Friendboard

Your quiz’s scoreboard, not the site’s popularity list

Friendboard is the live ranked list attached to one quiz. When friends finish guessing your ten locked answers, they appear here: name, score out of ten, country flag, rank. The board updates as people complete the quiz. It is the thing you screenshot. It is the thing the chat argues about. It is not a spreadsheet you keep private, and it is not the global ranking of quizzes on FriendQuiz.org.

That last distinction is the whole reason this page exists. People say “leaderboard” for both objects and then get lost. The global leaderboard is a separate page. It ranks most-played quizzes across the site. Trending quizzes is another separate page — a browse surface for what other people are sharing. Your Friendboard does not become those pages because eight friends played. Those pages do not replace your Friendboard. Different jobs. Different URLs.

You get a Friendboard by creating a quiz. The form on this page is that create path: enter your name, lock about ten answers about yourself, get one link. There is no empty “create scoreboard” button that exists without a quiz. No account is required for you. No friend accounts are required for them. No app. No required email. No paid wall in 2026.

What actually appears on a Friendboard

Each row is a player on this quiz. You see the name they typed, their score out of ten, a country flag, and where they sit in the order. The order is the rank. Higher scores sit higher. When two people land the same number, they still show as separate rows — the board is a list of finishes, not a merged identity system. Friends did not create profiles. They typed a name and played.

The score is always out of ten because the quiz is about ten locked answers. A 7/10 means seven matches. It does not mean 70% of a friendship, a personality type, or a clinical rating. If you want the ranking framed as “who knows me best,” that landing is the who knows me best quiz. If you want a head-to-head fight for #1, use the best friend test. Both still write into a Friendboard. The board is the mechanism. Those pages are the framing.

Flags are a location hint on the row, not a passport check. They make a long list scannable when people play from more than one country. They are not a travel product.

What you will not see

No Myers-Briggs letter, no email you were forced to collect, no paywall over the ranks. You will see the people who opened this link and finished. If the board is empty, nobody has finished yet — or you are looking at the global leaderboard by mistake.

When the ranks update

The Friendboard updates as friends finish, not as they start. A person who is still on question four is not a row yet. When they submit, the name and score appear and the order can shuffle. That live quality is the social part. You can watch a 6/10 get knocked down a place while the chat is still going.

There is no official closing bell inside the product. The link keeps working. If you want a party-shaped ending, announce one in the chat: “we screenshot at 9.” The board will still accept later plays. Those later plays are how long-distance friends catch up. They are also how a “final” ranking gets a surprise 10/10 the next morning. If that bothers you, treat the screenshot as the event and the live board as the archive.

You cannot edit the questions after friends have played. Changing items would break every score already on the list. If the set is wrong, make a new quiz and start a new Friendboard. That still takes about two minutes. Patching a live one is not offered, including in 2026.

Why a live board beats a private spreadsheet

A friend quiz dies when only the creator sees the results. That is the Forms problem: answers go to a sheet, the sheet stays with you, and the group has nothing to react to unless you become a commentator. Friendboard exists so you do not have to host the recap. The ranked list is public to people with the link. The argument happens in the chat, not in your inbox.

Competition needs a shared object. “I got 8” in a vacuum is a status. “I got 8 and I am in third under two names I recognize” is a game. The extra data on each row — rank, flag, the score out of ten — is small on purpose. It is enough to screenshot and not enough to turn the quiz into an analytics product.

If you actually need raw response data, a classroom key, or an export, this is the wrong tool. The friend quiz maker page is blunt about that comparison. Friendboard is not trying to be Sheets.

Ranks become chat content — for better or worse

The healthy version is a crop of the ranked list dropped back into the same chat, naming the person sitting at 9/10. The unhelpful version is using a 3/10 as evidence that a friendship is fake. A low score usually means rushed taps, a mixed group, questions that were too inside-joke — or someone who does not know you well. Trash talk works when it is about attention, not character. “You missed the coffee order” is fair. “This proves you never cared” is a different hobby. The board has no tone setting.

