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How narcissistic are you compared to everyone else?
Narcissism collapses toward zero on the Dark Mirror: 77% of 7,722 takers sit at baseline, the median is 10, and just 0% score high. It is the result people argue with most.
Pick a score
45
A narcissistic score of 45 is higher than 99% of 7,722 takers, the top 1%. 23 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 narcissistic score is 10, the baseline band, higher than 52% 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.
The ladder
Every row is a permalink (#score-60): a narcissistic score of 60 is higher than 99% of takers.
| Score | Band | Takers | Higher than |
|---|---|---|---|
| 100 | High | 0 | 99% |
| 95 | High | 0 | 99% |
| 90 | High | 0 | 99% |
| 85 | High | 0 | 99% |
| 80 | High | 0 | 99% |
| 75 | High | 1 | 99% |
| 70 | High | 0 | 99% |
| 65 | High | 0 | 99% |
| 60 | High | 1 | 99% |
| 55 | Pronounced | 3 | 99% |
| 50 | Pronounced | 7 | 99% |
| 45 | Pronounced | 23 | 99% |
| 40 | Pronounced | 44 | 99% |
| 35 | Traits | 118 | 98% |
| 30 | Traits | 261 | 96% |
| 25 | Traits | 491 | 91% |
| 20 | Traits | 824 | 82% |
| 15 | Baseline | 1,137 | 70% |
| 10 | Baseline | 1,553 | 52% |
| 5 | Baseline | 1,644 | 32% |
| 0 | Baseline | 1,615 | 10% |
Straight answers
Frequently asked questions
What is the average narcissist score?
On this quiz the mean is 11.0 and the median 10. Most people score low, which is why any score above 25 is already in the top 10%.
Why do so few people score high on narcissism?
The scenarios pit image against other pulls, and image rarely wins twelve times out of twenty. It also tends to hide from a self-report; people who lead with image are often the last to pick the answer that says so.
Is a high score a diagnosis?
No. It is a self-report across twenty scenarios. Only a clinician can diagnose, and only with a proper assessment. Read the band, not a label.
What this axis measures
Answers driven by image, entitlement, and the need to be seen as the prize. The score counts how often that was the pull.
Traits, or the type?
Some self-regard is healthy and most people show a little of it here. Narcissistic personality disorder is a pervasive, impairing pattern diagnosed by a clinician. A pronounced or high score means image was steering many of your answers; it does not mean the disorder.
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Seven minutes, twenty scenarios, then your band and percentile on every axis against everyone above.