How PSL rating actually works
PSL is a face-rating shorthand born on internet forums about a decade ago. The acronym comes from three sites that helped popularize the 1–10 scale, and the concept eventually spread far beyond them. Today PSL is shorthand for "how would a tough crowd grade this face?" — and that's the score Omoggle shows you before every match.
The five sub-scores
Omoggle's PSL rating is derived from five independent measurements. Each one is computed locally from facial keypoints and combined into a single score on a 1–10 scale.
1. Symmetry
We compare distances and angles on the left and right halves of the face — eye corners, brows, nose tip, mouth corners, jaw points. The smaller the divergence, the higher the symmetry score. Almost no face is perfectly symmetric, so don't panic if you sit at 65–75: that range is normal and competitive.
2. Harmony
Harmony grades how the major facial thirds line up — forehead, mid-face, lower-face. The classical "rule of thirds" rewards roughly equal vertical compartments. Faces that score very high on harmony tend to look balanced even at unflattering angles.
3. Jaw
Jaw grades the gonial angle and lower-face width. A defined gonion (the corner of the jaw) and a clean angle from ear to chin pulls this score up. Jaw is the most lighting-sensitive sub-score — soft downlighting will tank it. We compensate, but only partly.
4. Skin
Skin scores texture uniformity: blemishes, redness gradients, micro shadowing. Skin is the easiest sub-score to move in the short term — good lighting and a clean lens beat expensive skincare in any single frame.
5. Canthal tilt
The angle from your medial canthus (inner eye corner) to your lateral canthus (outer corner). Slightly positive tilt — outer corner above inner corner — is read as more dominant on camera and tends to nudge your overall PSL up. We have a dedicated article on canthal tilt if you want the full breakdown.
How the final score is computed
The five sub-scores are normalized to 0–100, weighted, and mapped to a 1–10 PSL band. The weights aren't equal: harmony and symmetry carry more than skin, because skin can be temporarily distorted by a single bad night's sleep or a dim room.
The final number maps to a public "tier":
- 9.0–10.0 — MOG (top 1%)
- 7.5–8.9 — Chad / Stacy
- 6.0–7.4 — High-tier normie
- 4.0–5.9 — Mid-tier normie
- 1.0–3.9 — Sub-rated
What PSL doesn't measure
Personality, expression, vibe, height, voice. Plenty of people who score sub-7 on PSL win their actual mog battles because the audience rewards smiles, eye contact and confidence. PSL is one input, not the final word.
Privacy
The whole pipeline runs in your browser using a facial keypoint model loaded from a public CDN. No frames are uploaded. No frames are recorded. The only data leaving your device during a session is your ELO change after each match.
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