How do I rate my face online?

Upload a clear, front-facing photo to the test at the top of this page. In a few seconds you get a score out of 10, a tier, your standing among reference faces, four feature scores and the lowest-scoring of the four.

Is this face rater accurate?

It measures consistently: the same photo returns the same numbers, and the raw measurements behind each score are ratios and angles you can check on your own face. How much any one person likes a face varies with their taste and culture, and no photo test can predict that. For the steadiest read, take your photos the same way each time.

How do you know if you are attractive?

Two kinds of evidence help. Measurements, such as proportion and symmetry, are what a photo test reads. Reactions are how people respond to you in person over time. This test covers the first. For the second, watch how the people who know you respond, which tells you more than any single rating.

Is there an attractiveness test for men?

This one works for men and women. It reads the same four features on any face, and your result shows each feature's score next to its reference range.

Why is my score lower than I expected?

Start with the photo. A close-range selfie or a head turned slightly to one side can throw off the measurements. Retake it using the setup in "Why the same face gets different scores" and compare. If the score holds, look at the feature your result names.

Can ChatGPT rate my face?

Yes. ChatGPT has been able to read photos since 2023, and it will give you a number and comments. The number tends to shift with how you word the request, which makes it hard to compare over time. This test gives the same result for the same photo, so before-and-after comparisons hold up.

Will the same photo always get the same score?

Yes. Every step is a fixed calculation. A different photo can score differently when the camera distance or head angle changes.

What kind of photo works best?

A front-facing photo with your head level, a neutral expression and even light from the front, taken from about 5 feet away if you can, with no filter. Keep hair and glasses clear of your eyes and jawline so the test can find the points it needs.

Can I use it to pick a dating profile photo?

You can compare several photos, and the highest score marks the one where your proportions read most clearly. A profile photo also shows expression, style and setting, so weigh those too.

Is the attractiveness test free?

Yes. Your score, tier, your standing among reference faces, four feature scores and the lowest-scoring of the four are all free.

Is my photo uploaded?

The analysis runs in your browser, on your own device. The privacy policy lists exactly what the site receives.

Am I ugly, or is it just the photo?

A photo test can't tell you whether you are ugly. It measures the geometry of one photo, and much of what people react to in person, like expression, voice and style, never shows up in it. What a photo can do is make you look worse than you are: close-range selfies, light from one side and a head turned away from the camera all distort a face, and most people judge their looks from their mirror image, which is not the face other people see (see the next question). If you want a number anyway, take one photo under the conditions in "Why the same face gets different scores" and read the result as a description of that photo.

Is it true people see you as 20% more attractive than you think?

The 20% figure has no study behind it that we could trace. It circulates on blogs and social posts, often linked to a 2020 virtual-reality study that measured something else. The idea points to something real, though: you and other people judge different versions of your face. You mostly see yourself in a mirror, flipped left to right, and a 1977 study found people prefer their mirror image while their friends prefer the unflipped one (Mita, Dermer & Knight, 1977). Selfies taken about a foot from the face also make the nose look wider than it does from 5 feet away, roughly the distance of a normal conversation (Ward et al., 2018). So the gap between the face you judge and the face others see is real, even though the 20% figure has nothing behind it.

Attractiveness Test: How Attractive Am I?

Q: Is 6.5 or 7 out of 10 attractive?

On this test, both land in the Appealing tier, which runs from 6.0 to 7.7 and is the most common tier among reference faces. The Attractive tier starts at 7.8. Other sites set their lines elsewhere, so compare raw measurements across tools only when they measure them the same way.

Upload one front-facing photo. You get an attractiveness score out of 10, a breakdown of four facial features, and which of the four scores lowest.

Free to use. The analysis runs on your own device.

Analyze your face

Measured from 478 facial landmarks with fixed formulas. Runs entirely in your browser.

Drag a photo here, or click to choose one

JPEG or PNG. Front-facing, well-lit, one face per photo.

Or try an example

Ready.

For a good result

Face the camera directly, front-on
Good, even lighting on your face
Only your face in frame, not cropped at the chin or forehead
A sharp, in-focus photo

Your photo is read locally and scored on your own device. Nothing is uploaded to score it.

The Attractiveness Scale: What Your Score Out of 10 Means

Your score is a number from 0 to 10 with one decimal place. If you came here to rate your looks 1-10, this is that number. It combines four feature scores into one figure, and the same photo always returns the same score.

