Summary: Most guys who use a 10 point scale to rank women are doing it wrong. While there is always some amount of subjectivity involved, there are some best practices that can help everyone get on the same page. This comes with many benefits, the greatest being that you won’t pedestalize a girl as easily. If anybody thinks my scale is wrong, challenge it. Mine is probably not perfect.

Body: Intro: Something I've always noticed is a source of arguments and misunderstandings among guys in general is that we naturally default to a ten point system to rate women's physical attractiveness. While this is as good a system as any other, I find it's wildly misapplied and misunderstandings abound. Your 8 might be my 6, and my 6 might be another guy's 4. So, I'm going to attempt to inject a little objectivity into what is by its nature a subjective endeavor.

Defining terms clears up thinking:

First, ask yourself - what is the ten point system? To me, it is a system that should give us a quick and dirty idea of where women fall in comparison to ALL OTHER WOMEN in a population. You'll find that a lot of guys actually aren't doing this. They rank the girl in comparison to other girls they're used to seeing or interacting with. This corrupts the scale because we all have different experiences. A pro athlete is probably fucking hotter girls than a garbageman, so the pro baller's 5 is probably the garbageman's 8 - 10. So, how do we get away from this? The 10 point scale should be a bell curve based on the entire female population.

So what does this mean? For those of you who don't know what a bell curve is, read the appendix note at the end of the post, and then kick the shit out of whoever was responsible for your education. In a nutshell it means that, if you rank a whole population of people for an attribute, most people will be roughly clustered around the average, and the further away you get from the average, the fewer results you find. Using the entire population to create the standard means I have a good idea of what you’re talking about, and also prevents you from over ranking some random basic bitch you just met, knocking them off the pedestal.

My 10 PT Scale

10: The pinnacle.* The most beautiful women in Hollywood, top models, etc. You’ve probably never met one.

*9: Truly Beautiful. Makes a good living off her looks. Generally has done legit modeling work and/or acting in actual major productions. You’ve probably still never met one.

*8: Super Hot. Probably the hottest girl you’ve ever met. Many guys are too intimidated to approach even an 8, let alone a 9 or 10. Many instagram “models” are high 8’s.

*7: Hot. The hottest, most popular girls in your school were probably solid 7’s. They get hit on more than any other group because they’re the hottest girls that actually feel attainable to guys.

*6: Cute. She’s the cute girl next door. There’s nothing exceptional in her features, and it’s easy to pick out her flaws, but she’s young and well put together overall. Also hit on a LOT for the same reasons as the 7s. The girl in the thread who wrote an article in Cosmo about how hot she is and guys won’t leave her alone because she’s just sooooo beautiful? Yeah, a 6.

*5: Dead on Average: Not ugly, but doesn’t stand out. She’s average, and a lot of us fuck more 5s than we realize.

*4-1: Varying degrees of unattractive. Nobody really cares about them, so let’s not make this post too long.

APPENDIX: The bell curve, a quick explanation and application

Example - human male height. The average height is roughly 5'10, and most people really aren't too far away from that. I'd say the vast majority of men are between 5'7 and 6'1. As you get shorter and shorter, and taller and taller, you see fewer and fewer examples. How many guys do you know that are 5'0 or 7'0? This is actually pretty intuitive if you think about it.

Bringing this full circle, there are a LOT more 5's than 8 - 10's. A 10 to me should be very, very rare, a truly exceptional specimen. Among basketball players, from kids all the way up, a 10 would be DWade, Lebron, etc. How many athletes of that caliber have you ever met? You might never have met even a 9 athlete, who would be a regular pro, and if you have you probably went to a particular place for that very purpose. You didn't run across him randomly.

So, who's to say you've ever met a girl who is a 9 or 10? If you live outside NYC or LA, London, Paris, etc, your chances are pretty low. Girls that good looking make their living in occupations where beauty is the price of admission, and that tends to be in fashion and entertainment, industries which are only in a few major cities. So, when I see stories about guys claiming some boopsie they're trying to bang is a 9.5, I roll my eyes. She's a 9.5 compared to the other girls you've fucked, not overall.

Lessons Learned

*Use a universal standard: Rank women in relation to all other women, not just women in your peer group.

*Being more objective will stop you from putting some basic bitch on a pedestal

*Realize just how rare girls on the top of the scale are, you’ve probably never met one