The 0 or 1 Rating Scale (Hot or Not?)

UPDATE: Since I haven't posted photos, I realize the discussion of rating scales might be difficult to follow if you don't know me.
UPDATE 2: Rating Scale explained at very very bottom of page!

Japan Newbie Pickup "Gurus" Getting Japan's Finest?

We all have a certain rating scale we use. Hopefully, we use the same Objective Looks Scale, which doesn't take personal preferences into consideration, rather, it shows how society as a whole views a given girl. At the time of writing this, though, I haven't printed much detail regarding this scale. Not knowing it makes knowing what an 8 is difficult, but I encourage you to read on.

I was recently reading an online discussion about pickup gurus from the US coming to Japan to teach foreigners here how to pickup Japanese girls. The argument was obvious: how can this guy teach anyone how to pick up Japanese girls if he's never lived in Japan? Allegedly these guys can come to Japan start making out with the hottest girl on the street within 30 minutes--all without speaking Japanese! And they're even getting girls who don't speak English! What?

Do you believe the above? I do. I totally believe that these guys come to Japan can take "hot" girls to the love hotel within 30 minutes. They do this stuff for a living, and they're obviously good at it. Can you or I do this too?

Well, to answer this question, we must look at the definition of "hottest girl on the street." Who's judging? Is it the guru who's never been to Japan? Is it the guy who's only been in Japan a year? Or are Japanese guys in their 20s judging? Or how about I do the judging?

Heck, you know, when I first came to Japan, and for my first year or two here, every girl seemed hot. Do you want to see my pictures? I bet you would! But, I'm not showing them! You'd laugh me off the Internet! I didn't nail fat pigs, or no 1s, but looking at my pictures we'd see some 4s and maybe even some 3s. There were a few 7s, sure, but the average was not even close to what I get now.

Think, we can change the hotness of girls we get just by how we think. So, although the girls were uglier back then, some guys could actually be in a situation where they were actually happier getting the ugly girls, because at the time, they didn't know they were ugly! And to tell you the truth, I'd say I was much happier banging a 5 back then than I am banging an 8 today. Ignorance is bliss, huh?

So, I think you've guessed it by now. Our "hottest girl on the street," as judged by newbies, is on the Objective Looks Scale, a very small deviation from average. And if you don't know the corresponding number here, it's 5, halfway between 0 and 10. We're talking 6s and below that they get.*

So there you have it, your questions answered. Do 7s and 8s speak English? Do 7s and 8s sit around listening to a gaijin ramble on in English although they don't understand? Are the real hottest girls on the street--the 9s that is...the girls I see less than once a month--really so abundant that guys can spend a week in Japan and get two of them? Do English teachers, those who come to Japan for a year and go home and tell the world how easy Japanese girls are, come in contact and have sex with these 9s on a regular basis?

C'mon, I don't have to answer these questions, right?

Rating 0s and 1s

So, for my own use and satisfaction, I want to start rating girls 0s and 1s. It's simple, and it has its uses. Let's take these Japanese newbies and these gurus. Let's throw them in with my drinking buddy who takes home a chunky 3 every weekend. Now, these guys, granted, have sex with a lot of girls, right? I mean, hell, each time I go to a three-hour international party I end up banging about 2 girls. Now, what about these guys who go there every weekend! Hell, they might get two or more girls a week!

Now lets remember that our 8s NEVER attend these parties. In Osaka, in the few parties I've been to this year, I've seen one (yes, one) 7.5. She's been to every party I've been to. And she speaks no English.

So, let's add these girls up. You have a 4, a 5, two 6s, a 5.5, a 4.5, and even a 7. What's you score? 0! That's right, on this scale, only the 8s and 9s (and of course 9.5s if you ever see them) get a rating. And since there's no level of rating, that rating is a simple 1. And if the girl doesn't make the cut, she's a 0, and therefore doesn't count. A WOT. 仲間入らない.

The obvious cut-off should be 7.5, because that's halfway between 5 and 10. However, if that 7.5 is halfway, couldn't she go either way? A 8 is a 1 for sure, and a 7 is a 0 for sure--and that's too bad because 7s are pretty cute--but the 7.5 can go either way. So, use your best judgment. However, if you ask me, I'll probably say no. 0!! :)

Summary and Conclusion

Some guys who have been in Japan only a year or two, or not at all, seem to think that getting a 5 is the same as getting a 9. They think there is the same skill involved, and that you don't need Japanese to get a 9, because everyone is a 9. For them, ignorance is bliss.

To protect ourselves from these claims, and to keep from following the wrong leaders, we need to look at the Objective Ratings of these girls. If she's in the top quarter of the rating scale, meaning over a 7.5, then she gets a 1.** If you're taking advice how to get hot girls from a guy who's banged nothing but 0s, then, although the guy might know his women, he doesn't know hot women.

If you meet a guy who has over 1 point in his life on Japanese girls, then you might like to get to know him more. If he shows you a second picture and gets another point, giving him 2 points, then he is very likely a leader to be followed. 5 points? We're not going to even discuss that. Sure, 5 points is for sure possible. In a few months even. But, I'd just like to challenge the world to see how many guys with 5 points are out there. I say not too many.

* Remember, 4s, 5s and 6s are all pretty common. A 4 is your basic plain girl. Not cute at all, but not gross. A 6 would be seen as cute by anyone. She's not going to stop traffic though. Remember, makeup could really doctor these ratings, and that's okay, because we're judging external appearance only. We keep personal preference ratings to ourselves--"I like girls who look good without makeup" etc.
** I'm not talking about the top 25% of the population. If you take all girls between 18 and 30, then probably only 2% would be 8s and 9s. If you you take all girls 18-25, then it will probably be 4% or so. Note these are simply ballpark figures. I guessed.