. Sometimes I really need to work on those feelings.
Not too often
Is being correct more important than being cooperative?
Yes, always!
About half of the time
Never
Usually not

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