Every score lands in one of five tiers.

Score	Tier	What it means
9.5–10	Exceptional	The highest tier. Few faces reach it, even in clear, front-facing photos.
7.8–9.4	Attractive	Well above the most common tier. Your result names the lowest of your four feature scores, the one with the most room left.
6.0–7.7	Appealing	The most common tier among clear, front-facing photos. Your result names the lowest of your four feature scores. That is the place to start.
5.0–5.9	Rising	Several features have room to move, starting with the one your result names.
Below 5.0	Foundation	Scores this low usually come from the photo: a small head turn that still passes the photo check can pull the numbers down. Retake it facing the camera straight on first.

Your result also shows how your score compares with 1000+ reference faces.

Is 6.5 or 7 out of 10 attractive? Both land in the Appealing tier, the most common tier among real front-facing photos, and the Attractive tier starts at 7.8. Other sites draw their tier lines in other places, so a 6.5 here and a 6.5 elsewhere can describe different faces. When you compare tools, look past the totals to the raw measurements, such as jaw width to cheekbone width. A raw ratio can be compared across tools that measure it the same way; a tier label cannot.

The five tiers line up with the PSL scale, an 8-point rating scale used in looksmax communities.

How the PSL scale splits the same range

What the Test Measures: Four Facial Features

Your score is built from four features. Each one gets its own score out of 10, shown as a bar in your result.

Harmony · 32% of the score

Nine proportions across the whole face, including face width to height, the three vertical thirds, eye spacing and mouth width. Each is scored against its own reference range, and your result card shows the face width to height ratio.

Width to height also feeds the face shape test

Symmetry · 26%

How much the left half of your face differs from a mirrored copy of the right half, averaged across regions. Smaller differences score higher.

See your symmetry region by region

Eye area · 21%

Five measurements: canthal tilt (the angle from the inner to the outer corner of each eye, reference 4° to 8° upward), eye shape, eye spacing, the gap between brow and eye, and how closely the two eyes match in size.

Measure your canthal tilt in degrees

Jawline · 21%

Five measurements: jaw width to cheekbone width (reference 0.75 to 0.85), chin width, the lower third of the face, the curve of the jaw, and how centered the chin is.

Your result names the lowest-scoring of the four. That is the one to look at first.

How the AI Attractiveness Test Works

1.Find the face.

An AI face-landmark model places 478 points on your face, covering the eye corners, brows, nose, lips and jawline.

2.Measure.

The points are converted into distances, angles and ratios, and each one is compared with its reference range.

3.Score.

The four feature scores are weighted and combined into one number out of 10.

All three steps run in your browser, on your own device. Every step is a fixed calculation, so the same photo gets the same score every time. A different photo of you scores differently only when the geometry in it changes, and the next section covers what changes it.

Why the Same Face Gets Different Scores

"I used my best picture and got like a 6, then took a crappy selfie and got a 9.8." Complaints like this come up again and again in Reddit threads about face-rating tools. In most cases the face stayed the same and the photo changed.

Same face, four photos: 8.7–9.0

We ran five everyday photos of the same person through the test. Four of them, taken on a sunny sidewalk, against a plain wall, in an office under ceiling lights, and by a bedroom window with strong side light, scored 8.7, 8.9, 8.9 and 9.0. That is a spread of 0.3 points, within the test's margin of error.

Lighting, background, makeup and expression changed how these photos looked far more than they changed the score.

Four photos of the same person scoring between 8.7 and 9.0, with a total score spread of 0.3 points

The fifth photo, a slight head turn: 8.9 → 8.2

The fifth photo, a close-up selfie at home, scored 8.2, against 8.9 for the plain-wall photo. The test measured about 6.6° of head turn, and Symmetry changed the most, falling from 9.6 to 8.0, the same pattern the head-angle row below describes.

A head turn can change the geometry the camera sees. One side of the face sits closer to the lens, so the two halves may no longer line up the way they do in a straight-on photo. For a more repeatable result, face the camera directly and keep your head level.

