As part of your traveller profile we give you a total traveller score. This number might seem somewhat arbitrary at first sight so it's worth explaining how we get to it. It's fairly straightforward.

We've explained in the 'how it works' section that we've assigned each destination a score of either 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, or 10. So world famous destinations like London, Taj Mahal, or Grand Canyon get a 10, while the lesser known minor highlights get a low score (click on the "i" when you select destinations to find out the scores). As you probably expected, adding up all the scores of the destinations that you selected gets you your total traveller score. Well, almost, as there's one other factor that adds to it.

Quite a few countries are too small to split up in destinations as we explained in a previous blog post. Of course, we do need give these a score as well, which we determined to be a score of 4 (significant but still less than the minimum score of a regular country which would be at least 5), so for each of those selected countries an additional 4 points are added.

So how to interpret your traveller score? Well, in your profile we tell you how you rank overall, and how you compare with your fellow countrymen and to the people in the country where you live (if different from your nationality). But, to give you an indication, most travellers have scores between 80 and 400 with 180 the typical traveller score. 

For example, a traveller with a score of 150 will typically have visited a decent number of countries on the continent where they live and a few more further away. Those with a score of around 350 will have visited multiple countries on most continents though still often miss out on one continent (not counting Antartica). Those that crack the top 10% tend to distinguish themselves by the depth of their travels. The colour of their maps have changed from a lighter to a darker orange and they tend to have explored some of the larger countries extensively. 

Scores of over 1000 are rare, but even then you have only seen 30% of the world! The top score is currently 1513 (the map you see above), covering 44% of the world so we're still waiting for someone to have seen over 50% of the world. Quite the challenge!