Love Calculator

How it works

Type in two names and the calculator turns them into a single score out of 100. It strips out spaces, capitalization, and punctuation, sorts the two names into a fixed order, then runs them through a formula that gives the same pair the same number every time, whichever order you type them in and whatever device you're on. Nothing is randomized and nothing is pulled from an outside source. The two names you type in are the entire input.

That consistency is the point. A result that changed every time you refreshed the page wouldn't be worth sharing. You couldn't screenshot it, send it to a friend, or compare notes with the person you typed in. Lock the score to the exact two names, and "Alex and Jordan" comes out the same no matter who runs it or how many times.

No personal data leaves your browser to make it happen. The whole calculation runs locally, right where you typed the names in. Wondering how you'd score with someone specific instead? The Crush Calculator runs the same way, just tuned to a different question. Want your birthdays factored in too? The Love Calculator by Name & DOB blends both into one score.

Where the "love calculator" idea comes from

Long before phones, this was a paper-and-pen game. Count the letters two names have in common, then cancel them out in a loop against the word FLAMES (Friends, Lovers, Affection, Marriage, Enemies, Siblings) until whichever category survives becomes the answer. The game moved from notebook margins to graphing calculators, and eventually to the first wave of joke websites in the early 2000s, which swapped the category-based answer for a percentage instead.

This calculator keeps that same spirit of two names in, one number out, just without the letter-cancellation method underneath. It runs on a fixed digital formula instead, chosen so results stay consistent and shareable rather than shifting depending on which version of the rules someone remembers. The output is still the same kind of thing people have been scribbling in notebook margins for decades: a number two people can compare, nothing more. Prefer the original method, letters and all? The FLAMES Calculator runs it exactly as written.

It's stuck around this long for a simple reason. It gives two people something small and low-stakes to talk about. Showing someone a number doesn't ask anything of them the way an actual conversation about feelings does. That's an opener, not a confession, and it's exactly why people keep typing it into a search bar millions of times a year.

What to actually do with your score

A high number is fun to screenshot, but it isn't evidence of anything, and a low one isn't a warning either. Most people use this tool as an icebreaker: running it with a crush, a partner, or a group chat full of friends, then letting the number start a conversation instead of end one.

Got a low score with someone you're serious about? The honest answer is the same as it would've been anyway: talk to them. Got a high score with someone you just met? Treat it like a fortune cookie, a nice thing to notice, nothing to build a plan on. Real compatibility comes from actual conversations, shared time, and how two people handle disagreement. It has nothing to do with what two names hash to.