Comparison of a front-facing photo scoring 8.9 and a slightly turned photo scoring 8.2, with symmetry falling from 9.6 to 8.0

What changed	What it does	Which scores move	What to do
Camera distance	Close-range selfies make the nose and middle of the face look wider (Ward et al., 2018)	Harmony, jawline	Prop the phone about 5 feet (1.5 m) away and use the timer, or at least hold it at full arm's length
Head angle	Turning the head to one side shifts where the points land	Symmetry, eye area	Face the camera straight on, head level
Lighting	Strong light from one side hides half the face; studies find faces are rated lower once the light moves far off to the side	Whether the photo passes the check	Face a window or another source of even light
Expression	A smile lifts the eye corners and widens the lower face	Eye area, jawline	Keep a relaxed, neutral face for the measurement

Before measuring, the test checks your photo for head angle, sharpness and exposure. If your photo doesn't pass, the test tells you why.

To compare scores over time, try to keep two things the same: the distance to the camera, and a straight-on, level head. That keeps your scores consistent from one test to the next.

After Your Score: What Actually Moves It

Research points to a handful of changes that shift how attractive people find a face, none of them medical. Some move your score on this test. Others change how people see you in person, outside what a photo can measure. Both are below.

If this is your lowest score

Harmony

Check the photo first: Harmony reads proportions across the whole face, so camera distance moves it more than any other score. A selfie from arm's length or closer widens the middle of the face (Ward et al., 2018). Retake it from about 5 feet away with the timer.

Beyond the photo: These proportions come mostly from bone structure.

Symmetry

Check the photo first: A head turned even slightly to one side reads as asymmetry, because one half of the face is closer to the camera. A sideways head tilt does not count against you, since the test measures from a center line that follows the tilt. A lopsided smile does, so keep a neutral face.

Beyond the photo: Every face has small differences between its halves. The face symmetry test breaks yours down region by region.

Face symmetry test

Eye area

Check the photo first: Squinting, a wide smile or raised brows change your eye shape and the gap between brow and eye. Look into the lens with your eyes fully open and your face relaxed.

Beyond the photo: Brows are the one part of this score you can reshape directly; the brow card below has the research. The canthal tilt test measures the angle of your eyes on its own.

Canthal tilt test

Jawline

Check the photo first: Tilting your chin up or down changes the lower-third and jaw-curve readings. Keep your head level. Hair or a scarf over the jaw edge can also throw the points off.

Beyond the photo: The jaw is mostly bone structure. The face shape test shows how your jaw width compares with your cheekbones.

Face shape test

Moves how people see you

Sleep.

In a 2017 study, strangers rated people slightly less attractive after two nights of about four hours' sleep than after normal sleep (Sundelin et al., 2017). An earlier study in the BMJ found a similar drop after a single night without sleep (Axelsson et al., 2010).

A real smile.

Smiling is one of the most studied cues in attractiveness research, and most of that work finds it helps. A smile also changes your eye and jaw measurements, so keep a neutral face for this test and smile everywhere else.

Even skin tone.

Faces with more even color are rated healthier and more attractive (Fink et al., 2012). Daily sunscreen and a steady skincare routine are the everyday habits that protect it.

Groomed brows.

Brows are one of the few facial features you can reshape directly, and studies find brow shape affects how attractive a face is rated (Baker et al., 2007).

The ratios this test reads come mostly from bone structure, so some of your four scores will stay close to where they are. Your result shows where the largest gap is, and the list above covers what you can change starting today.

Five ways compared

Rate My Face: Five Ways to Find Out How Attractive You Are

Most people who ask "am I attractive" try more than one of these. Each answers a slightly different question.

This test

Four measured features

Other ways

Strangers online, friends, chatbots, other online tests

Same photo, same score: This test — Every time. Each step is a fixed calculation.; Other ways — A chatbot's score shifts with how you phrase the question, and a Reddit rating depends on who happens to reply.
What drove the number: This test — Four feature scores, each with a key measurement and a reference range or target.; Other ways — Many online tests give one number with no breakdown.
Where to start: This test — Names the lowest of the four features.; Other ways — Comments on r/Rateme drift into personality or dating, and a single score from other tests does not show where to begin.
Honest by design: This test — A calculation has no reason to flatter you.; Other ways — Friends are kind by default, and "ChatGPT loves to glaze" is a common verdict on Reddit.
Whose taste: This test — Measured geometry, compared with reference ranges.; Other ways — Many online tests predict a rating from photos people already scored, so the result carries those raters' tastes.
Photo check: This test — Checks head angle, sharpness and exposure first and tells you what to fix.; Other ways — A chatbot or a stranger will still rate a turned-away, badly lit selfie.
Your photo: This test — The analysis runs on your own device.; Other ways — Chatbots upload your photo to their servers, and a rating subreddit makes it public.

