The Dark Mirror Index
Edition No. 162 · daily
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Sample 7,722 takes+145 since yesterdaySince 4 April 2026 · 6 axes · 20 items43 regions with 30+ takes

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How neurotypical are you compared to everyone else?

59% of 7,722 takers have neurotypical as their highest axis, and 26% score high on it. The median is 35. This is the axis the mirror hands back most often.

Pick a score

45

Pronounced

A neurotypical score of 45 is higher than 61% of 7,722 takers, the top 39%. 452 people scored exactly this.

The axis is shaping choices.

BASELINE26%TRAITS26%PRONOUNCED23%HIGH26%KANIKAYOU0255075100
The neurotypical axis. Count of takers at each score; the vertical line is the score you picked and the band it falls in is named. The dashed gold line is Kanika's own score.

That was a score you picked. Twenty scenarios, seven minutes, and the Index reads your real one on every axis.

Get your real one

Kanika Batra sat the same twenty scenarios. Her neurotypical score is 15, the baseline band, higher than 23% 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.

baselinetraitspronouncedhigh
baseline 26% (2,011)traits 26% (1,976)pronounced 23% (1,743)high 26% (1,992)

The ladder

Every row is a permalink (#score-60): a neurotypical score of 60 is higher than 77% of takers.

ScoreBandTakersHigher than
100High3999%
95High8499%
90High12198%
85High17096%
80High23093%
75High26390%
70High32186%
65High37082%
60High39477%
55Pronounced40772%
50Pronounced42566%
45Pronounced45261%
40Pronounced45955%
35Traits48249%
30Traits50342%
25Traits47936%
20Traits51229%
15Baseline51723%
10Baseline54316%
5Baseline4959%
0Baseline4563%

Straight answers

Frequently asked questions

Why do so many people score neurotypical on a dark psychology test?

Because most people, most of the time, pick the measured answer, even people drawn to a quiz like this. 59% of takers come out neurotypical. The interesting question is what their second axis was.

What is a normal neurotypical score?

The median is 35 and the top 10% starts at 75. Scores spread widely on this axis, more than on any of the dark five.

Does a high score mean I have no dark traits?

No. It means the ordinary answer won more often than not. Look at your highest dark axis and its band; that is the part of the mirror worth reading.

What this axis measures

Answers that read as measured, empathic and consequence-aware. The score is how often that was your pull across the twenty scenarios.

Traits, or the type?

A high neurotypical score is not a clean bill; it means the ordinary answer won most of the time. Plenty of people with a strong dark axis also score high here, because twenty answers spread. Read it beside your other five.

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See where you fall on the neurotypical axis.

Seven minutes, twenty scenarios, then your band and percentile on every axis against everyone above.

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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.

Baseline
0 to 15
Present, not a feature.
Traits
20 to 35
Recognisable and common. Not the person.
Pronounced
40 to 55
The axis is shaping choices.
High
60 to 100
Dominant. The only band to read as the type.

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.

The full method, exclusions, reliability and how to cite
Why 59% of People Who Take a Dark Psychology Test Score Neurotypical