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Hey guys, I have been around the scene for quite a while now. I picked up Starcraft with a few friends in 2001 and fell in love. I quickly dove into the scene, idolizing players such as Grrr, Legionnaire, GARIMTO, and IntoTheRain.
I have gone to quite a few offline events and met a good number of Starcraft players in person. Through most of my time in the community I have always had a suspicion that personality type influenced greatly on many things, including how much the game draws you, how much you are willing to devote to the game, as well as how quickly you improve.
Many of you are probably familiar with a Jung or Myers Briggs personality test, if not I recommend you take the test even if you are not interested in participating in the topic as it does give you some interesting insights.
What I am attempting here will be a study on personality type vs results in SC2. My initial hypothesis is that despite the strongest thinking types (INTP and INTJ), being two of the rarest personality types(roughly 2% of the population respectively), they will be quite strongly represented at the higher levels of Starcraft 2.
This is a study that I plan to use for the next piece I will be writing.
With that, I will give you the method I will be using for measurement. I am adding a series of polls, separated by league, and then grouped by Introverts or Extroverts.
Link to the test can be found here: http://www.humanmetrics.com/cgi-win/jtypes2.asp
Grand Master
+ Show Spoiler +Introverts: Poll: What is your personality type?INTP (37) 34% INTJ (31) 29% INFJ (13) 12% ISTJ (8) 7% ISTP (8) 7% INFP (5) 5% ISFP (4) 4% ISFJ (2) 2% 108 total votes Your vote: What is your personality type? (Vote): INTP
(Vote): INTJ
(Vote): INFJ
(Vote): INFP
(Vote): ISFJ
(Vote): ISTJ
(Vote): ISTP
(Vote): ISFP
Extroverts: Poll: What is your personality type?ENTP (21) 31% ENTJ (16) 24% ENFP (11) 16% ESFP (8) 12% ENFJ (4) 6% ESFJ (3) 4% ESTP (3) 4% ESTJ (2) 3% 68 total votes Your vote: What is your personality type? (Vote): ENTP
(Vote): ENTJ
(Vote): ENFJ
(Vote): ENFP
(Vote): ESFJ
(Vote): ESTJ
(Vote): ESTP
(Vote): ESFP
Master
+ Show Spoiler +Introverts: Poll: What is your personality type?INTJ (70) 37% INTP (38) 20% INFJ (28) 15% ISTJ (22) 12% ISTP (10) 5% INFP (9) 5% ISFJ (7) 4% ISFP (7) 4% 191 total votes Your vote: What is your personality type? (Vote): INTP
(Vote): INTJ
(Vote): INFJ
(Vote): INFP
(Vote): ISFJ
(Vote): ISTJ
(Vote): ISTP
(Vote): ISFP
Extroverts: Poll: What is your personality type?ENTJ (24) 30% ENTP (15) 19% ENFJ (12) 15% ENFP (9) 11% ESTJ (6) 8% ESFP (6) 8% ESTP (5) 6% ESFJ (3) 4% 80 total votes Your vote: What is your personality type? (Vote): ENTP
(Vote): ENTJ
(Vote): ENFJ
(Vote): ENFP
(Vote): ESFJ
(Vote): ESTJ
(Vote): ESTP
(Vote): ESFP
Diamond
+ Show Spoiler +Introverts: Poll: What is your personality type?INTJ (47) 39% INTP (27) 22% ISTJ (15) 12% ISTP (9) 7% ISFP (8) 7% INFJ (7) 6% INFP (7) 6% ISFJ (2) 2% 122 total votes Your vote: What is your personality type? (Vote): INTP
(Vote): INTJ
(Vote): INFJ
(Vote): INFP
(Vote): ISFJ
(Vote): ISTJ
(Vote): ISTP
(Vote): ISFP
Extroverts: Poll: What is your personality type?ENTJ (13) 27% ENTP (10) 20% ENFJ (8) 16% ENFP (6) 12% ESFP (5) 10% ESTJ (3) 6% ESFJ (2) 4% ESTP (2) 4% 49 total votes Your vote: What is your personality type? (Vote): ENTP
(Vote): ENTJ
(Vote): ENFJ
(Vote): ENFP
(Vote): ESFJ
(Vote): ESTJ
(Vote): ESTP
(Vote): ESFP
Platinum
+ Show Spoiler +Introverts: Poll: What is your personality type?INTJ (35) 41% INTP (13) 15% ISTJ (10) 12% INFP (8) 9% ISTP (7) 8% INFJ (6) 7% ISFP (4) 5% ISFJ (3) 3% 86 total votes Your vote: What is your personality type? (Vote): INTP