This test measures facial geometry. In a photo, people also see your skin, style and expression, and in person, your presence.

About friends and your own eyes: you mostly see your face in a mirror, flipped left to right, while everyone else sees it unflipped. A 1977 study found people prefer the mirror image of their own face, while their friends prefer the true one (Mita, Dermer & Knight, 1977).

The most useful answer combines two of these: a measurement you can repeat, and the views of people whose opinion matters to you.

Where Attractiveness Tests Came From, and the Types Used Today

Rating faces online is older than the smartphone. People voted first, then models learned from their votes, then chatbots joined in.

1990
Psychologists found that faces blended together by computer were rated more attractive than almost any of the single faces used to make them (Langlois & Roggman, 1990).
Langlois and Roggman, 1990. Abstract on Semantic Scholar.
2000
Hot or Not launched in October 2000 and let visitors score uploaded photos from 1 to 10.
2003
Facemash put two student photos side by side and asked which one was more attractive.
2006
A study trained a model on human beauty ratings and reached a 0.65 correlation with average human judgments (Eisenthal, Dror & Ruppin, 2006).
2016
Beauty.AI ran the first beauty contest judged by AI and drew about 6,000 entries. Most of its winners were white, and the organizers said the training data had too few darker-skinned faces.
2018
Public research datasets followed, such as SCUT-FBP5500: 5,500 faces, each rated by 60 volunteers.
2023
ChatGPT gained the ability to read uploaded images in September 2023. Asking a chatbot to rate your selfie out of 10 has since become a recurring trend on TikTok and YouTube Shorts, and Google's Gemini gets the same request.
2024
Fortune reported on the "looksmaxxing" app economy. The founder of one face-scoring app said it had passed 7 million downloads, and that most of its users were men aged 16 to 45. Psychologists quoted in the piece raised concerns about what constant scoring does to young men's body image.
Fortune, July 1, 2024.

Today's tests reach a number in one of four ways.

Kind	How it gets a number	Examples
Crowd ratings	People look at your photo and vote	Rating subreddits, peer-rating sites
Model predictions	A model trained on photos people already rated guesses the rating yours would get	Most sites and apps sold as an "AI attractiveness test"
Geometric measurement	Points on the face become ratios, compared with reference ranges	This test
Chatbots	A general AI looks at your selfie and gives an opinion	ChatGPT, Gemini

Many tools mix two of these. Knowing which one produced your score tells you what it actually measures.

What a Photo Can and Can't Tell You

A photo can show proportion, spacing and symmetry, and research ties those to attractiveness. A 2006 review of the evidence found that averageness, symmetry and sex-typical features are rated attractive in both men and women, across cultures (Rhodes, 2006).

A single still photo leaves out close-up skin texture, how your face moves when you speak, your voice, your style, and the warmth people feel toward someone they know. Those shape how people see you in person.

A photo test can compare you with a fixed set of faces. Your result shows where your score sits among reference faces measured the same way. That describes how your photo compares with those faces; how people react to you in person is a separate question.

Many tools lean on the golden ratio. Its best-known version, Stephen Marquardt's "phi mask", was criticized in a 2008 surgery journal for fitting mostly white fashion models (Holland, 2008). This test scores each ratio against its own reference range.

If your score came back lower than you hoped: it describes the geometry of one photo. A different distance or head angle can move it, and much of what people notice about you in person sits outside it. Start with the photo setup and the feature your result names, then retest the same way.

Attractiveness Test FAQ

References

Sources cited on this page, with the claim each one supports.

