💞 Name Match

🕹️ How to play

1. Type two names: Put a name in each box — real name, nickname, English name, single letter, anything works. Every character you type pops up its own 1–9 value underneath. Not in the mood to type real names? Hit "Try a random pair" and two example names drop in.
2. Hit the heart and watch it build: Once both boxes are filled the main button lights up. Tap it and the reveal runs in three beats: each character lights up with its value, then the Sync / Echo / Mirror lines fill in one at a time with their numbers, then the needle climbs to your final score. Tap anywhere to jump to the end.
3. Switch lens, check the maths, run the next pair: After the result, tap the Friendship or Teamwork tab — the same three lines are re-weighted and give a different score. "Show the maths" unfolds the full formula so you can check it yourself, and "Swap the other name" keeps your name and clears theirs so you can run through a whole room of people.

📖 Rules & variants

Character values: every character gets a fixed 1–9 number derived from its character code, so the same character always scores the same. It is not a stroke count and carries no naming or fortune-telling meaning — it is published here purely so you can re-check the arithmetic yourself.

The three lines: (1) Sync compares the two character-value totals — the closer they are the better, scoring 100 − 6 × the gap; (2) Echo starts at 40, adds 30 for every character both names share, then 18 for every remaining pair of characters that share a value, capped at 100; (3) Mirror adds length balance (equal 40, off by one 28, off by two 16, off by three or more 6) to how close the first and last characters land (identical 30, within two 22, within four 14, within six 7, further apart 0).

Three lenses: the same three lines are re-weighted three ways — Romance leans on Echo (4:3:3), Friendship leans on Mirror (3:2:5), Teamwork leans on Sync (5:2:3) — so one pair of names usually produces three different scores, sometimes in different bands. Bands are 0–41 Chaos Duo, 42–57 Still Warming Up, 58–73 Steady Burn, 74–87 Same Wavelength, 88–100 Made for Each Other.

Worked example: alex × alexa — alex totals 16, alexa totals 24. Sync is 100 − 6×8 = 52. Echo shares four characters, 40 + 30×4 = 160, capped at 100. Mirror is 28 (one apart in length) + 30 (same first letter) + 14 (last letters four apart) = 72. Romance works out to (52×4 + 100×3 + 72×3) / 10 = 72, Friendship 72, Teamwork 68.

Deterministic and order-independent: no random number touches the score, so the same two names give the same result on any device, at any time, however many times you refresh. Every quantity the three lines use is symmetric, so swapping which name goes on the left changes nothing. Typing the same name twice always scores 100 — that is a deliberate easter egg, not a bug.

Input and history: any non-empty input produces a result — letters, Chinese characters, digits, emoji, one-character names and four-character names all work, and only an entry made purely of spaces or punctuation gets asked for a rewrite. Anything past the first 12 characters is ignored by the scoring, though your text is never rewritten. The last 20 pairs are kept on this device (names only, never scores — those are recomputed) and can be cleared in one tap.

House variants: (1) leaderboard mode — keep one person on the left, cycle everyone else through the right, and the history list becomes the ranking; (2) betting mode — both guess whether Romance or Friendship will score higher, then switch tabs to settle it; (3) nickname mode — skip real names and use the names you two call each other, which almost always reads funnier.

❓ FAQ