(Vote): INTJ
(Vote): INFJ
(Vote): INFP
(Vote): ISFJ
(Vote): ISTJ
(Vote): ISTP
(Vote): ISFP
Extroverts: Poll: What is your personality type?ENTJ (12) 40% ENTP (5) 17% ENFJ (4) 13% ESTP (3) 10% ENFP (2) 7% ESFP (2) 7% ESFJ (1) 3% ESTJ (1) 3% 30 total votes Your vote: What is your personality type? (Vote): ENTP
(Vote): ENTJ
(Vote): ENFJ
(Vote): ENFP
(Vote): ESFJ
(Vote): ESTJ
(Vote): ESTP
(Vote): ESFP
Gold
+ Show Spoiler +Introverts: Poll: What is your personality type?INTJ (26) 42% INTP (13) 21% INFP (7) 11% ISTJ (5) 8% INFJ (4) 6% ISFJ (3) 5% ISTP (3) 5% ISFP (1) 2% 62 total votes Your vote: What is your personality type? (Vote): INTP
(Vote): INTJ
(Vote): INFJ
(Vote): INFP
(Vote): ISFJ
(Vote): ISTJ
(Vote): ISTP
(Vote): ISFP
Extroverts: Poll: What is your personality type?ENTJ (7) 28% ENFP (6) 24% ENFJ (3) 12% ESFP (3) 12% ENTP (2) 8% ESFJ (2) 8% ESTJ (1) 4% ESTP (1) 4% 25 total votes Your vote: What is your personality type? (Vote): ENTP
(Vote): ENTJ
(Vote): ENFJ
(Vote): ENFP
(Vote): ESFJ
(Vote): ESTJ
(Vote): ESTP
(Vote): ESFP
Silver
+ Show Spoiler +Introverts: Poll: What is your personality type?INTJ (8) 40% INFP (5) 25% INTP (4) 20% ISTJ (2) 10% ISFP (1) 5% INFJ (0) 0% ISFJ (0) 0% ISTP (0) 0% 20 total votes Your vote: What is your personality type? (Vote): INTP
(Vote): INTJ
(Vote): INFJ
(Vote): INFP
(Vote): ISFJ
(Vote): ISTJ
(Vote): ISTP
(Vote): ISFP
Extroverts: Poll: What is your personality type?ENFJ (3) 33% ENTJ (2) 22% ENFP (2) 22% ENTP (1) 11% ESFJ (1) 11% ESTJ (0) 0% ESTP (0) 0% ESFP (0) 0% 9 total votes Your vote: What is your personality type? (Vote): ENTP
(Vote): ENTJ
(Vote): ENFJ
(Vote): ENFP
(Vote): ESFJ
(Vote): ESTJ
(Vote): ESTP
(Vote): ESFP
Bronze
+ Show Spoiler +Introverts: Poll: What is your personality type?INTJ (7) 33% INTP (5) 24% ISFP (4) 19% ISTJ (2) 10% INFP (1) 5% ISFJ (1) 5% ISTP (1) 5% INFJ (0) 0% 21 total votes Your vote: What is your personality type? (Vote): INTP
(Vote): INTJ
(Vote): INFJ
(Vote): INFP
(Vote): ISFJ
(Vote): ISTJ
(Vote): ISTP
(Vote): ISFP
Extroverts: Poll: What is your personality type?ESFJ (3) 38% ENTJ (2) 25% ENTP (1) 13% ENFP (1) 13% ESTP (1) 13% ENFJ (0) 0% ESTJ (0) 0% ESFP (0) 0% 8 total votes Your vote: What is your personality type? (Vote): ENTP
(Vote): ENTJ
(Vote): ENFJ
(Vote): ENFP
(Vote): ESFJ
(Vote): ESTJ
(Vote): ESTP
(Vote): ESFP
Optionally you can fill out the following questionnaire to give some more information on the info we collect.
Personality Type:
League:
Race:
Estimated total games:
Do you have any SC:BW experience:
Do you feel personality type effects your SC2 experience and if so, why: \
My next step will be continuing this topic on various gaming websites to see if it is a phenomenon within Starcraft or within Gaming entirely.
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Personality Type:INFJ
League:Masters
Race: Zerg
Estimated total games: 500
Do you have any SC:BW experience: 20 games of -D games on iccup
Do you feel personality type effects your SC2 experience and if so, why: + Show Spoiler +Since when does personality doesn't affect x :D
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Personality Type: GTFO
League: GM
Race: hardest race (terran)
Estimated total games: over 9000
BW experience: A+
Do you feel personality type effects your SC2 experience and if so, why: 0wning n00bs with superior talent makes my lyfe way better than all urs
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This is some interesting information to be sure. I am still extremely interested to see the personality type disparity within the Starcraft scene as well (meaning the difference between personality and league as well as time played).