1. Langlois, J. H., & Roggman, L. A. "Attractive Faces Are Only Average." Psychological Science, 1990.
Computer-blended faces are rated more attractive than almost any single face used to make them.
2. Eisenthal, Y., Dror, G., & Ruppin, E. "Facial Attractiveness: Beauty and the Machine." Neural Computation, 18(1), 2006, 119-142.
A 2006 study trained a model on human beauty ratings and reached a 0.65 correlation with average human judgments.
3. Xie, D., Liang, L., Jin, L., Xu, J., & Li, M. "SCUT-FBP5500: A Diverse Benchmark Dataset for Multi-Paradigm Facial Beauty Prediction." arXiv:1801.06345, 2018.
SCUT-FBP5500 contains 5,500 faces, each rated by 60 volunteers.
4. Levin, Sam. "A beauty contest was judged by AI, and the robots didn't like dark skin." The Guardian, 2016-09-08.
Beauty.AI ran the first beauty contest judged by AI, drew about 6,000 entries, and most winners were white due to a training-data gap.
5. OpenAI. "GPT-4V(ision) System Card." 2023-09-25.
ChatGPT gained the ability to read uploaded images in September 2023.
6. Sternlicht, Alexandra. "Inside the 'looksmaxxing' economy: Jawbone microfractures, expensive hairspray, and millions to be made off male insecurities." Fortune, 2024-07-01.
Fortune reported the app had passed 7 million downloads, most users were men aged 16 to 45, and psychologists raised body-image concerns.
7. Mita, T. H., Dermer, M., & Knight, J. "Reversed Facial Images and the Mere-Exposure Hypothesis." Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 35(8), 1977, 597-601.
A 1977 study found people prefer their mirror image while their friends prefer the unflipped one.
8. Rhodes, G. "The Evolutionary Psychology of Facial Beauty." Annual Review of Psychology, 57, 2006, 199-226.
A 2006 review found averageness, symmetry and sex-typical features are rated attractive in both men and women, across cultures.
9. Holland, E. "Marquardt's Phi Mask: Pitfalls of Relying on Fashion Models and the Golden Ratio to Describe a Beautiful Face." Aesthetic Plastic Surgery, 2008.
The phi mask is fitted mainly to white fashion models and adapts poorly to other ethnicities.
10. Ward, B., Ward, M., Fried, O., & Paskhover, B. "Nasal Distortion in Short-Distance Photographs: The Selfie Effect." JAMA Facial Plastic Surgery, 2018.
Selfies taken about a foot from the face make the nose look wider than it does from 5 feet away.
11. Sundelin, T., Lekander, M., Sorjonen, K., & Axelsson, J. "Negative Effects of Restricted Sleep on Facial Appearance and Social Appeal." Royal Society Open Science, 4, 2017, 160918.
Strangers rated people slightly less attractive after two nights of about four hours' sleep than after normal sleep.
12. Axelsson, J., Sundelin, T., Ingre, M., Van Someren, E. J. W., Olsson, A., & Lekander, M. "Beauty Sleep: Experimental Study on the Perceived Health and Attractiveness of Sleep Deprived People." BMJ, 341, 2010, c6614.
An earlier BMJ study found a similar drop in perceived attractiveness after a single night without sleep.
13. Fink, B., Grammer, K., & Matts, P. J. et al. "Colour Homogeneity and Visual Perception of Age, Health and Attractiveness of Male Facial Skin." Journal of the European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology, 2012.
Faces with more even color are rated healthier and more attractive.
14. Hernandez, C. A., Espinal, J. M., Uribe Zapata, D., Coimbra, D., Alfertshofer, M., Frank, K., Green, J. B., Davidovic, K., Gavril, D. L., & Cotofana, S. "The Influence of Different Light Angles During Standardized Patient Photographic Assessment on the Aesthetic Perception of the Face." Aesthetic Plastic Surgery, 2021.
Faces lit from far off to one side get lower attractiveness ratings.
15. Baker, S. B., Dayan, J. H., Crane, A., & Kim, S. "The Influence of Brow Shape on the Perception of Facial Form and Brow Aesthetics." Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, 119(7), 2007, 2240-2247.
Brow shape affects how attractive a face is rated.
16. Valuch, C., Pelowski, M., Peltoketo, V.-T., Hakala, J., & Leder, H. "Let's Put a Smile on That Face: A Positive Facial Expression Improves Aesthetics of Portrait Photographs." Royal Society Open Science, 10(10), 2023, 230413.
Smiling is one of the most studied cues in attractiveness research, and most of that work finds it helps.
17. Google AI Edge. "Face landmark detection guide."
An AI face-landmark model places 478 points on the face, covering eye corners, brows, nose, lips and jawline.
18. Neyret, A., Bellido Rivas, A. I., Navarro, X., & Slater, M. "Which Body Would You Like to Have? The Impact of Embodied Perspective on Body Perception and Body Evaluation in Immersive Virtual Reality." Frontiers in Robotics and AI, 2020-03-18.
The "20% more attractive" figure has no traceable study behind it; it is often wrongly linked to this VR study, which measured something else.