How to Use MyType: Complete Guide to the Visual Attraction Quiz

What is MyType FYI?

Everyone has an instinctive "type," but articulating what truly draws us to someone's face is notoriously difficult. Standard personality quizzes are too abstract, while real-world dating apps introduce overwhelming noise — bios, camera angles, lighting filters, and social status cues.

MyType FYI is an interactive calibration tool designed specifically to isolate and decode pure facial attraction and visual preference:

• 20 Interactive Contact Sheets: Each study presents 20 successive sheets containing 12 high-fidelity synthetic portraits each (240 faces total).
• Pure Instinctual Feedback: Simply tap the faces that catch your eye. No tedious surveys, no overthinking.
• Empirical Decoupling: Our algorithm isolates general crowd consensus from your unique personal affinity, revealing your true visual inclinations.
• 100% Ethically Synthesized Portraits: All faces used in the study are generated synthetically. Zero private photographs or real dating profiles are ever scraped, stored, or rated.

Empirical research shows that even close friends viewing the exact same contact sheets agree on their top 2% of favorites only 3% to 18% of the time. Visual attraction is deeply personal, intricate, and varied.

Core Concepts: Reading Your Results

Before diving in, understanding these key concepts will help you get the most out of your results:

1. Crowd Consensus vs. Personal Hidden Gems

• Crowd Consensus: Faces that are widely recognized as attractive across the general population (high market percentage).
• Personal Hidden Gems: Faces that land in your top 95th percentile of affinity, yet face far lower competition across the broader crowd. These represent your distinct aesthetic fingerprint.

2. Type vs. Anti-Type

• Your Type: The cluster of facial traits and aesthetic cues that consistently evoke high affinity from you.
• Your Anti-Type: The visual traits statistically least likely to resonate with you, helping define the boundaries of your taste.

3. Taste Bars & Trait Breakdown

The system breaks down your preferences across distinct visual dimensions — facial bone structure, gaze warmth, styling nuances, contrast, and hair colors — allowing you to see your intuitive taste represented in clear data.

4. 76 Crowd-Calibrated Archetypes

By comparing your responses against a library of 76 archetypes spanning women and men (such as Pre-Raphaelite, Silver Fox, Goth Girl, Rugged Lumberjack, etc.), MyType matches you to your closest visual archetype alongside celebrity reference profiles.

Step-by-Step: How to Take the Test

Step 1: Select Your Audience

Navigate to the MyType Homepage and click "Begin the Study". Choose the portrait set you'd like to evaluate:

• Women
• Men

Note: You can run separate calibrations for both women and men at any time; each run maintains an independent preference model.

Step 2: Instinctive Rapid Tapping

Once the study begins, a 3×4 grid displaying 12 portraits appears:

• Follow Your Gut: Tap any face that immediately catches your eye or sparks interest.
• Flexible Choices: Tap multiple faces, just one face, or skip to the next sheet if none appeal to you.
• Undo Support: Made an accidental tap? Hit the Undo button in the top corner to revert your previous action.
• Keyboard Friendly: On desktop, navigate using your arrow keys and press the spacebar to tap seamlessly.

Step 3: Complete the 20 Rounds

As you progress through each contact sheet, the Live Strip at the bottom updates in real time:

• The underlying recommendation model continuously refines feature weights based on your positive and negative selections.
• The entire process typically takes only 5 to 8 minutes.

Step 4: Unlock Your RealType Results

Upon completing round 20, your comprehensive report unlocks:

1. RealType Archetype Card: Discover your primary archetype match, core traits, and archetype portrait.
2. Taste Scatter Plot: The horizontal axis tracks general market consensus, while the vertical axis represents your personal affinity. Notice which faces land in your "Hidden Gems" quadrant (top-left).
3. Taste Bars: View your relative scores across key facial and stylistic attributes.
4. Celebrity Lookalike Matches: Discover well-known figures whose visual profiles align with your top selections.

Step 5: Compare with Friends in Group Mode

Curious how your taste compares to your friends or partner?

• Head over to the Group Comparison page.
• Create a group or share your unique personal code.
• Instantly compare pairwise taste correlations, see your shared top 2% favorites, and uncover mutual hidden gems!

3 Pro Tips for the Best Experience

1. Rely on sub-second reactions: Don't pause to analyze facial symmetry or try to identify why you like a portrait. Your immediate subconscious reaction is the most accurate signal.
2. Forget "socially expected" standards: There are no right or wrong answers. The quiz is designed to strip away societal expectations and find what genuinely appeals to you.
3. Stay in the flow: Take the quiz in a quiet setting with stable connectivity to finish the 20 sheets in one smooth session.

Ready to Discover Your Type?

Attraction is a fascinating window into personal perception. Start your journey today:

• Start the MyType Quiz
• Explore the 76 Archetypes
• Try Group Mode with Friends
• Read About Our Methodology