Every couple thinks their story is one of a kind. This one checks. Answer eight quick questions — how you met, where you each started, how far apart you were, how long you’ve been together — and get a Love Story Rarity Score out of 100, built from published research on how US couples actually meet. Every point is explained and sourced, you get a story type and share cards made for Instagram, and it’s free with no sign-up.
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Plenty of quizzes will tell you there was a “1 in 4 million chance” you two met. That number cannot be calculated honestly, so we don’t print it. Instead your answers earn points on a transparent 0–100 index: answers that are common in the research earn few points, answers that cut against the pattern earn more. 0–30 is a classic story, 30–60 has some rare pieces, 60–80 is uncommon, and 80–100 is a very rare combination. Your result shows the exact points every answer earned, including the questions that earn zero.
How you met is scored against Stanford’s How Couples Meet and Stay Together study (Rosenfeld, Thomas & Hausen, PNAS 2019) — the dataset that tracked US couples from 1940 to 2017 and found online meeting rise from 2% to about 39%. Where you started and how far apart you were are scored against US Census Bureau geographic-mobility and foreign-born population data, Bossard’s 1932 propinquity study, and Bruch & Newman’s analysis of several million online daters. Each explanation on your result links to the paper or census table it came from.
Among US heterosexual couples who met in 2017, about 39% met online — it passed meeting through friends around 2013. Roughly 20% met through friends, 11% as coworkers, 7% through family, 5% in primary or secondary school and 4% in college. Note that these categories overlap by design: a couple who matched on an app and had a first date at a bar is counted in both, which is exactly why the shares can rank how common a way of meeting is but can’t be turned into odds.
Beyond the number you get a story type — “The Unexpected Adventure”, “The Wandering Romance”, “The Digital Collision” — drawn from how you met and what kind of couple you are, plus your day count together, the distance you crossed and what holds you together. Then swipe through five story-sized cards built for Instagram and TikTok, export a full-resolution story image in one tap, or send your partner a link that reproduces your exact report. Your answers ride in the link itself, so nothing is stored on a server.
It’s a 0–100 index of how unusual your love story is compared with published research on how couples actually meet. Answer eight questions about how you met, where you each started, how far apart you were and how long you’ve been together, and each answer earns points in inverse proportion to how common it is in the data. Common answers earn few points, unusual ones earn more. 0–30 is a classic story, 30–60 has some rare pieces, 60–80 is uncommon and 80–100 is a very rare combination.
Yes. The meeting-method scores come from Stanford’s How Couples Meet and Stay Together study (Rosenfeld, Thomas & Hausen, PNAS 2019), which tracked how US couples met from 1940 to 2017. The geography scores use US Census Bureau migration and foreign-born population data, plus the propinquity research from Bossard (1932) and Bruch & Newman’s analysis of millions of online daters (2019). Every result shows the exact points each answer earned and links to the source.
No — and that’s deliberate. Nobody can honestly calculate the probability that two specific people met, so we don’t pretend to. You’ll never see “you had a 1 in 40,000 chance.” The study categories behind the score overlap (a couple who matched on an app and had a first date at a bar counts in both), so the shares can rank how common something is but can’t be multiplied into a probability. We publish a transparent index instead.
Online. About 39% of US heterosexual couples who met in 2017 met online, up from 2% in 1995 — it overtook meeting through friends around 2013. Meeting through friends is now about 20%, coworkers about 11%, family introductions about 7%, and school about 5% for primary or secondary and 4% for college. Those figures are from Stanford’s HCMST study and describe couples who met in 2017, not all couples alive today.
Yes — the quiz, your full rarity score, the explanation of every point, the share cards and the shareable link are all free with no sign-up. Your answers never leave your device: they’re encoded straight into the share link, so there’s no account and nothing stored on a server.
Yes. Every result has a link that reproduces your exact report, so you can send it to your partner or post it. There are also five story-sized cards made for Instagram and TikTok, plus a one-tap Instagram story export.