What's Your PSL Score?
Upload one front-facing photo. Your PSL score — measured from 478 facial landmarks, right in your browser — lands on a 0–8 scale.
Free while in beta, no sign-up. Your score is computed on your own device.
Analyze your face
Deterministic geometry, not an AI opinion. Runs entirely in your browser.
🔒 Your photo is read locally and scored on your own device. Nothing is uploaded to score it.
What Does PSL Actually Stand For?
Three different answers circulate, and it's worth knowing why.
The most common expansion is “Perceived Sexual Market Value” — this is what most rating sites use today. Some wikis instead define it as “Proportion, Size, Lineation.”
Historically, neither came first. PSL originally came from the initials of three now-defunct online forums where the scale developed in the early 2010s. The phrase-based expansions were attached later.
None of this changes what the number measures. It's a 0–8 facial-harmony scale that grew out of online looksmaxxing communities and spread through TikTok, Reddit, and Discord. It has no academic standing, no governing body, and no agreed-upon definition — which is exactly why different calculators give you different tiers for the same face.
Why Do PSL Calculators Disagree?
If you've tried more than one PSL tool, you've probably noticed the same face lands in different tiers. There's a reason, and it isn't that one of them is broken.
Most PSL calculators ask a model to look at your photo and estimate a number. Ask it twice and you can get two answers, and every site's model has its own idea of where the tiers sit. Here's how three well-known calculators split the same scores:
| Score | Calculator A | Calculator B | This site |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4.0 | Average | Average | Average |
| 5.0 | Above average | Above average | Above average |
| 5.5 | Above average | Near top-tier | Above average |
| 6.0 | Top tier | Top tier | Highly attractive |
| 6.5 | Top tier | Above top tier | Exceptional |
A 5.5 means “comfortably above average” on one site and “top 1%” on another. Neither is lying — they simply picked different cut-offs, and nothing holds an estimate in place.
This site doesn't estimate. Your PSL score is computed from measured distances and ratios on your face, run through the same formula every time. That's why the same photo returns the same score, and why the number you get here is still the number you get next month.
The PSL Tiers on This Site
| PSL | Tier | What it means |
|---|---|---|
| Below 3.5 | Below Average | Measured proportions sit further from the geometric targets this tool uses. |
| 3.5 – 4.7 | Average | Proportions land close to the middle of the range this tool measures. |
| 4.7 – 5.7 | Above Average | Several measured proportions sit closer to the targets than the middle band. |
| 5.7 – 6.5 | Highly Attractive | Most measured proportions sit near the targets, with little variation between them. |
| 6.5 and up | Exceptional | Measured proportions sit close to the targets across nearly every dimension. |
Boundaries are inclusive at the lower end: a score of exactly 4.7 sits in Above Average, not Average.
These bands are still being calibrated. The mapping from measurements to a 0–8 score is checked against real photos as they come in. In our current calibration set most faces land in Above Average or higher, which means the boundaries will tighten as the sample grows — not that most people are above average. Your measurements are exact; the tier is our current best reading of them.
We don't tell you what percentile you're in, and you should be skeptical of tools that do. A percentile requires a representative sample of the general population. What any of these tools actually has is a sample of people who chose to upload a selfie to a face-rating site — which is not the same population, and not a neutral one. Any “top 1%” claim built on that sample is measuring the sample, not the world.
How This Score Is Calculated
Your photo is processed entirely in your browser. A face-mesh model detects 478 landmarks, and a fixed formula measures distances, angles, and areas between them. That's the whole pipeline — no model is asked for an opinion about your face.
This is why the same photo always returns the same score. Ask an AI to rate a face twice and you can get two different numbers; a measurement doesn't work that way.
What you get is a range, not a single number. A photo carries real uncertainty — lens, distance, angle and lighting all shift the measurements. The range is ±0.25 for a clean photo and widens to ±0.4 when the photo trips one of our quality checks. A single decimal would look more precise than the input actually justifies.
What Kind of Photo Works
Front-facing, eyes level with the camera, hair off the forehead, even lighting, neutral expression, one face in frame.
A photo gets rejected when a required measurement can't be taken at all — head turned too far, image too soft, too dark or too bright, face cropped at the edge, or more than one face present. A rejection is the honest answer: a score built on an unmeasurable photo would just be a guess wearing a number.
Wide-angle selfies are the most common cause of a misleading result. Phone front cameras distort proportions at close range — same face, different numbers.
Questions People Ask About PSL Scores
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