How “Why Am I Still Single?” finds your pattern

Twenty-four statements about how you actually date, eight patterns, one result. This page shows how the quiz decides, and where its limits are.

The statements

You rate 24 statements on a frequency scale: never (0), rarely (1), sometimes (2), often (3). Each describes a behaviour — who you pick, how you text, what you do when it gets real — rather than a feeling about yourself. Every statement was written for one pattern; some carry a smaller weight for a second pattern where the behaviour genuinely overlaps.

The eight patterns

The Fortress, the Unavailable Magnet, the Early Exit, the Poker Face, the Applause Seeker, the Deflector, the Moving Target and the Solo Season. They are deliberately vivid and every one of them comes with strengths, things to watch and one concrete thing to try. The Solo Season describes being single on purpose and is a full, legitimate result — the quiz does not assume that single is a problem to solve.

Scoring

For each pattern, the engine sums (rating × weight) over the statements that feed it and divides by the maximum it could reach, giving a 0–100 percentage per pattern. Patterns are scored independently and do not add up to 100. The highest percentage is your pattern, the second is your secondary, and exact ties are resolved by the fixed order of the patterns, so identical answers always give identical results.

Distribution checks

Automated checks run before every release: every pattern must be reachable, no pattern may win most random answer sets, and rating a pattern’s own statements at “often” must be enough for it to win against neutral answers elsewhere.

Limits

This is a mirror with a sense of humour, not an explanation of your life. Being single has reasons the quiz cannot see — timing, geography, grief, preference — and the result names a tendency in your own account of your behaviour, nothing more. It is not a diagnosis and not advice. Your ratings never leave your device; a shared result carries only the pattern name.

Versioning

Version 1. A change to any statement, weight or pattern creates a new version; results keep theirs.