How Kizuki works
What we measure, how we score it, and what it can’t tell you.
Reviewed November 2026
Your five traits
- What it is
- Twenty statements from the Mini-IPIP, a short public questionnaire for the Big Five. Researchers call the five traits extraversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, neuroticism and openness. Kizuki calls them Social energy, Care for others, Order, Sensitivity and Imagination. The Mini-IPIP is a short form of a longer IPIP questionnaire, and its authors tested it in five studies.
- How it’s scored
- Each trait is the average of its four answers, from 1 to 5. Some statements are worded the other way round, so we flip those answers before averaging. We put “I” in front of each statement so it reads naturally, and reworded twelve of them into plainer English (for example, “seldom feel blue” became “rarely feel sad or down”). Each one still asks the same thing as the published statement, scored the same way. Plain rewording like this is common, but this exact wording hasn’t been tested in a study.
- What it can’t tell you
- Four statements per trait is short, so it gives a rough picture, and a score can move from one day to the next. We show your own average and don’t compare you with other people, because we don’t have a table of typical scores to compare you with.
- Sources
- Donnellan, M. B., Oswald, F. L., Baird, B. M., & Lucas, R. E. (2006). The Mini-IPIP scales: Tiny-yet-effective measures of the Big Five factors of personality. Psychological Assessment, 18(2), 192–203. doi.org/10.1037/1040-3590.18.2.192
- Goldberg, L. R., Johnson, J. A., Eber, H. W., Hogan, R., Ashton, M. C., Cloninger, C. R., & Gough, H. G. (2006). The International Personality Item Pool and the future of public-domain personality measures. Journal of Research in Personality, 40(1), 84–96. doi.org/10.1016/j.jrp.2005.08.007
- The IPIP’s statements are in the public domain. ipip.ori.org/
How you get close to people
- What it is
- Six statements in our own words, about two things researchers measure in adult relationships. One is worry about where you stand with people, which researchers call attachment anxiety. The other is unease with letting people in, called attachment avoidance. When researchers put the existing questionnaires about closeness into one large study, these two came out as the main dimensions.
- How it’s scored
- Each is the average of its three answers, from 1 to 5. We show them as two scores on a line, without sorting you into a type, because research suggests people differ by degree on these two.
- What it can’t tell you
- Our own wording, not a published scale, and not tested the way the Mini-IPIP has been. Three statements each is very short. Read it as a reflection, not a measurement of your attachment style.
- Sources
- Brennan, K. A., Clark, C. L., & Shaver, P. R. (1998). Self-report measurement of adult attachment: An integrative overview. In J. A. Simpson & W. S. Rholes (Eds.), Attachment theory and close relationships (pp. 46–76). Guilford Press.
- Fraley, R. C., Hudson, N. W., Heffernan, M. E., & Segal, N. (2015). Are adult attachment styles categorical or dimensional? A taxometric analysis of general and relationship-specific attachment orientations. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 109(2), 354–368. doi.org/10.1037/pspp0000027
Things you’re going through
- What it is
- Common things people go through, like worrying what people think of you or saying “I’m fine” when you’re not. You tap any that have happened to you lately, then answer one question about how heavy it’s been.
- How it’s scored
- Not scored. We quote the scenes you tapped back to you, and use them to pick which guide fits. If you say it’s been almost too much, or tap one of the heaviest scenes, we show free helplines before anything else.
- What it can’t tell you
- What you tap is about lately, not your whole life. It isn’t a diagnosis of anything.
- Sources
- Kizuki’s own questions.
Your type
- What it is
- A type for your two strongest traits, meaning your two highest scores. Researchers mostly describe personality as traits that run from low to high, so your type is a shorthand: the five scores underneath are the measurement.
- How it’s scored
- Ten types, one for each pair of traits. If two scores tie, a fixed order decides. If all five sit close together, your result says so and describes that instead of the pair.
- What it can’t tell you
- We made up the type names to sum up each mix. The scores underneath come straight from your answers.
- Sources
- Kizuki’s own type names.
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The voice that reads your result aloud when you tap play is computer-made. It reads parts of your result, never what you told us you’re going through.
The character for each type is drawn with an AI image model (FLUX.2 klein, by Black Forest Labs), then picked and finished by us. It shows the type, not you, and everyone with that type sees the same one.
Kizuki isn’t therapy and can’t diagnose anything. If things feel like too much, you can talk to someone now:
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