How Long Will It Take for You to Meet Your Soulmate?

About This Quiz

In ancient Greece, Aristophanes, student of Plato, put forth a thesis that all humans were created with two sets of arms, two sets of legs and a head with two faces. The Greek gods, jealous of man and affronted by his pride, decided to punish the human race by splitting us up into genders. In this way, single souls were split apart, and one day they had to come back together to be whole. Thus was born the idea of the soulmate.

Today, finding a soulmate is a game of odds. Science argues that the definition of "soulmate" is probably more a ballpark definition, not a specific person. Even if your ideal mate could be any one of a million people in the whole world, that's a lot of people you will likely never come across. This enters us into the so-called "fussy suitor problem"; when do you stop dating and decide the person in front of you is the one?

One rejects the majority of the people they date (almost by definition), but science says that after rejecting the first 37% of lifetime suitors, the next one will, statistically speaking, be better than the rest. It's not totally foolproof, but it works better than random selection, so perhaps we should all reject the first run of people we date, and then settle down with the first person we meet after who makes us think, "Yeah, I don't want to scream every time I see your face" when we see them.

Or you can keep what you're doing. What does science know, anyway? Well, science is here to help you. Take this quiz and we'll find out when you'll find your soulmate!