PSL Scale Test

PSL is a 1–8 rating of facial attractiveness that grew out of looksmaxxing forums. The letters come from the names of three early forums (PUAhate, SlutHate and Lookism), but today "PSL" just means the scale. Its defining feature is that it is strict: 4 is the middle, 5 is already clearly good-looking, and 7–8 is reserved for the rarest faces, mostly top models.

That is very different from the everyday 1–10 scale, where people casually call an average face a 6 or 7. A useful rule of thumb is that PSL runs about two points lower than a typical 1–10 rating in the middle of the range.

PSL	Men	Women	Meaning
3	LTN	LTB	Low-tier normie / becky — slightly below average
4	MTN	MTB	Mid-tier — the average face
5	HTN	HTB	High-tier — clearly above average
6	Chadlite	Stacylite	Very attractive; stands out in most rooms
7	Chad	Stacy	Model-level
8	Gigachad	Gigastacy	Theoretical top of the scale; almost nobody is rated here

The forum labels below 3 are insults, so this test does not use them. "Normie" and "becky" simply mean an ordinary person. Many people also write half-steps such as "HTN–Chadlite", which is why the result shows a range as well as a single number.

Forum PSL ratings are opinions, and they swing with the photo and the rater. This test replaces the opinion with measurements:

1. It maps 478 landmarks on your face in your browser and corrects small head turns and tilts.
2. It scores eight areas — symmetry, eyes, jawline, proportions, facial thirds, golden ratio, dimorphism and harmony — against reference ranges for men or women.
3. It combines them into a 1–10 score calibrated so a typical photo lands around 6, then converts that to PSL: PSL = 4 + (score − 6) × 0.9. A 6/10 face is a PSL 4 (MTN/MTB); an 8/10 face is about PSL 5.8, the HTN–Chadlite border.

Because the formula is fixed, the same photo always gets the same PSL rating. The full method and weights are on the methodology page.

As a rough language for "how good-looking, compared with most people", it is useful, and it is popular because it forces honesty that a 1–10 scale does not. As a precise measurement, it is not. It mostly rates bone structure and harmony from one photo, it ignores skin, hair, style, expression and personality, and forum raters disagree with each other by a tier or more.

Treat a PSL result as a description of your facial geometry in one photo. Two straight-on photos taken the same way should land in the same tier; if they do not, the angle or lighting changed. Adding more photos to the test averages them and gives a steadier number.

Bone structure changes little after your early twenties, but a lot of what shifts a rating is not bone:

• Body fat. Lower facial fat sharpens the jawline and cheekbones, which feeds the jawline, proportions and dimorphism scores.
• Grooming. Brow shape, beard shape and a haircut that suits your face shape change how proportions read.
• Skin and sleep. Not measured here, but they change how people rate the same face.
• Photo setup. Eye-level camera, arm's length, neutral face — a bad angle can cost a whole tier.

To see which areas pull your score down, check the breakdown on your result, or try the looksmaxxing test, which ranks your features from strongest to weakest.