Your Type Test

The Your Type Test is an interactive self-discovery experience that maps your romantic preferences from your own snap judgments. Instead of asking you to describe your type in words, it shows you 50 photographs of people and asks a single, concrete question about each: imagining you were single and looking for a long-term partner, would you date this person? Your pattern of answers, rather than your self-image, reveals the type you are actually drawn to.

The people you rate are not a parade of magazine faces. The gallery was assembled to mirror the actual variety of American adults aged 18 to 35, anchored to the demographic profile of a large, well-known American social survey: age, background, build, and walk of life all vary the way they do in the real dating pool. That realism is what lets the test read your taste as it operates in the world, rather than your taste in professionally styled photographs.

Before the photo ratings begin, the test asks who you are attracted to. Based on your answer, you will rate women, men, or a balanced mixture of both. The 50 portraits you see are drawn from a larger stratified pool designed to vary systematically in age, ancestry, build, and conventional attractiveness, so that your ratings can separate what genuinely moves your judgment from what does not.

The gallery is organized around thirteen recognizable dating-scene styles. Some are subcultural: goth and alt, e-girl and e-boy, soft indie. Some are polished: preppy, corporate, the tech look, and the full-glam baddie. Others are grounded: sporty, traditional, blue-collar, the bookish intellectual, and the unapologetic nerd — plus the deliberately ordinary person next door, included as a baseline. Every style gets an equal hearing in the early portraits; as your ratings accumulate, the test begins showing you more of the looks you are warming to.

When you finish, the test compares your average ratings across these styles and identifies the one you warmed to most. The faces you rated highest within that style are shown as your main type, and your result describes the personality that tends to come with the look.

Your result also reports how selective you are compared with other people who date the same group you do. While this comparison is presented as a precise percentage, it is currently based on informed statistical estimates of how harshly people tend to rate strangers in photo-rating studies, not on validated population norms for this particular test. Treat it as a backdrop that helps you read your own result, not as an exact benchmark.

Finally, a note on what this test is and is not. Attraction research consistently finds that photographs capture only part of what draws people together: voice, movement, humor, and familiarity all shift real-world preferences. A photo-based test can reveal the visual component of your type with surprising clarity, but it cannot tell you whom you will love. Take your results as an entertaining, data-driven mirror of your first impressions.