"Are your standards reasonable, or are you waiting for a mythical creature?"
Women's edition. Twenty-four scenarios, each one a man you'd probably swipe past. Answer how you'd actually react, not how you'd describe it to the group chat afterward.
And no, there is no Bare Minimum Detector for men. There will never be one.
Because let's be real: the only requirement for a man is a female with a pulse. That's the whole bar. A man will go down bad because a woman blinked at him in a Target parking lot. He will restructure his life around a barista who got his name slightly wrong.
Meanwhile yours is 6'4", has a skincare routine, a dead grandmother he brings up at the right moments, a career established by 27, and emotionally regulates on command. The board is pinned. We have all seen the board.
So this one goes the other direction, and it's going to hurt.
Your answers never leave your browser. Only the result gets counted, so I can laugh at you weirdos in aggregate, never individually.
The Ladies' Bare Minimum Detector settles the argument you keep having with your group chat: are your dating standards reasonable, or are you holding out for a mythical creature? Twenty-four men you'd probably swipe past go under review, and the quiz scores whether your bar is healthy self-respect or a filter set to impossible.
Some people come out at Is He Nice, a bar so low it's basically underground. Most land around Interview Round 7, thorough but arguably fair. And a legendary few reach Population: 0 Matches Found, having successfully filtered out all eight billion people on Earth. So are your standards too high, really? Twenty-four scenarios stand between you and the verdict. It's not about lowering the bar or raising it, it's about finding where you actually set it when nobody's watching you justify it. Your grandmother has opinions. So does the algorithm. Now you'll have a number.
Made by one person. No logins, no answers stored.
If it ruined your afternoon, that was the point.
The Bare Minimum Detector measures whether your standards are reasonable or quietly living in orbit. It scores the looks tax, the money bar, the ambition audit, optics, and your tolerance for a partner having a life, then tells you how high the bar really sits.
The result runs from Is He Nice to Population Zero, Matches Found. High standards are not a crime. Knowing where yours actually sit is just useful information.
Your standards are scored across six categories:
Your answers move a score across six categories, from the looks tax to your tolerance for a partner having a life, and they combine into one result. That ranges from a grounded bar to Population Zero, Matches Found. High standards are not a crime, knowing where yours sit is just useful.
This is for anyone who has been told their standards are too high and would like a second opinion, and for the friends staging the intervention. Take it, then defend your list.