howrare.me

How rare are you?

35 short tests. Your height percentile, a reaction time test, a typing test, an IQ percentile, average income by country. Each one puts your number next to real population data and shows where you land. No account.

How the numbers are calculated

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175 cm5 ft 9 in
39th percentile

Taller than 39% of men in the United States. About as average as it gets.

Normal distribution, mean 177.1 cm, SD 7.5. Source: NCD-RisC, adults born in 1996.

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  1. 01Reaction Time TestMedian 262 ms. Five clicks.
  2. 02Typing Speed TestAverage typist: 52 WPM.
  3. 03Height PercentileBy country and sex, NCD-RisC.
  4. 04IQ PercentileMean 100, SD 15.
  5. 05Hearing TestHighest pitch you can hear.
  6. 06Click Speed TestClicks per second, five seconds.

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Body

9

Mind

8

Skills

6

Money

2

Social

2

Time

3

Planet

2

Culture

3

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No test needed. These pages answer one question each from the same data the tests use.

Stats: Questions people search for, each with a number and a source.

Odd facts: Checkable facts with a year and a source. Sharks are older than trees.

Typing speed lookup: Is 70 WPM fast? Against Dhakal et al. (2018), n=168,000.

Sleep lookup: Is 7 hours of sleep normal? Against Sleep Cycle 2023 by country.

How this works

1. You enter a number or do a short test.

2. We place it on the distribution for your country and sex.

3. You get a percentile, the source, and the maths. Methodology

Odd facts

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Time

Cleopatra (born 69 BC) lived about 450 years closer in time to the Moon landing than to the completion of the Great Pyramid of Giza (c. 2560 BC).

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Time

If Earth's 4.54 billion years were compressed into 24 hours, Homo sapiens (about 300,000 years old) would show up in the last 6 seconds.

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Space

Every atom of iron in your blood was made inside stars that died before the Sun existed. Stars like the Sun cannot make iron at all.

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