What is Than Average (thanaverage.xyz)?

Than Average is a small, unscientific survey site where you answer questions comparing yourself to 100 imagined strangers, then see how everyone else answered. It's worth a few minutes if you're curious how your self-perception stacks up against other people's — but it is explicitly a casual investigation into how we value and compare ourselves, not a formal research or testing tool.

How it works

The premise is set up for you before you answer anything. You're asked to imagine a room of 100 strangers who are similar to your peers and neighbours, and to answer based solely on your own instinct, perceptions, and self-reflection. Then you compare yourself to them.

The site frames this as "a small unscientific investigation into how we value and compare ourselves to each other." That framing matters: it tells you upfront that the results are not a measurement of anything real about you.

A sample question from the site shows the format:

Imagine you are in a room with 100 strangers... Compare yourself to them.

• Yes, I am beautiful
• No, I am ugly

You pick an answer, and the site moves you to another question.

What you can do on the site

• Answer questions — go through the comparison prompts one at a time.
• See results — view aggregated responses to questions others have answered.
• Suggest questions — submit your own question ideas to the pool.

The 500-response rule

Results are not shown for every question. The site only displays results for questions with more than 500 responses. If you're looking for a result and can't find one, that's usually why — the question simply hasn't crossed the threshold yet.

Is it worth participating?

It depends on what you want from it:

The honest summary: treat it as a light, self-reflective exercise. The value is in the act of answering and in the curiosity of seeing aggregate responses, not in any conclusion you draw about yourself from the numbers.