The PSL scale is a rating scale for looks from online forums, commonly written from 0 to 8. This tool is not one: its total also runs from 1 to 8, but it is worked out from 478 measured points on your face and is not an official PSL score.
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According to Know Your Meme, the PSL scale was conceived and developed on now-defunct manosphere forums, and the name abbreviates three of them: PUAhate, Sluthate and Lookism. The Conversation, reprinted by the Cobb County Courier, likewise describes PSL as an abbreviation of three defunct online incel forums. A later explanation, “Proportion, Size, Lineation”, also circulates. People post a photo and others rate it with a number. There is no single standard: the range is commonly 0 to 8 with named tiers, other communities use ten points, and the numbers do not map onto each other. Both sources call it pseudoscientific.
FaceTiers does not rate you on that scale. It measures canthal tilt, jaw angle and the facial thirds, with two more proportions, from 478 points on your photo, and turns them into a total from 1 to 8 in steps of 0.5, with one of four bands. The range looks alike; that is all. The total is our own, it is not an official PSL score, and it is not converted into PSL numbers.
Photo to photo, the same face can move by about a point on this total, because light, lens height and expression move the points the model finds. A single number should not be read as a fixed fact about a face.
The example face on this site reads 4.0 on the FaceTiers total, in the Balanced band. That is not “4.0 PSL”. PSL numbers are opinions typed into forums, with no formula behind them, and no mapping from our bands to PSL numbers exists, so none is given here.
| Aspect | PSL scale | FaceTiers total |
|---|---|---|
| Range | Commonly 0 to 8; some communities use ten points | 1 to 8, in steps of 0.5 |
| Comes from | Online forums; Know Your Meme: now-defunct manosphere forums | A fixed calculation on 478 measured points |
| Based on | People's opinion of a photo | Canthal tilt, jaw angle, the facial thirds and two more proportions |
| Tiers | Named tiers; the numbers differ between communities | Four bands: Rising below 3.7, Balanced 3.7 to 4.5, Sculpted 4.5 to 5.3, Striking above 5.3 |
| Repeatable | No: depends on who rates | Yes for one photo; another photo of the same face can differ by about a point |
| Status | Called pseudoscientific by Know Your Meme and The Conversation | A measurement of proportions in one photo, for entertainment; not an official PSL score |
PSL abbreviates three online forums that no longer exist: PUAhate, Sluthate and Lookism (Know Your Meme). The Conversation, reprinted by the Cobb County Courier, describes it as an abbreviation of three defunct online incel forums. A later explanation, “Proportion, Size, Lineation”, is also in circulation.
There is no single answer. Know Your Meme lists a scale from 0 to 8 with named tiers, running from “Low Subhuman” below 0.5 to “True Adam / True Eve” at 7.8 to 7.9, but other communities place the numbers differently and some use ten points. A PSL number is one community's opinion, not a measurement.
No. Know Your Meme calls it “a systematic pseudoscientific framework”, and The Conversation, reprinted by the Cobb County Courier, calls it “a pseudoscientific attractiveness rating system”. It is a community scale.
No. Sources describe PSL as running from 0 to 8, while other communities talk in ten points, with no agreed conversion between them. The total on FaceTiers runs from 1 to 8 and comes from measured proportions; it is neither a PSL score nor a rating out of ten.
There is no official PSL rating for an AI to be accurate against: PSL is a scale of forum opinions. A tool that prints a “PSL” number has made up its own mapping. FaceTiers does not: its total is on its own 1–8 scale, from measured proportions, and it says so. It also moves by about a point between photos of the same face.
The tool on this site is for adults, aged 18 and over. If you are younger, please do not use it.
