Live report
People looked in the mirror. This is what it saw.
- Median psychopathic
- 15 / 100
- Lean psychopathic
- 20%
- Score high
- 3%
- By
- Kanika Batra · diagnosed ASPD
people have taken the Dark Mirror, counted live. The charts below are drawn from their answers and refreshed each morning.
59%
95% interval 58 to 60%
score neurotypical as their highest axis. The mirror says "you are fine" more than anything else.
20%
95% interval 19 to 21%
lean psychopathic: it is their highest axis. Most of them only just. Traits are common.
3%
95% interval 3 to 4%
score high on the psychopathic axis, 60 or more. The type is rare, even here.
How psychopathic is psychopathic?
"Psychopathic" on this quiz means the psychopathic axis was your highest of six. That is a direction, not a dose. A taker whose top axis is psychopathic at 25 has spread their answers almost evenly and edged one way; a taker at 75 has put fifteen of twenty answers in the same place. The Index reports both, and keeps them apart.
So every axis is read in four bands. Baseline, up to 15: the axis is present but not a feature. Traits, 20 to 35: recognisable, common, and not the person. Pronounced, 40 to 55: the axis is shaping choices. High, 60 and above: the axis is dominant, and the only band anyone should read as "the type".
Pick a score
45
A psychopathic score of 45 is higher than 91% of 7,722 takers, the top 9%. 239 people scored exactly this.
The axis is shaping choices.
That was a score you picked. Twenty scenarios, seven minutes, and the Index reads your real one on every axis.
Get your real oneKanika Batra sat the same twenty scenarios. Her psychopathic score is 75, the high band, higher than 99% of takers. She is diagnosed ASPD, clinically assessed as Factor 1 psychopathy, by her psychiatrist; the dashed line is one person's self-report on a screener, not a clinical reading of it.
Of the 1,564 people who lean psychopathic, 524 are in the traits band, 771 are pronounced, and 269 are high. Read that way, the honest sentence is not "a third of takers are psychopaths". It is: 20% lean that way, 3% score high, and the high group is who this site was built for.
Where the scores fall
Every axis has its own shape. Psychopathic scores run out along a long tail; sociopathic scores bunch tightly; narcissism collapses toward zero, which is the result people argue with most. Same bands, same scale on every chart. Open an axis for its ladder.
Where would you fall on these curves?
Six axes, one marker each. Twenty scenarios put yours on every chart above, against everyone who came before you.
What they came out as, and how strongly
Highest axis on the left; on the right, how many of that group actually scored high on it. The two columns disagree on purpose. Type tells you the direction. The band tells you whether it matters.
| Highest axis | Takers | Share | Of whom high |
|---|---|---|---|
| The BalancedNeurotypical | 4,585 | 59.4%58 to 60% | 1,992 (43%) |
| The PredatorPsychopathic | 1,564 | 20.3%19 to 21% | 269 (17%) |
| The WildcardSociopathic | 694 | 9.0%8 to 10% | 11 (2%) |
| The StormBorderline | 493 | 6.4%6 to 7% | 34 (7%) |
| The EmperorNarcissistic | 355 | 4.6%4 to 5% | 2 (1%) |
| HistrionicHistrionic | 31 | 0.4% | 0 |
Histrionic could not be anyone's highest axis before the 2026-08-27 rebalance gave it equal scenario coverage; its count accumulates from that date, reported so a low number is not read as a finding about people.
Where they were sitting
Region is inferred from the browser's timezone, so "New York" means Eastern-time takers rather than the five boroughs. Zones with fewer than thirty takes are held back until they can say something.
| Region (timezone) | Takes | Share |
|---|---|---|
| London | 1,205 | 15.6% |
| New York | 1,004 | 13.0% |
| Chicago | 601 | 7.8% |
| Los Angeles | 474 | 6.1% |
| Berlin | 302 | 3.9% |
| Elsewhere in the Americas | 268 | 3.5% |
| Sydney | 247 | 3.2% |
| Elsewhere in Europe | 242 | 3.1% |
| Toronto | 209 | 2.7% |
| Amsterdam | 166 | 2.1% |
See where you fall, and how far.
Seven minutes, twenty scenarios, then your band and percentile on every axis against everyone above.
Method
The Dark Mirror is a 20-item scenario quiz. Each answer is attributed to one of six axes; a score is the share of your answers that fell to that axis, so scores move in steps of five. Your type is simply your highest axis.
Every axis is read in four bands: baseline (0 to 15), traits (20 to 35), pronounced (40 to 55) and high (60 to 100). Bands are fixed cut points chosen so that high means at least twelve of twenty answers went to one axis. They are the Index's reading aid, not clinical thresholds.
Percentiles are computed against everyone who has taken the quiz and recomputed daily at 09:41 UTC; each recomputation is an edition. Ties are split down the middle: higher than 91% means 91% of takers scored strictly lower, plus half of those who tied.
Regions are browser timezones, so New York means Eastern-time takers rather than the five boroughs; regions with fewer than thirty takes are held back. Nothing here is a population estimate and nothing here is a diagnosis.
Written and read by Kanika Batra, diagnosed ASPD, clinically assessed as Factor 1 psychopathy. An audience portrait, not a census.
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