Nose Rating: Rate My Nose
Upload one photo and get your nose scored out of 10, alongside eleven other feature scores. Then see the number almost nobody publishes: across 17,032 real analyses, only 7.7% of people score 7 or above on the nose — the lowest of any feature we measure. Free — one tap to sign in.
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How the nose is scored
The nose is one of twelve features the model scores out of 10 on every face. It is read on proportion rather than size: the width of the base relative to the eyes and the mouth, the length relative to the middle third of the face, the straightness and projection of the bridge, and how the tip sits against the upper lip. There is no target nose. A nose scores well when it belongs to the face around it, which is why two very different noses can both score in the sevens.
Across 17,032 analyses the average nose scores 5.36, against an overall face mean of 5.59. Only skin scores lower (5.3). The nose also has the tightest spread of any feature — a standard deviation of 0.93 — meaning nose scores cluster hard around the middle. Whatever you have been told about your nose being unusual, the measurement disagrees: noses are the feature that varies least.
A high nose score is the rarest thing on this list
This is the finding that earns the nose its own page. For each of the twelve features we counted the share of people scoring 7 or above. The nose comes last — not because noses are bad, but because the nose is scored on a narrow band that very few faces escape upward. If you were quietly assuming everyone else has a 7 nose and you do not, here is the actual count.
| Feature | Scoring 7+ | Mean | Spread (SD) | Their best feature | Changeable? |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nose | 7.7% | 5.36 | 0.93 | 0.5% | No |
| Forehead | 7.9% | 5.39 | 0.78 | 2.4% | Partly |
| Cheeks | 10.1% | 5.42 | 0.99 | 1% | Partly |
| Chin | 10.6% | 5.39 | 1.09 | 0.1% | No |
| Symmetry | 11.2% | 5.62 | 1.01 | 3.9% | Barely |
| Facial harmony | 12.5% | 5.58 | 1.07 | 0.3% | Barely |
| Lips | 16.4% | 5.65 | 1 | 11.4% | Partly |
| Skin | 16.6% | 5.3 | 1.29 | 11.8% | Yes |
| Bone structure | 16.7% | 5.6 | 1.16 | 3.2% | No |
| Jawline | 17.4% | 5.59 | 1.24 | 16% | Partly |
| Eyebrows | 20.2% | 5.94 | 0.94 | 29.3% | Yes |
| Eyes | 22.6% | 5.97 | 0.99 | 20.1% | Partly |
7.7% of people score 7 or above on the nose. Compare 22.6% on the eyes and 17.4% on the jawline. It goes further: the nose is somebody's single best feature just 0.5% of the time — only the chin (0.1%) and facial harmony (0.3%) are rarer — and it is their weakest feature 9% of the time. Even the faces rated 8 or above overall only average 8.01 on the nose — one of the two lowest high-scorer figures in the study, level with the lips (8).
Read that last sentence again if the nose is the thing you worry about. The people you would describe as good-looking are not scoring 9s on their noses. They are scoring around an 8 while the rest of us score around a 5, on a feature where the entire population is packed into a band barely a point wide.
Figures use analyses from January 2026 onward (n=17,032), after the Dec 2025 model recalibration. Earlier analyses used a different scale.
The nose is the feature people are most likely to be wrong about
Two facts from the same dataset sit oddly together. The nose correlates with the overall rating at 0.97, which is second-highest of the twelve, behind only facial harmony (0.99). And yet the nose separates faces rated 8+ from faces rated under 5 by only 3.5 points, against 4.36 for the jawline.
Those two things are not a contradiction, and the difference between them is the whole point. A high correlation means the nose score moves in step with the face it belongs to — good faces get slightly better nose scores, in a tidy, predictable way. A small gap means the nose is not what creates the difference between those faces. The nose rides along. It is a passenger with an excellent view of the road, and people keep mistaking it for the driver.
If you scored around 5.36 on your nose
Then you scored the average, on the feature with the tightest distribution in the study, where 7.7% of people beat a 7 and 92.3% do not. That is not a diagnosis and it is not a defect. It is the single most common result there is, and it is what most of the faces you see every day are also carrying.