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I will post my response as well just for any curious minds.
Personality Type: INTP
League: Masters
Race: Protoss/Zerg
Estimated total games: 800 since release
Do you have any SC:BW experience: played for 10 years
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On October 18 2012 16:27 dream-_- wrote:This is some interesting information to be sure. I am still extremely interested to see the personality type disparity within the Starcraft scene as well (meaning the difference between personality and league as well as time played).
Did you not read the post I linked? That's exactly what was being done.
http://www.sc2persona.com/
Don't let me stop you from collecting more data, though. Just pointing out there's some you can already use.
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You are correct, I missed that potion of it, only saw the results by race and overall!
Edit - Extremely interesting, glad to see that someone has done this research for me already. Saves me some time in the next post I play to make.
Also if possible I would like to continue with the polling regardless if for no other reason than to confirm the results in the previous test (as both tests are run with a relatively small sample size).
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Personality Type: ENTJ
League: Master
Race: Zerg
Estimated total games: 3390
Do you have any SC:BW experience: Yes a little ;D
Do you feel personality type effects your SC2 experience and if so, why: Currently not at all ;D
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Damn I miss clicked: Platinum ISTP, but I clicked ISTJ....
EDIT:
Personality Type: ISTP
League: Platinum
Race: Random
Estimated total games: Ladder ~1200 / Custom ~1000
Do you have any SC:BW experience: 2 years ~ 200 games
Do you feel personality type effects: I like to go to my limits.
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All the I's are on teamliquid......... while the E's are outdoors not playing sc2.. 
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On October 18 2012 18:02 lazyitachi wrote:All the I's are on teamliquid......... while the E's are outdoors not playing sc2..
Could you explain this to me? What´s up with these I´s and E´s?
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I feel obliged to mention here that personality tests are just about the biggest bullshit mankind has ever invented. I've (sadly) been forced to use both Jung and MBTI, as well as a whole range of other systems. They mean absolutely nothing. At best, their only purpose is to have customers think about their own personality.
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INTx confirmed over and over again.
INTJ
Introvert(100%) iNtuitive(88%) iNtuitive Thinking(100%) Judging(1%)
You have marginal or no preference of Judging over Perceiving (1%)
Personality Type: INTx
League: Diamond
Race: Zerg
Estimated total games: 2500+
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Personality Type: ENTJ
League: Diamond
Race: Random
Estimated total games: 1v1? 2000 or so
Do you have any SC:BW experience: No
Do you feel personality type effects your SC2 experience and if so, why: I enjoy the combined physical/mechanical challenge of SC2 and that literally any time I can compete against someone of my own skill level with the intent of improving
ENTJ
Extravert(44%) iNtuitive(75%) iNtuitive Thinking(25%) Judging(1%)
You have moderate preference of Extraversion over Introversion (44%)
You have distinctive preference of Intuition over Sensing (75%)
You have moderate preference of Thinking over Feeling (25%)
You have marginal or no preference of Judging over Perceiving (1%)
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Personality Type: INFJ
League: Platinum
Race: Terran
Estimated total games: 800
Do you have any SC:BW experience: Yes
Do you feel personality type effects your SC2 experience and if so, why:
- I'm pretty sure one's personality type heavily affects one's decision-making skills overall in SCII, as more aggressive and outgoing people would opt for harass-type of play, as well as focus mostly on early to mid-game strategies, while the opposite would settle for full preparation, macro and defensive tactics in order to assure themselves of certain victory. Finding out that I'm an INFJ helped with realizing why I almost never stick to a single strategy and always improvise early on or mid-way.
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Personality Type: INTJ
League: Diamond
Race: Protoss
Estimated total games: 900
Do you have any SC:BW experience: no
Do you feel personality type effects your SC2 experience and if so, why: it does, i can tell from some of the pixels and from playing quite a few games of chess before. Seriously, I played chess for 13 years.
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I am INTP with 138 IQ and can't get out of gold. This can't be accurate.
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Personality Type: ISTJ
League: Master
Race: Z
Estimated total games: 6500
Do you have any SC:BW experience: No
Do you feel personality type effects your SC2 experience and if so, why: No
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I can immediately tell you something you messed up on horribly. You put the polls AFTER stating your prediction. In terms of scientific validity, this tanks your test completely. You don't tell your test subjects what you think before the test, because this alters the way they will test.
I know you're not looking to do perfect science here, but at least put a little effort into it.
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EPT
