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Educational use only. Built on the Narcissistic Personality Inventory (NPI-40), Raskin & Terry 1988. Measures grandiose narcissism specifically. Not a diagnosis. Only a licensed clinician with a full history can diagnose Narcissistic Personality Disorder.
Calibrated by the NPI-40. Read by a real one.
Forty forced-choice items, two subscales, scored against the population norms the literature uses. The same instrument the field has used for thirty-five years; the read no other quiz site bothers to write.
Free. Full subscale and per-factor breakdown returned.
The NPI’s seven factors split cleanly into two clusters that read as different patterns in real life. The configuration of the two is what you actually want to know, not the total.
Authority + Self-sufficiency + Superiority. The leadership, dominance, and self-belief factors. The part of narcissism that other people sometimes call charisma.
Exploitativeness + Entitlement + Exhibitionism + Vanity. The factors that produce real-world relational damage. The part of narcissism the people closest to you eventually pay for.
The four configurations of the two subscales (high/low × high/low) are: Functional Self · the Sovereign · the Charmer · the Full Pattern. Your result page returns the configuration plus the per-factor breakdown.
Kanika Rose · Diagnosed ASPD · Author
The NPI is the most-cited self-report measure of grandiose narcissism in the academic literature, the reference instrument every other narcissism quiz on the internet derives from. Its items have been published since 1988 and tested in dozens of populations.
The voice difference here is not in the items, those are reproduced from Raskin & Terry exactly, with only punctuation harmonisation. It’s in the result-page interpretation, where most clinical-content sites lose the courage of the data and where this one doesn’t.
Source instrument: Raskin, R., & Terry, H. (1988). A principal-components analysis of the Narcissistic Personality Inventory and further evidence of its construct validity. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 54(5), 890-902.
Each item shows two statements; you pick the one that describes you better. Forced-choice is how the NPI was validated; Likert adaptations exist but compromise calibration.
Total score 0-40 plus per-factor breakdown across all seven Raskin & Terry factors. Subscales sum to Grandiose Confidence and Predatory Pattern.
Four configurations from the two-subscale cross: Functional Self, the Sovereign, the Charmer, the Full Pattern. Each gets a long-form read on the results page.
The companion test. Where the NPI-40 measures the loud version of narcissism, the HSNS measures the quiet one, vulnerable narcissism, hypersensitivity, shame-based grandiosity. Many people score low here and high there.
Measures psychopathy on two subscales (Primary, Secondary). The narcissism and psychopathy literatures are deeply intertwined; people who score high on the Predatory Pattern here often score high on Primary Psychopathy there.
The wide map: profiles you across six Cluster B types instead of one. Take this if you want to see how your narcissism axis sits in the broader personality landscape.
Long-form. The chapters on the narcissist's interior were written by an author with an adjacent diagnosis (ASPD, not NPD) and they will read as either familiar or accusatory depending on where in the configuration you currently are.
Educational and reflective use only. The NPI is a research instrument, not a diagnostic one, and measures grandiose narcissism specifically. Vulnerable / covert narcissism is measured by a different scale (HSNS) on /quiz/covert-narcissist. Only a licensed clinician with a full history can diagnose Narcissistic Personality Disorder.