What changes a nose score — and what does not
The study marks the nose "No" on changeability, and we are not going to soften that. Being straight about it is more useful than a list of exercises that cannot work.
- Camera distance — the one that actually matters. A phone held at 30cm projects the closest part of your face outward. That is your nose. The same nose photographed from a metre away measures visibly narrower and shorter. If your selfie nose and your mirror nose disagree, the selfie is lying, not the mirror.
- Lighting direction. Light from directly above or hard from one side casts a shadow down the side of the bridge and widens the nose in the image. Frontal, diffuse light gives the honest reading.
- Nose exercises, taping, clips and rollers — nothing. The nose is cartilage on bone. Neither responds to being squeezed, pressed or trained, and no study has ever shown otherwise. These products sell because the nose is the thing people are most willing to pay to fix.
- Contouring — real, but only in a photo. Shading the sides of the bridge does narrow it to a camera. It is a photographic effect, it holds up at conversational distance about as well as any makeup does, and there is nothing wrong with using it. Just know which number it is changing.
- Surgery — the only structural change. Rhinoplasty is the one thing on this list that alters the measurement rather than the photograph. It is a conversation for a qualified surgeon, not a website, and it is worth going into it knowing that the average nose scores 5.36 and the best noses in a 17,032-face dataset average 8.01.
Where to put the attention instead
If the goal is a better overall score rather than a better nose specifically, the study is unambiguous about where the movement is. Skin is the feature people score worst on — the weakest feature for 38% of faces, the lowest mean of the twelve at 5.3, and the only one marked "Yes" on changeability. It separates high and low scorers by 4.28 points against the nose's 3.5.
In other words: the feature most people obsess over is fixed and barely separates anyone, and the feature that separates almost everyone responds to a basic routine. For context, 8.1% of people reach a 7 on the overall rating at all — so if your nose came back at 5.36, you are not behind. You are in the middle of the distribution, on the feature where the middle is most crowded.
Frequently asked questions
Is my nose too big?
Almost certainly not in the way you think. The nose is scored on how it sits with the rest of the face, not on absolute size, and the average score across 17,032 analyses is 5.36 out of 10 — the second-lowest of the twelve features. It also has the narrowest spread of any feature (standard deviation 0.93), which means noses vary far less in how they are scored than people assume they do. If your nose came back in the fives, it landed exactly where most noses land.
What is a good nose score?
Anything above 5.36 is above average, and a 7 is genuinely rare here: only 7.7% of people reach 7 or above on the nose, the lowest share of any of the twelve features. Even among faces rated 8+ overall, the nose averages 8.01 — one of the two lowest high-scorer averages in the study, alongside the lips (8). High-scoring faces do not have spectacular noses; they have noses that stay out of the way.
Does the nose affect attractiveness?
It tracks the overall rating closely — a correlation of 0.97, second only to facial harmony — but that is not the same as the nose driving the rating. The nose separates faces rated 8+ from faces rated under 5 by only 3.5 points, where the jawline separates them by 4.36. The nose moves with the rest of the face rather than pulling it.
Why is my nose score lower than my other features?
Because for most people it is. The nose is someone's weakest feature 9% of the time and their best feature only 0.5% of the time — nearly the rarest of the twelve. A low nose score relative to your other features is the normal pattern, not a signal that something is wrong with your nose.
Can I improve my nose score?
Not without surgery, and the study labels the nose "No" for exactly that reason. Nose exercises, taping, tools and massage do nothing to cartilage or bone; there is no mechanism by which they could. What genuinely changes a nose score in a photo is the lens — a phone held close distorts the centre of the face and enlarges the nose noticeably. Shoot from arm's length or further and the same nose measures better, because the first photo was the inaccurate one.
Do people notice my nose as much as I do?
The data suggests not. If the nose were the feature that decided how faces are perceived, it would separate high and low scorers more than the others. It is among the lowest of any structural feature — 3.5 points against 4.36 for the jawline and 3.58 for the eyes. You are looking at your nose from an inch away in a mirror. Nobody else ever sees it that way.
Is the nose rating free?
Yes. The nose score comes with the free rating, alongside eleven other feature scores — symmetry among them — and your percentile. You sign in first — Google or Apple, one tap — and it is free.
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