If you've taken the Keirsey-Bates or Myers-Briggs test and remember your type, enter it here. If you haven't taken the test, do NOT guess, since these words don't mean the same things they might mean in daily conversation. Since only 12 choices are allowed, I could not include all 16 types. Instead, choose EITHER:

1. INTROVERTED OR 2. EXTROVERTED
3. INTUITIVE OR 4. SENSING
5. THINKING OR 6. FEELING
7. JUDGING OR 8. PERCEIVING

Then enter your discipline(s)
5. FREESTYLE SINGLES
6. FREESTYLE PAIRS
7. DANCE
8. INTERPRETIVE/SHOWCASE

For example, I just took the poll. I chose Introverted + Intuitive + Feeling + Judging, then selected Freestyle Singles.

__________________
"You don't have to put an age limit on your dreams." - Dara Torres, 41, after her 2nd medal at the 2008 Olympics

The Keirsey-Bates or Myers-Briggs test revealed that I am:

78% introverted - I am a very expressed introvert
25% sensing - moderately expressed sensing personality
1% thinking - slightly expressed thinking personality
100% judging - very expressed judging personality

I was ISTJ and the disciplines I selected are freestyle singles and dance!

Very cool test and right on, IMO...

Okay, so if you were to send out an eVite and I answered "Maybe", it would drive you absolutely bonkers, right? ROFL!!

__________________
"You don't have to put an age limit on your dreams." - Dara Torres, 41, after her 2nd medal at the 2008 Olympics

I am ISTJ:

33% introverted - moderately expressed introvert
38% sensing - moderately expressed sensing personality
50% thinking - moderately expressed thinking personality
56% judging - moderately expressed judging personality

I checked off freestyle singles, dance and interp.

Hahaha, Doubletoe! You're probably right!

Last time I took the M-B test, I was an INFJ. So I picked that and Freestyle Singles.

Interesting that so far we have more introverts here, when the majority of the general population is extroverted...perhaps it's the nature of the internet?

OK I did the test earlier and forget the exact percentages but... I'm

Extroverted - Surprise, Surprise
Sensing - Something like 85%
Thinking - Again something in the high 80%
Perceiving - But slightly

ESTP

__________________
Happily defying the laws of physics when I skate...and not in a good way

If I could meet ole Axel Paulsen, I would kick him in the teeth

President and Founding member of the I hate Toe-Loops Club

Still a member, but trying to get out of the Pre-bronze peanut gallery.

Visit my skating journal

I took the Myers-Briggs 5 years ago but don't remember what I was. I do remember a different test that said I have a "promoter" type of personality, which may be why I enjoy teaching so much. I only promote things I am into myself, and I really do push them whenever I can.

__________________

Hmm, interesting point! We aren't just skaters, we're skaters who like having our conversations over the Internet, somewhere where we can just post and run! Of course it's also unusual that we have almost as many Intuitive types as Sensing types so far (Intuitives being only 25% of the population). Then again, Intuitive types tend to gravitate towards subjects like, "What's your personality type and what does it mean?" LOL!

__________________
"You don't have to put an age limit on your dreams." - Dara Torres, 41, after her 2nd medal at the 2008 Olympics

I've taken it before and changed types... if I took it again I wouldn't be suprised if I got a different one again....

__________________
~
Tidesong

Perhaps the nature of the sport?

Anyway, the term "introvert" here is supposed to refer to a person being more reflective... not necessarily in the social sense as the term is generally used for.

The following is quoted from http://www.myersbriggs.org/my-mbti-p...troversion.asp

"Extraversion and Introversion as terms used by C. G. Jung explain different attitudes people use to direct their energy. These words have a meaning in psychology that is different from the way they are used in everyday language."

__________________
~~~~~
Blog: http://chowskates.blogspot.com

Youtube Channel: http://www.youtube.com/chowskates
~~~~~

Actually, it's the Keirsey-Bates/Myers-Briggs test results themselves that indicate that 75% of the U.S. population tests as extroverted (I've heard that in Norway the majority of people test as Introverts). Introversion (according to these test result definitions) is a matter of whether you re-energize yourself by spending time alone or by spending time in a group of people, and whether you tend to be more focused on your internal thought processes or what is going on in the external environment.

