Your Room-Mate Quiz

By Lev Novak

Before deciding who to live with, it’s important to make sure you’re on the same page. This quiz will help you figure out which of your friends are the right fits for your apartment, and which friends to leave out of the lease. There’s no cut-off point, but run your friend-options through: the higher the score, the better the fit.

Real World

Will they pay their share of toilet paper, napkins, etc? (+3)

Can you trust them for their rent, on time and in full? (+10)

Will they deal with the landlord and/or any “real world” problems? (+5)

Will they cause those real-world problems by putting shampoo in the dishwasher? (-10)

Will they pay your share too, since they don’t really pay attention to money? (+3)

Can they cook? (+2)

Will they cook but not share and go “mmmmmmmm” really loud? (-10)

Can you reach them when you need to? (+5)

Will they not pick up their phone and make you chase them like a jealous ex? (-20)

Do they want a chore wheel? (-10)

Seriously, a chore wheel? (-10)

What is this, summer camp? (-10)

Will they clean up their own messes? (+5)

Will they clean up a mess without arguing if it’s “theirs” or not? (+20)

College Living

Are they an aspiring D.J? (-10)

Do they make you call them by their D.J. name? (-1,000)

Do they have similar taste in substances and schedules for said substance? (+5)

Will you have similar sleep schedules? (+5)

Do you have the same friends? (+5)

Do you have some of the same friends, but enough new friends to broaden your circles? (+10)

Can you share books/ study together for the same class? (+5)

Will he try to get you to take notes for that class while he sleeps off his hangover? (-50)

Does he know where the parties are, and will he take you? (+20)

Are you going to have to walk him home from the party because he tried to steal all the hosts’ cereal? (-15)

Did he at least get any cereal? (+5)

Captain Crunch? With Crunch-berries? Sweet. (+10)

Other

If you needed fifty bucks, no questions asked, would they lend it to you? (+10)

Are they the one who’d need fifty bucks, no questions asked? (-10)

Do they have a car? (+20)

A car they’d lend you? (+30)

A car they’d drive sober to bars!? (+500)

Would they get along with all your other room-mates? (+20)

If they wouldn’t get along, would at least be a Real World type deal? (+10)

Did you find them on the internet? (-1)

Via uCribs? (+1)

Via your school’s site? (+0)

Via Craigslist? (-1)

Via the comments section of a Yahoo! Sports article? (-1,000)

Are they clean? (+2)

Are they too clean? (-3)

Do they have a significant other? (-1)

Do they have a chill significant other who wants to introduce you to their attractive and cool friends? (+2)

Do you just need one last person to fill this apartment? (+100)

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And there you have it! A simple recipe to find out if your friend is a good room-mate match.

Add two points (+2) for every cool thing they could bring (Xbox, good speakers, a T.V.) and subtract one point (-1) for every stupid nickname their friends have. Again, there’s no cut-off point but compare your friends in this metric, and add any other important category you can think of.

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