Frequently asked questions

Not even a little. It's a joke calculator. It counts your history answers once each, multiplies your habits answers by years and then by a small ballpark average, and rounds. Think of it as a fortune cookie with better graphics. How it works shows the method, and our Terms & Disclaimer say plainly that results are entertainment, not a measurement of anything.

Three to five questions, depending on your answers. They're a few light questions about your habits and history, answered in euphemisms. Two ask for rough lifetime counts of the people you've been with (unique people, so the same person twice still counts as one). One is a how-often question about a habit. If your answer isn't "Never," two more ask roughly how many years and which broad categories apply. The exact wording stays on the quiz, behind the age check.

Because the habits part of the math multiplies. A how-often answer becomes an estimated number of times per year (for example, "About once a week" counts as 52), which gets multiplied by years and then by a small ballpark average. Small habits plus many years make big, silly numbers. That's the joke. Your results page has a “How we (very unscientifically) got this” section that splits out both parts.

Neither. Every number gets a compliment, and our one rule is to never insult anyone. A low number isn’t “innocent” and a high number isn’t “wild.” They’re just numbers, and very silly ones.

A bonus joke. The calculator sorts totals into eight made-up ranges, from Mint condition (exactly 0) to Legendary (25,001 and up), and gives each one a name and five nice lines. They’re there to decorate the share card, not to tell you who you are. The full list is on Result labels.

They're euphemisms. One count is drawn as flowers or cats, the other as an eggplant or one of its friends. It's funnier, it keeps the site soft-PG, and it means a scorecard can sit in a group chat without anyone wincing. Nothing on the site shows or names anatomy.

The symbols are picked at random for every result: one from 17 flowers and cats, one from 14 produce-and-friends options. The line is random too (one of five for your range). Your total and label only change if your answers do.

The questions are about adult life, even though the language stays soft. The joke is for grown-ups. Everything else on the site, including this FAQ and our guides, is open to read without the check.

When you open the quiz, you're asked to confirm you're 18 or older. It's a self-confirmation, not an ID check. If you confirm, a small first-party cookie remembers it for about 30 days. If you choose "I'm under 18," the quiz stays closed. Please only enter if you're 18 or older.

No. There are no accounts, and we never ask for your name or email.

No. Your answers are sent to our server to calculate the result in the moment and aren't kept. Our hosting provider may process the request briefly as part of normal web traffic. Answers are never sent to analytics. The full details are in our Privacy Policy.

Two kinds. Our own age-check cookie (about 30 days), and Google Analytics cookies. For visitors in the EEA, UK and Switzerland, Google Analytics starts with its cookies off by default. No ads run right now; if ads return, they appear only on written pages, never on the quiz, results or scorecards. You can clear cookies in your browser at any time, which also resets the age check.

Anonymous usage events: someone started the quiz, finished it, which broad range the result landed in (like "51–500"), and whether they downloaded or shared a scorecard. Google Analytics also collects standard technical data like pages viewed, approximate location and device type. It never receives your answers, name, email or share-link IDs. You can opt out with Google's Analytics opt-out browser add-on.

Nothing is uploaded until you tap a share or invite button. When you do, we store your scorecard image and a short summary (the two estimated counts, the euphemism names, the total and your saying) so a link like countmybits.com/r/… works. Your individual answers are not part of it. Anyone who has the link can open it, so share it with people you'd show the image to anyway. Share pages are marked so search engines don't list them.

Yes. The Download button creates the image on your device and doesn't upload anything. Save it, look at it, or never show it to anyone. Closing the tab works too.

Shared scorecards are automatically deleted 90 days after they're created. After that, the link stops working. If you'd like one removed sooner, email the link to [email protected] and we'll remove it on request.

Stop passing the link around, and take down your own posts or messages that include it, since those are the main way others would find it. Either way, shared scorecards are automatically deleted 90 days after they're created. You can also ask us to remove it: email [email protected] with the link, and we'll remove the scorecard on request. We can't promise a specific turnaround time.

Yes, and it's a great icebreaker when everyone actually wants to play. Ground rules that work: it's opt-in, anyone can pass, nobody screenshots someone else's result without asking, and nobody's number gets teased. We wrote a full guide: Group Quiz Etiquette. Planning a party? See The Girls' Night & Bachelorette Game Guide.

Only if you both want to, and only as a laugh. The quiz number isn't real information about anyone's past. If a real conversation about history comes up, our guide The "Number Talk" is about doing that with curiosity instead of judgment.