Enneagram Matrix Test Explained
What is an Enneagram Matrix Test?
The Enneagram Matrix Test (EMT) is a comprehensive assessment designed to provide a holistic understanding of your personality by evaluating your core Enneagram type, wing types and TriCenter (your "instinctual stack" is tested separately). Unlike traditional Enneagram tests that focus solely on identifying your core type, the EMT delves deeper by exploring the nuances of your Enneagram profile, referred to as the 'Enneagram Matrix'. With about 150 meticulously crafted questions, the Enneagram Matrix test takes approximately 45 minutes to complete and offers A/B answer choices, ensuring a thorough and engaging assessment experience.
Why Taking an Enneagram Matrix Test?
The Enneagram Matrix Test (EMT) brings several key benefits that help individuals gain a deeper understanding of themselves. By identifying your core type, wing types, and Tri-Center, the test offers a nuanced view of your personality traits, motivations, and behavioral patterns. This comprehensive insight can lead to improved self-awareness, which in turn accelerates personal growth and development. Understanding your dominant Tri-Center allows you to recognize how you process information and make decisions, providing valuable guidance for both personal and professional situations. The test's depth makes it a powerful tool for enhancing relationships, as it helps you understand your interaction styles and emotional triggers, leading to more meaningful and harmonious connections with others in your personal life and more productive relationships at work.
Enneagram Matrix Test Step 1: Take the TestÂ
How to Get Started with the Free Enneagram Matrix Test: 3 Simple StepsÂ
Begin your journey by taking the Enneagram Matrix Test. The test is accessible online and takes approximately 45 minutes to complete. With around 150 questions featuring A/B answer choices, the test is designed to be engaging and introspective, guiding you to reflect on various aspects of your personality. Â
Enneagram Matrix Test Step 2: Receive Your Results
Upon completing the test, you will receive your Enneagram Matrix test results via email. These results will include three key elements: your core Enneagram type, your Enneagram wing, and your TriCenter combination. Sometimes, Enneagram test results can be INCONCLUSIVE, such as when two types, two wings, or two types within the same Tri-Center receive an equal number of points. This is not uncommon. When it happens, we advise taking each of the three tests separately on this website. Alternatively, an Enneagram coach can provide additional clarity.
If your Enneagram test is CONCLUSIVE, you can obtain detailed answers based on your Enneagram Matrix code. As this step is not automated, you will need to manually construct your Enneagram Matrix code. Here’s how:
- Structure: The Enneagram Matrix code is composed of three parts, with each part separated by an asterisk ("*"), like so: 3w4*3-7-8*sp-so-sx
- First Portion: This indicates your core Enneagram type combined with your wing. For example, if your test results indicate you are a Type 3 with a wing 4, it would be expressed as 3w4.
- Second Portion: This represents your Enneagram Tri-Center. For instance, a Tri-Center configuration of 3-7-8 means Type 3 is predominant in your heart center (emotions), Type 7 in your head center (cognitive functions), and Type 8 in your gut center (instincts).
- Third portion: This represents your "instinctual stack". For example, if your test results indicate your  instinctual type is predominantly "preserving" (sp), followed by "social" and "transmitting", your "social stack would be indicated as sp-so-sx.
Thus, the complete Enneagram Matrix code in this example would be 3w4*3-7-8*sp-so-sx, indicating a core Type 3 with a wing 4, a TriCenter configuration of 3, Â 7, and 8 and an instinctual stack of sp (preserving), so (social) and sx ("transmitting", also referred to as "sexual").
You can then provide this code to one of our dedicated AI Coaching assistants to generate an Enneagram report or ask questions about any area of life and work to obtain answers tailored to your specific situation and relevant to your unique Enneagram Matrix configuration. Please note that answers provided by our AI-Coaches are designed to be discussed and validated by a human Enneagram coach—for example during weekly Enneagram group discussions or in a one-on-one coaching session. Answers provided by AI Coaching Assistants can be incomplete, misleading, or sometimes even false, especially in documented cases of "AI hallucination" where the AI invents facts simply to satisfy a chat request. Therefore, always take answers provided by AI Coaching Assistants with a grain of salt until confirmed by a certified Enneagram expert.
By enrolling in one of our Enneagram Online Courses and AI-Powered Group Coaching Programs, you'll gain access to AI-assisted online courses, self-service AI-Coaches, human group coaching, and on-demand 1-on-1 coaching. Our AI Self-Coaching assistants are custom-made and personalized to your Enneagram Matrix, including your Core Type, Wing, TriCenter and Intelligence Centers. Engage in 1-on-1 conversations with your AI-Coaches to explore how your Enneagram Matrix influence your thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. Â This comprehensive approach will help you achieve personal and professional growth by fostering a deeper understanding of your Enneagram profile, your strengths and weaknesses.