Write questions as if they will be screenshotted. Skip secrets, medical details, passwords, and anything that outs a third person. A cereal question still produces ranks. A trap question produces a crop you cannot pull back.

• Paste the link in one place so everyone is looking at the same ranks.
• Announce a screenshot time if you need a party ending, knowing later plays can still join.
• Roast the misses, not the person.
• If two people tie, do not invent a sudden-death feature the product does not have — send a second quiz.

You need a quiz before you have a Friendboard

There is no orphan scoreboard. The create form on this page is the start: name, ten answers about you, one unique link. Friends open that link in a browser, guess, and only then do rows exist. If you came here hoping to pin an empty board on a wall, create the quiz first. The board is a side effect of play, not a decoration you publish alone.

That also means each quiz has its own Friendboard. A roommate quiz and a class quiz are two links and two ranked lists. Scores do not merge. Someone who played both appears on both, as two finishes, because they were two quizzes. If you want one crowded board, send one link to the whole crowd. That hosting pattern is the friend group quiz.

If you have never made one of these, the mechanical walkthrough is how to make a quiz for friends. The short version is still the same five moves: name, lock ten, copy link, share, watch this board.

Friendboard vs global leaderboard vs trending

Three pages get mixed up in search results. Here is the clean split.

• Friendboard (this page): ranked players on your quiz — names, scores out of ten, flags, live as people finish.
• Global leaderboard: most-played quizzes site-wide. Visit the leaderboard when you want that view. Playing your quiz does not automatically put your friends on it as a personal ranking.
• Trending: a discover surface for quizzes other people are sharing right now. That is discover/trend, not your private running order.

If a friend says “I’m not on the leaderboard” after scoring 8/10, ask which URL they opened. If they opened the global page, they were in the wrong aisle. Their row lives on your Friendboard. If they opened the quiz link and finished, they should see themselves on this quiz’s board. If they opened trending, they are browsing, not competing on your ten questions.

Keeping the names separate is product honesty. Calling everything a leaderboard would be easier to write and worse to use. Friendboard is the per-quiz object. Leaderboard is the global most-played list. Trend is browse.

No friend accounts, on purpose

Every extra signup step loses the people who were only half paying attention. Friendboard is designed around that fact. Players type a name. They play in the browser they already have. They show up on the ranked list. There is no “invite your friends to join FriendQuiz” loop required to see scores.

The downside is obvious: names are not verified identities. People can type a joke name or play twice under two strings. That is a group-chat problem, not a KYC product. If your circle cares, say “use the name we actually call you.” The row is still a score out of ten.

You, the creator, also skip the account, which is why create time stays around two minutes. Copy the link somewhere you can find it. There is no heavy dashboard you log into next month to “manage players.” The quiz is the link. The Friendboard is on that quiz. If you lose the URL, you cannot conjure the board from a password you never made.

One board per quiz, including rematches

Roommate chats leave a kitchen ranking in the thread for a week. Class groups use it as an icebreaker that does not require standing in a circle. Cousin threads let time zones catch up without a video call. Parties pass a phone because nobody has to sign in. In every case the Friendboard is the shared receipt. It is a thin tool if only one friend will ever play — technically a board with one row. Send the link to the room that should fill it.

Ties happen. Several people can land on 8/10. There is no bonus-question sudden death in the product. Make a second quiz if the argument needs another round: ten new locked answers, a new Friendboard. That is the rematch mechanic — another quiz, not an edit of the live one.

What Friendboard is not

It is not a global hall of fame for your friends as people, not Myers-Briggs, not an email list, not a paid analytics upgrade, not trending, and not the global leaderboard. It is the ranked finish list for one quiz you created by locking ten answers about yourself and sharing one link. Empty boards are a distribution problem: paste the link where the group already talks, use a challenge caption, wait for the first finish. The rest of the names tend to follow because the ranks are visible.