I believe the "Promoter" is an ESTP (Extroverted, Sensing, Thinking, Perceiving)

__________________
"You don't have to put an age limit on your dreams." - Dara Torres, 41, after her 2nd medal at the 2008 Olympics

I haven't taken the test in a while, but the last time I did I came out as an INTP, a little opposite of what you might expect for this. On one hand, it could be reasonably claimed that one of the reasons I'm doing this is to try to address the "other side" of the personality type, so maybe it makes sense to be going against the grain. On the other hand, my second job (proofreading) and two of my other hobbies (battles with historical model soldiers and photography) are activities in which nitpicky attention to detail is a useful trait, so maybe this is more of the same. (You'd think from that that I'd test out as an S, but at my regular job I'm definitely an N ... )

Rob

I am ISTJ

I voted singles and dance as well

INFJ; singles and dance. I do artistic numbers sometimes, but didn't check that.

It does seem like we're mostly introverts so far - I wonder whether you'd get different results if synchro skaters were included?

Currently INTJ - and dance

__________________
"Every revolutionary idea seems to evoke three stages of reaction. They may be summed up by the phrases:
(1) It's completely impossible.
(2) It's possible, but it's not worth doing.
(3) I said it was a good idea all along."
- Arthur C Clarke

feeling - pairs and interp.

__________________
Recycle Love - Adopt a homeless pet

So at what point do we start to correlate which type you are and how that relates to what discipline we are drawn to?

Who wants to do the stats on that?????

icedancer2, definitely INFJ!!

LOVE dance, Moves, figures... don't want to do freestyle, although I do think about it sometimes, probably since I have to judge it...

__________________
Is Portland the only city with it's own ice-dance website? http://www.pdxicedance.net/

Usually test INFJ, but am absolutely borderline T/F and pretty much so on I/E and J/P....

Ice dancer, please. Also enjoy moves. AND Interp.

__________________
Mrs Redboots
~~~~~~~~
I love my computer because my friends live in it!
Ice dancers have lovely big curves!

78% Introvert
12% Sensing
12% Feeling
33% Judging

Competitive Singles and Ice dance. Love practicing MITF, hate testing them!

__________________
"Without a struggle, there can be no progress" ~ Frederick Douglass

Let's get some more data first, to give all the P's a chance to answer, LOL! But it's definitely interesting how many introverts we've got. We also seem to have more Judging types (goal-oriented personalities) so far, although we've also got a fair number of Perceiving types (go-with-the-flow types). And if we end up with more than 25% Intuitives (those more interested in theory and meaning rather than the facts and events themselves), then that would be an interesting trend as well. Of course the hard part will be figuring out how much of the data is skating-related and how much is Internet discussion group related.
BTW, it's nice to see some other INFJ's here! (Mrs. R., I'm also pretty much on the border of T/F, but a little more to the Feeling side.) Each of the 4 Introverted + Intuitive (IN) personality types only comprises 2% of the population, so we IN's sometimes feel like we're visiting from an alien planet when we're around Extroverted or Sensing people.

__________________
"You don't have to put an age limit on your dreams." - Dara Torres, 41, after her 2nd medal at the 2008 Olympics

Man are all of us introverted??

BlackManSkating

__________________
Proud to be one of the few black men out on the ice

Goals
Pass my Silver Moves Test
Finish Choreography for Silver Program
Land a Clean Double Toe and Double Lutz
Work on Double Axel and Rockers
Speed up back Camel

I'm not introverted!! I came up as ESFP last time I did the test approx 3 years ago. I guess it explains why I get really bored practising on my own during patch sessions and respond much better in a lesson, whether 1-1 or group. As for what type of skater I am - I just like skating, not really at the stage where I can pick and choose what discipline to follow. But - as someone who enjoys others' company, maybe synchro would be best, shame I have no co-ordination and jump and spin the opposite way to everyone else!!!

I got INFP.

Definitly the more reflective type and not much of a team player.

I like a bit of everything so do dance and free, test and compete in both and quite like MITF (or 'skating moves' as they now are in the UK). Also have done group artistics and enjoy performing in the annual show.

Other personality tests have shown I am an ideas person and a 'starter' but definitely not a 'completer/finisher' - maybe why I get impatient with what I see as the pernicketyness of ice dance compulsories - but I love free dance.

Skating is one of the ways I recharge my energy since it requires total concentration and I'm not able to think about anything else at the same time.

I'm an ISFJ (and in the Star Trek version of the test I therefore "share a basic personality configuration with the characters of Beverly Crusher and Chakotay." ( I'm a geek, I know it))

I definitely love freestyle and really like skating in my own little world, so I guess that makes sense. And my goal is to just get into the artistic and interperative side of skating. I want to advance, yes, but I'm more into the arty side of skating than the actual "sport" side of it.

__________________
When asked what his "secret" to success was, Wayne Gretsky said: "Skate to where the puck is going and not to where it has been."
Is the figure skating version of this: Skate as if you're doing an axel and not just learning how to hop?